"you should be the first to know."

"Jeff Jarvis and this Wall Street Journal article by Yochi Dreazen featuring my blog have outed my secret. I have been admitted to the new graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York. Jeff, my blogdad and mentor, convinced me a couple of months ago to join the school, where he will be teaching interactive journalism. This is not your traditional journalism program. In fact, Jeff believes that this new batch of graduates (from diverse international backgrounds) will help save and change the face of journalism as we know it today.

I have been reluctant to change careers, but quite frankly there is nothing that I can add to dentistry in Iraq, whereas the field of Iraqi online and print journalism is lacking in many aspects, and I hope to contribute to filling that gap. Also, living and studying in New York city is a more like a dream to me that is closer to coming true."
Healing Iraq