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Modernizing Higher Education Systems - From Delaware to Basra
Monday, December 2, 2019
Maher Talib Abdulzahra Al Shamkhani serves as Director of both the Continuing Education Center (CEC) and the Career Development Center (CDC), as well as a lecturer, at Southern Technical University in Basra, Iraq. In 2019, he traveled to the U.S. as a participant of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), focusing on academic and industry partnerships in the oil and gas sector....
Learn moreGetting Entrepreneurial – Lessons Learned and Done
Thursday, November 7, 2019
There is a popular phrase in China that says seeing once is better than hearing one hundred times. Similarly, in the U.S., people believe doing is by far better than seeing. During my expereince visiting the US as part of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), everyone I had a chance to speak with– be it a taxi driver or a bartender, professor, student, or stranger...
Learn moreTips for Emerging Women Leaders from the 6th Annual Turkish American Youth Leadership Conference
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
I recently spoke at the 6th Annual Turkish American Youth Leadership Conference, organized by the Turkish Coalition of America on career development and women’s leadership in traditionally male-dominates fields such as security and politics.I had the opportunity to speak on a panel alongside our moderator, Ilayda Aydin, a political science student at George Mason University. Other panelists...
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