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Jim West, founder and CEO of TopCyberPro.com, spoke at Western Governors University’s 2026 Atlanta commencement in Duluth, Georgia, then received his master’s degree on stage.

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Laith Yousif has released a memoir, From Baghdad to Brooklyn: An Ordinary Journey Through Extraordinary Times, about leaving Iraq, surviving 9/11 and navigating asylum in the U.S. The book aims to recast refugees as full human beings shaped by…

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Rebecca I. Martinez Johnson, a bilingual victim advocate and investigator with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, has expanded her public service role with an appointment to the North Carolina Military Affairs Commission.

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The Rock Hill Turner Foundation will hold its second annual fundraising event on Sept. 19 in Columbia, Maryland, to support STEM education and environmental grants, scholarships and resources.

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The UN SDG Action Campaign has picked nine finalists from more than 7,000 applications in 170 countries for the 2026 Heroes of Tomorrow awards.

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A new independent review of Pedro Israel Orta’s whistleblower memoir, The Broken Whistle, places the book alongside Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record and Bill Browder’s Red Notice.

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A new visual case-study series built from Pedro Israel Orta’s memoir looks at how CIA leadership, culture, and oversight shaped performance in Baghdad, Afghanistan, and internal whistleblower cases.

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Kayeh AI has named Dana Eyre, PhD, a former UN policy advisor and Hoover Institution visiting scholar, as an advisor to help civic and international groups use its consensus platform in polarized settings.

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New research from the University of Sharjah details how Syrian archaeologists moved about 30,000 museum objects out of the Deir ez-Zor Museum in 2014 and 2015 as ISIS threatened to overrun the city.

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Royal Canadian International Community has partnered with Rosedale International Education to bring the Ontario Secondary School Diploma to Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, starting with a planned inaugural cohort in 2027-28. The move keeps students at RCIC…

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Aras Jaff’s new book, A Journey Towards Light, uses memoir and fiction to follow a Kurdish schoolboy through the Iran-Iraq War, the Anfal campaign, the 1991 uprising and displacement in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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A new book by George Mason University’s Lisa Gilman argues that refugees are too often reduced to statistics and stereotypes.

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Third Act Georgia and Indivisible Cobb will host a public forum in Marietta on Aug. 27 where veterans, immigrants, civil servants and others will share how recent government actions have altered their lives.

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Larisa B. Miller’s career spans Pennsylvania state government, Abu Dhabi royal-family advisory work, and leadership of Phoenix Global and Provenance Family Advisory.

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A.J. Woodruff has published Stardust Love & Betrayal: Part One Forbidden Fruit, a mature sci-fi spy novel now available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon.

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The Hajji Baba Club selected Cosima Stewart and Adela Foo as its 2026–2027 Research Fellows to support original scholarship on carpets and textiles.

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Republican nominee David Flippo drew a packed crowd Saturday in Douglas County with support from Rep. Jim Jordan, as Nevada Republicans rallied behind Flippo’s bid for the state’s 2nd Congressional District ahead of November.

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Physician and former Army leader Jess Bunin, MD, says healthcare teams can’t be fixed from the outside in. Her new book connects burnout, trust and authentic leadership as U.S. physicians continue to face high stress and turnover.

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Precious Time Child Development Center is spotlighting founder and CEO Peymaneh Rothstein’s personal journey from wartime childhood in Iran to building a Richmond-area childcare network.

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Physician, educator and military veteran Dr. Jess Bunin has been named a 2026 Inspiring Women Award recipient in Los Angeles.