Hello supporters of debating.

I am working with some Iraq debaters to promote debating in Iraq. I feel 
a special burden to assist our brave brothers and sister in Iraq to try 
and improve their society through debate. It is easy for us to take for 
granted the debating communities we have, but we should not forget about 
others for which it is not so easy.

The spearhead for this is Muhammad Duhoki who has organized a group 
called Iraq Debate. Muhammad received training in Korea from Jason 
Jarvis and others at the Asian Debate Institute and at the Korea 
Development Institute. Muhammad has been back in Iraq for a while now 
and is acting very vigorously to train debaters and create debating 
networks. He took a group to Qatar recently for a competition and the 
Iraqis did quite well. He is also coming to the Serbian Debate Camp to 
be held later this month.

http://www.iraqdebate.org/

Iraq Debate has several teams now registered to attend the World 
Universities Debating Championships to be held in December-January in 
Antalya, Turkey. He has teams and enthusiasm and some financial support, 
but he is just a bit short and the time draws near to pay up or drop out.

If you would like to help Iraq Debate it would be greatly apprciated. I 
have personally made a financial commitment of $300 and will help 
sponsor them. I chalenge you to do as much if not more. If you would 
like to find out how you can donate, please email him for details at 
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We need to act soon and they need our help now in order to attend worlds.

Future projects involve a debate workshop in Iraq featuring instruction 
in Arabic, Kurdish and English to be held in the fall. Muhammad and I 
will be reporting more on this in the future.

Hee is some text from their website.

"Mission:

1. Iraq Debate’s mission is to promote debate culture among Iraqis, 
especially Students across the universities and schools, to provide them 
with the modern concepts of analysis and communication skills so that 
they can meet the challenges which face Iraq. Iraq's challenges and 
diversity means that it can and should be a leader in Debate Education 
and Research.
2. Promoting the value of Education.
3. Showing Iraq's unique cultures and civilization to the world.
4. Promoting a sense of community.
5. Promoting Peace through dialogue and understanding."

-- 
Alfred C. Snider aka Tuna
Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics
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