For Baghdad's Uprooted Girls, School Offers A Hard Haven
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BAGHDAD -- The textbooks at their new school might call their predicament "forced internal displacement," but the Iraqi girls living this phenomenon describe it in different terms.
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BAGHDAD -- He was a dashing young computer engineer. She was a shy student at his alma mater. They fell in love over lunch last year in the university cafeteria and promptly became engaged.
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BAGHDAD -- Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.
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Millions of Iraqi children were due to  start the new school year Saturday, but many stayed at home,  their parents too scared to let them venture out amid Iraq's  spiraling violence.
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Tough-love academies march on, despite criticism. TIME looks inside one school's techniques
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The scene looked more like the set of an American television game show than a conference room in Baghdad&#39;s Green Zone. On a brightly lit stage a pretty young woman plucked numbered ping-pong balls from a plexiglass drum.
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BAGHDAD -- In a city with few real refuges from sectarian violence -- not government offices, not military bases, not even mosques -- one place always emerged as a haven: a hospital .
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In much of Africa, the traditionally low status of girls puts many of them in danger and protects attackers.
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A young person's life prospects improve dramatically by getting a college education, but the country's schools have room for only one in six applicants
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BAGHDAD, March 9 -- On a pile of bricks, someone had left a pink plastic flower, a pair of glasses and a book with crisp, white pages. They glowed in the black debris of Mutanabi Street, which by Friday had become a graveyard of memories. At 9:03 a.m., a man in a rumpled brown suit walked past dark...
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni schoolteacher was hijacked as he drove to visit his sister in a predominantly Shi'ite area of Baghdad yesterday. His body was found an hour later, a grim reminder that sectarian violence persists in the capital despite a recent decline.
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At this unusual school outside Atlanta, more than half the 380 students are refugees from some 40 countries.
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NAIK NAM, Afghanistan -- Saher Gul was chalking a long division lesson on the blackboard of his two-room village school. Twenty-five boys, ages 9 to 19, were sitting cross-legged on the dirt floor. Suddenly the earthen walls and ceiling exploded and collapsed, smothering the class in a mountain of rubble.
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There was a moment when Vika Kallagova could have fled the hellish maelstrom of bullets, screams and explosions that School No. 1 had become on the first day of September.
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In many schools, girls who want to wrestle must practice with, and compete against, boys.
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The zoo has become a haven for Baghdad residents who are looking for a retreat from violence on the streets.
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SHEIKHABAD, Afghanistan -- In a small, sunlit parlor last week, 20 little girls seated on rush mats sketched a flower drawn on the blackboard. In a darker interior room, 15 slightly older girls memorized passages from the Koran, reciting aloud. Upstairs was a class of teenage girls, hidden from public view.