Hi everybody,
My name is Sarah Albadry, I'm a student in the fourth grade, I have been a fan of the bcmf for a long time, but this is my first participation.
Recently I entered a bbc world service competion that was concecrned with problems that young people face in the middle east.I wrote a piece about the problems that we ,as students in baghdad, face in times like these including the extensive brain drainage from the university, the difficulties and dangers that both professors and students face,and even the risks of the journey from our houses to the college.
The guys at bbc liked my story and Iwon the competion, and they are now offering me the professional support to put the story on air on bbc world service radio.As the story is about all of us,i want to include you guys and your opinions in the program.
So if you'd like 42 million listeners of bbc world to hear your voice and your story,please send me anything you think is relevant to the subject, wethere texts,audios,videos or anything you think will be useful,and I will pass it on to the bbc producers.
I am in Amman right now,and will be doing the work from here, but i will be very grateful for anything you can send, and for those of you in amman who are interested I can arrange that you will be interviewed by the bbc directly.

I hope that together we can produce a great show, and attract some of the world's attention to our problems.
I will be waiting to hear from you.



Sarah.

hi Sarah,
it is nice to have u in the bcmf , we hope to have a great time with u.
i'm happu to read that u 've taken an active role in sending our voice so that the world could hear our problems.
GOD bless u.
and keep on the good work.

ali

This is great, I wish you success.

I'm sure you'll be telling them about the problem of our diplomas, and how we're oppressed in our own country.

I have a personal story about how Iraqis are treated in the airports of other Arabic countries, if you see it interesting and relevant, let me know.

I will publish it on my blog anyway in the few coming days.

Welcome to the family of BCMF, and good luck with your work.

Hi Dr. Sarah
welcome to the BCMF>:D<
Well, i think we all agree that we have soo much to say ,
but also so much little to do , am glad to help in this but i am not sure in which way...
am available in amman now , if u needed anything

Hey Sarah..

This seems really interesting..
I'm staying in Amman for now.. and I will be glad to help u Sarah
I'll send u my email to stay in touch and to see how I can help u..
The least we can do is talking about the problems of our country and let the world know what we're suffering from and that we're not happy with it..
I just hope it's real this time.. not like the last project "Iraq study".. we contacted them and they promised us & then they didn't call for us!!!

Good for u dear,
I wish u all the best

Congratulations for winning the BBC competetion and welcome to the BCMF

As our members said we would like the world to hear our stories to have an idea about the suffering of Iraqi people in general...

Quite impressing Sarah I salute you and wish you get enought time to tell your story on BBC World

I'm in Amman too and if there's anything I can do let me know.

Needless to say, there are countless problems and disappointing facts I can write about regarding this subject but here's the latest ones:

- the Jordanian authorities had activated a new policy that will effect Iraqi students willing to study in Jordan, which is that they won't recognize any certificate issued in Iraq as of 2007 (not quite sure which year) because and I hereby quote "they won't be able to verify the authenticity and genuineness of these certificates on account of the messy situation in Iraq"...

-In addition, I've been hearing that UNESCO and the British GMC are considering de-recognizing the Iraqi Medical Schools which if true would deny all Iraqi medical graduates completing their postgraduate studies and training in other countries..

-Moreover, there's a sadly-funny personal account I can mention here just to add some sense of irony to the drama, lately I've been accepted to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland- Medical University of Bahrain (the RCSI opened this campus in 2004) a very good medical school.
And after spending alot of time, effort, and money for the application process and just as I thought that I reached the end of the journey I learnt that I, as an Iraqi citizen, can't get a visa to Bahrain in order to go there and enroll !!!!
And what is killing me is that I have what it takes academically and financially but just because I hold an Iraqi passport I'm simply unacceptable

I hope that you could mention these 3 stories to the folks at BBC and if they liked it I would be willing to come and tell them more..

Take care,

Mohammed Hatem

Hi Sarah,

Good work and i salute you for your hard work,
i will be happy to help you if you needed any help

God Bless you,
tc

Hi everyone
I was so happy to see that many of you are intretested and willing to help.
I have spoken to the BBC producer ,and she is coming from the uk to amman in about three weeks to start work on the project.so for those of you who will be available in three weeks time ,I will keep you posted with the latest developments and details and hopefully we'll be working together soon.
In the mean time keep on sending your ideas.

Thanx alot
Sarah

Hi Sarah am in Amman too if you want me to help just ask



Farah Baha

hi sarah .......i just want to know when the dead line of this compition? because i am ready to share not only me but with my friends [ doctors who still in iraq and students in iraq and out of iraq] we have the ability to share with our videos and our articles and our real stories with evedince.....

cool, i admire active people let me know if u need help with sth

Hi everyone
I just wanted to let you know that the BBC crew are coming to amman on the 8th of september,and we will probably start work on the ninth.
So whoever is intrested is more than welcomed to send me an email containing the details of what they want to talk about( eg.personal stories about leaving our college and not getting a place at any other university, that sort of thing...)
I'll be waiting to hear from you and working out the details.
Thanx alot
Sarah Muthanna