Free to surf the Web, a university professor gleefully searches for news from afar.
Let's hope he's reading blogs as well.
In a small dusty classroom, dirty with mold but brightened by a red plastic flower in a vase, English teacher Azhar Hashim tells a student practicing the words "I'm from Iraq," to raise his voice when he says that.[...]
"We all have to be proud of our country," she says, her black dress stained white with chalk.
In the next room, Thanaa Mohamed asks her students to describe the rights of Iraqi citizens. "Equality and freedom," answers 12-year-old Jiwan Arasin.
"Who can define equality?" Mohamed asks. "All people were born free," answers Esraa Jabbar.
And freedom? "To express your opinion freely," answers Walid Khalid.
"We have some daily hardships," Majid said. Yet despite that, "our life is much better than compared to Saddam time."
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