Hope in a classroom in Kurdistan

Miami Herald, Book Review

Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf of Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq

September 4, 2007

With security the overriding if not exclusive concern of U.S. forces in Iraq today, the irony is that a visit to the country a few years hence might yield little cultural indication of a past American presence. Ian Klaus is out to ensure otherwise. For much of 2005, he could be found in ``a classroom in Kurdistan -- a place where secularism had a strong toehold and virtual national autonomy had been established for nearly a decade and a half.'' Full Text