Just World Podcasts
Just World Podcasts is an innovative podcast series on international affairs. In October 2025, we launched a new series titled "Gaza & the World." This series of public conversations hosted by Just World Ed president Helena Cobban explores the many intersections of the continuing Gaza crisis and the current deep shifts in the global balance.
JWP is run by the non-profit foundation Just World Educational.
Just World Podcasts
Conversation with Taif Jany, graduate of the Iraqi Student Project
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Helena Cobban
From 2007 through 2012, American peace activists Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak ran an innovative project in Damascus, Syria, to provide mentoring to some of the many young Iraqis who had then found refuge in Syria from the terrible conflicts then raging inside US-occupied Iraq... to prepare them to win entry to-- and succeed at-- four-year colleges around the U.S. In May 2016, many of the 60-plus graduates of this mentoring program gathered in Chicago for a reunion. Helena Cobban, the President of Just World Educational, was lucky enough to invited along. This is the first of two interviews she conducted there with graduates of the program.
