The Career Development Centre CDC at the University of Zakho is pleased to inform its scholars that, the AMIDEAST Organisation is going to hold a seminar on the 27th of October 2022 on how to apply for  the Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program for 2023. 

The mentioned program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, this program is a ten-week, non-degree professional and faculty development program which sends fifteen junior Iraqi scholars to the United States. 

Eligible Applicants must: 

• Be Iraqi citizens and residents of Iraq now and 

throughout the application process. 

• Possess high proficiency in written and oral English (recommended minimum TOEFL score of 500). 

Be full-time Iraqi university faculty members who possess, at a minimum, a master's degree and at least three years of university-level teaching experience or a PhD and no more than eight years of teaching experience. 

• Be committed to classroom teaching and desire to strengthen teaching and leadership skills. 

• Not have applied or be planning to apply for a U.S. green card or asylum status. 

• Not be dual citizens of the U.S. and Iraq.

• Be able to travel to and remain in the U.S. during the dedicated grant period of June through September 2023. 

Place: the presidency of the University of Zakho,  third floor,  room number 69. 

Time: 10:30 A.M.