Author and Academic Preparatory Program (APP) lecturer Alex Poppe’s latest book, Moxie, has received a round of positive reviews, most notably by the Massachusetts Review on May 1, 2019. Released in 2018 by Tortoise Books, Moxie follows the story of magazine model Jax whose face is disfigured after a bomb...
Kashkul, AUIS's center for culture and arts, hosted a reading with Zêdan Khelef at Urfa Gallery in Sulaimani on May 1, 2019. Khelef is an emerging Ezidi poet and currently in a micro-residency with the Center. The event featured translations of poetry in seven different languages: Arabic, English, Farsi, Kurmanji,...
The Student Services department and Students Association hosted AUIS Spirit Day on April 18, 2019 with a range of activities for the University community to show their school spirit. The day started with a presentation of the winning submissions of the Spring Photography Competition. AUIS senior Hayas Ismail won first...
The Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS) at AUIS hosted a symposium and panel discussion titled "Rebuilding the Iraqi State: Spotlight on Basra," co-hosted with the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) on Tuesday, April 16 in the AUIS Conference Hall. "Over the last few years, Iraqis have...
Students from the AUIS Engineering Department won first- and second-place prizes at the 2019 Engineering Exposition held on April 1 at Sulaimaniyah Polytechnic University. University teams from across the region were invited to participate in the exposition and competition portions of the event. Judges of the competition deliberated before choosing...
AUIS President Bruce Walker Ferguson attended an annual meeting of the Association of American International Colleges and Universities (AAICU) in Sofia, Bulgaria on April 12-13, 2019. The meeting was hosted by Dr. Steven Sullivan, President of the American University in Bulgaria, and AAICU President, Dr....
On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Department of Social Sciences at AUIS hosted a workshop for International Studies students with Zana Kurda, Director of EU Affairs at the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Mission to the EU in Brussels, Belgium. Mr. Kurda, in addition to his duties with the KRG mission, is...
Meet Karam Bahnam and Aya Khidir Abbas - the Spring 2019 Numerus Group Scholars. Announced on August 3, 2018, the Numerus Group Scholarship provides financial support to new and existing students at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). Numerus Group is an Iraqi-owned and Dubai-based investment company founded and run...
The sixth Sulaimani Forum took place March 6-7, 2019 at American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) under the title “Iraq and Its Neighbors: Toward a New Regional Order.” This year’s event featured key policymakers, stakeholders, and experts from near and far for two days of thought-provoking debates and discussions on...
A group of university students from Sri Lanka visited American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) and performed traditional cultural dances in the cafeteria on March 27, 2019. The group came to AUIS on the tail end of a trip around the Kurdistan region where they met with University students at...