Product Description: In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English...read more

In an inspirational, often poignant account, a former Rhodes scholar describes his semester-long experiences of teaching U.S. history and English in Iraqi Kurdistan, offering firsthand portraits of the Kurdish people, his efforts to illuminate the American way, and his personal re-examination of American ideals. 35,000 first printing.