MobiCash starts mobile payment for AUI-S students

  by  Mahdi Abdullah Murad

    AUI-S Voice Staff Reporter

     www.auisvoice.org            

The AUIS students were the first of first in experiencing the most advanced technology.

The US Task Force for Business and Stability Operation, which focuses on the economic development in both Iraq and Afghanistan, is currently working in providing a cutting-edge technology within AUI-S that is called MobiCash.

From now on, you can transfer money, make payments, and buy minutes without leaving your home through mobile banking. You don’t need to know how much money you need for the entire day when you leave your home. Also, you do not need to be worry about the cash you carry with yourself.

Summary of the Ray Kurzweil's presentation on, "How technology will transform us?"

Ray Kurzweil- photo courtesy of google 

by Mahdi Abdullah Murad

In a presentation given by Ray Kurzweil under the title, “how technology will transform us?”,  Kurzweil addressed his views about different grounds of the technology that is experienced and will be faced in the future such us, overcoming the disease and poverty, the evolutionary process of the technology, the acceleration of the evolutionary process in both biology and technology, and the communication. Moreover, he demonstrated his predictions of how the technology will be in the future.

On Dashnye Daloye's Interview - We Need an American University!

by Mahdi Abdullah Murad
http://www.auisstudent.blogspot.com/

In an interview given to Niqash website and published in many other Kurdish media, Dashne Daloye, the student affairs director, said that AUI-S students are not used to freedom and absence of fear. While supporting Ms. Daloye in her thesis, I would like to say something more on the issue.

To Jackie Spinner: Goodbye my lovely adviser



Jackie and I

 by Mahdi Abdullah

Jackie Spinner, who was the first AUIS Voice Adviser, left AUI-S for good on Sep 1,2010. Spinner came to AUI-S last year and started working as an Adviser for the AUIS Voice Newspaper, which is the first Independent University Student Newspaper in Iraq. Although she worked at AUI-S for less than one year, Spinner could help so many AUI-S students to be professional journalists. She started a great project in the development of the media at AUI-S.

The $400

By Mahdi Abdulla Murad
www.auisstudent.blogspot.com

July 28, 2010, was one of the happiest days in my life for I got a job after almost a month of looking forward to finding it. I was happy more than anyone else because I had planned to do so many things with that small amount of money that I would get via working and to save at least some money for my next year study.

Unfortunately, my plan was completely spoiled after I opened my AUI-S account. What I saw in my e-mail was something that had never come to my mind before.

AUI-S, Unique Teaching &Learning Institution in Iraq \ Kurdistan-Sulaimani

By Mahdi Abdullah Murad
“About a month ago, while traveling in northern Iraq, I happened to visit in the same afternoon what my co-traveler Reuel Gerecht called “the best thing I’ve seen in the Middle East in 25 years,” as well as traces of the worst thing that happened there over the same period of time. Those two things are, respectively, the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani and the memorial erected in Halabja, where some 5,000 Kurds were killed with chemical weapons.” ABE GREENWALD
While backing what Mr. Greenwald says in his article, I would like to added my feeling about AUI-S.

AUI-S receives accreditation from American liberal arts academy

                                                       By Mahdi Abdullah Murad

AUI-S Voice Staff Reporter

http://www.auisvoice.org/

‘We are now on an equal status with them,’ John Agresto

AUI-S passed one of the most significant moments in its history after it was accredited by the American Academy for Liberal Education, a national accrediting body certified by the U.S. Department of Education.

Special party full of activities ends long academic year

By Mahdi Abdulla Murad

AUI-S Voice Staff Reporter

www.auisvoice.org

As a farewell to the academic year, AUI-S threw a party for students May 27 at Oscar Hall in Sulaimani.

Chancellor leaves with best wishes to his University

By Mahdi Abdulla Murad

AUIS Voice Staff Reporter

www.auisvoice.org

Joshua Mitchell, the acting chancellor of AUI-S, will leave AUI-S for good at the end of this semester. Mitchell said that many wonderful events happened at AUI-S during the nearly two years that he has been the top campus administrator at the University.