Last March when teachers and students transitioned to remote instruction, Iraqi instructor Mohammad Hameed and his students in the Arbat Refugee Camp in the Iraqi Kurdistan region weren’t caught off guard. While the pandemic and the sudden shutdown of schools provoked fear, the teachers at this remote refugee camp in northern Iraq weren’t worried about […]
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Javeria Salman is the digital news producer. Prior to joining The Hechinger Report, she worked as an editor and reporter at The East Carolinian, an independent college newspaper in eastern North Carolina, where she was recognized by the North Carolina College Media Association for her reporting and opinion writing. Javeria spent a decade working on various media teams and youth leadership programs with non-profit Muslim American organizations. She graduated from East Carolina University with a B.S. in communication and a concentration in journalism. Javeria has lived in three other countries, five U.S. states and too many cities to count, and grew up constantly on the move. When she's not traveling, she's either reading the news, listening to a podcast about news or nerding out over journalism history.
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