Iraq's Intellectual Elite Continues to Flee the Country
As the country continues to bound from one crisis to the next, its most educated citizens are succeeding in their new homes.
by Peter Schwartzstein
Aug 18, 2017
2 minutes
It’s been 12 years since Omar Hassan Majed fled Baghdad, but it sometimes feels as if he never left home.
Hustling from room to room at his oncology clinic in Amman, Jordan, he jokes with the Iraqi nursing staff and drinks tea with the resident
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