The Career Development Centre CDC at the University of Zakho is pleased to inform its scholars that,  the USA embassy in Baghdad announces the opening of 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 that sends fifteen junior Iraqi scholars to the United States.

Grantees will be selected from the following disciplines: Engineering, Science, and Technology, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and Linguistics.

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 Ph.D. 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 been 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.

Deadline: December 1st, 2022

To apply, visit: https://apply.ile.org/jfdp/