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AGATHA · Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 45 Location: DAMMAM

I've heard their internet system and computers are serious garbage.
My buddy says the guys who teach English are at the bottom of the barrel
The guys at the top teach''sociology''

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

How about the students? the courses? Is there any redeeming thing to this job?

There are many teachers who are interested more in teaching than the social life. (no criticism meant... just that many older teachers would avoid Dubai because of no interest in the lifestyle) I have had jobs where the working and living conditions were not great, but the students made it tolerable for a year or two.

Do at least the students appreciate you?

VS

Rennenkampf · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 91 Location: Hail

The university internet system is complete,absolute,unmitigated rubbish.
Otherwise,this is a wonderful uplifting experience especially for nature lovers and hikers.

mistral · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 93 Location: Herat Afghanistan

Is the place still run by the terrible twins? I hear the place is a little more professional than when it started.

Sgt Killjoy · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 438

If I was teaching in Iraq, the internet would be the least of my worries and I would figure that the internet would be rubbish.

stoth1972 · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject:

Here are some comments from w/in Iraq. The experiences she relays about the uni are 2nd hand, but her experiences in Iraq are 1st hand:

running dog · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 37

Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is "classism"?

stoth1972 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

Though I'm quoting someone else, I'm going to assume she means there's discrimination towards the lower social classes...something that is pandemic in many nations of the region.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Hey Stoth... isn't 'pandemic' overstating it just a bit? Laughing

But, I know what you mean, in spite of the equality stressed in the Quran, Arab society is very class conscious.

VS

stoth1972 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

I don't know if it's overstating, VS...perhaps it's worse in the nations of the region with a bigger gap between rich and poor. It's not often I get to serve as a dictionary on this board. Confused

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

These day they are constantly talking about the flu becoming a pandemic problem... meaning spread over much of the world. I would have used the term 'epidemic' instead... but we pick nits... eh? Cool

But, I find that the instances of snobbery are not completely a matter of rich/poor... it is geographic - even a rich Egyptian is 'just' an Egyptian to a lower middle-class Palestinian... to pick an example out of the air. It is city/rural... and likely tribal based...

And then again, probably human nature... so perhaps pandemic is right after all...

VS

NadiaK · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 206

Endemic perhaps? As in "[a disease] which is constantly present in a given area"?

running dog · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 37

You Yanks take things too seriously. I was hoping someone would come up with a definition something like: "Classism": Websters; an irrational dislike or prejudice against someone who's got too much class.

mouse5 · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 142

I thought this thread was about the university in erbil?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

No. This thread is about problems people have inside their own heads when too many bad chemicals build up.