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Arabic instructor finds peace after discrimination, violence in Iraq

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Thunderbird instructor Firdos Jawad, Ph.D. Thunderbird Arabic instructor Firdos Jawad, Ph.D., survived gender discrimination, political persecution and even gunshot wounds in Iraq. After attempts to resettle in Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey, she and her family eventually came to the United States. Dr. Jawad says her first “breath of peace” came on May 13, 2009, when she arrived in Phoenix, Arizona. | Podcast: Breathing Peace (9:07)