lmmaloney: All Comments

I was pleased to hear the interview featured this morning on NPR. Besides Baghdad College, the high school, the Jesuits also ran Al Hikma University. My late husband was a volunteer teacher there 1966-67. After a year back in Canada, he returned to Al-Hikma in the fall of 1968, intending to remain for the rest of his career. But within two months the "Americans" were expelled by the Ba'athist government and the campus(es) seized.
While it operated, in those last years of increasing tension at least, Al-Hikma (and presumably Baghdad College as well) was the only institution open to Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
During his first year, my husband shared an office with a young German. Our families remain close friends, and I know that he and his wife have devoted themselves ever since to the welfare of Christians in Iraq.