AUI-S Asks Students not to Submit Tuitions at Warka Bank

Amongst news of bank's bankruptcy, AUI-S finance offices asks students not to submit their tuition payments at Al-Warka bank, and an official from the bank says they have no problems. Zinya Kazzaz, from AUI-S finances offices, sent out an e-mail...

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Dr. John Agresto: The Engineering major starts in Spring semester

Dr. John Agresto, the provost of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, held a press conference announcing the opening of a new major, engineering major. Dr. Agresto told Student Voice that they have not decided yet whether it will be Petroleum...

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FLASH..FLASH...FLASH: Engineering Major Opened at AUI-S

We are glad to announce that the Petroleum Engineering major was opened by American University of Iraq-Sulaimani today. That is the news we have got so far. We are expecting Dr. John Agresto, AUI-S provost, to hold a press conference a short...

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Dashnye Daloye: AUI-S Students are not Familiar with Freedom

Dashnye Daloye, the director of Student Affairs office of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, is quoted to be saying that AUI-S students are not familiar with freedom. "Students are not familiar with freedom, absence of fear, criticism and dialogue,...

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My U.S. Memoir: First Part

by Ayoush Al-Zaidy We have come to the United States as a group of 50 Iraqi undergraduate students, as part of an exchange program that lasts for six weeks. Twenty five students are studying at the University of Massachusetts and 25 of us were at Virginia...

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Important Dates for AUI-S Students

According to the Academic calendar published on AUI-S website, summer classes will end only one day before Ramadan Eid on Septermber 9, 2010....

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The Accreditation!!!

by Pola Kamal This piece of writing is not an attempt to defame AUI-S reputation rather to make it strong and even more receptive. This piece of writing tells why the full accreditation that was given to AUI-S recently is not going to benefit AUI-S...

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Simple and Straight: Examining the Red Lines

by Shallaw Fatah Don’t be surprised if I say, sometimes, the root of a deformed image of an institution stems from rumour. Some people don’t dare to write about what they think so then they will form a story, claiming that they can’t write because...

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In Praise of Liberal Arts Education...

By Danar Rashid We, humans, are adapted to criticize others while we are drawn in our errors. Blaming the others is the best way to hide our dormancy and to fulfill the excuses. However, this is not an attack to criticism and freedom of speech, but...

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Well Done Dr. Agresto!

Dr. John Agresto, AUI-S Provost Dr. John Agresto, the provost of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani was the first one to congratulate Student Voice blog. He told us that he was delighted to see a brave blog defending student rights without any...

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The $400

By Mahdi Abdullah Murad July 28, 2010, was one of the happiest days in my life for I got a job after almost a month of looking forward to finding it. I was happy more than any one else because I had planned to do so many things with that small amount...

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AUI-S Students are Good at Keeping Secrets...

By Hemn Muhammed May be most of you did not hear anything about Kanan Makiya’s Republic of Fear. In this book the author analyzes the situation that Iraqis had during Saddam Hussein’s regime. It was an era when every one was afraid of every one,...

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Freedom of Speech

by Dana Jaf I am well aware of the fact that the country I am writing in doesn’t have a constitution with a first amendment in it. The same hurting fact applies to my university, because it is the “American University” but wait for it: “of Iraq-Sulaimani”....

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Warm Greetings

The voice of AUI-S students is not heard by anyone inside and outside the university. The students are the lastto know about the decisions made and the last to have a say on them. We want to put an end to t...

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