Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy frequents the world's trouble spots to give the voiceless a global hearing.

Tagged: Afghanistan, alumni, filmmaking, International Initiative, Iraq, Arts & Creativity, International Issues, Humanities & Sciences

AS A MARINE and entrepreneur, Douglas Stone, Sloan '92, has never shied away from risk. But taking over the U.S. military's detainee detention system in Iraq in April 2007 was a big one. The prison system, which holds about 22,000 detainees, was known to most Americans primarily for the horrifying treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

Tagged: alumni, Iraq, International Issues, Business

An Army terrorism expert now at Stanford's Hoover Institution has released 85 pages of once-secret documents that provide an insider's account of how Iranian military and Lebanese Hezbollah forces train Iraqi Shiite militants to kill U.S. soldiers.

Tagged: Hoover Institution, Iran, Iraq, terrorism, International Issues

After five years of storage in a Baghdad home and a U.S. government facility, millions of records from Saddam Hussein's regime may soon be available for review at the Hoover Institution.

Tagged: Hoover Institution, Iraq, International Issues

Stanford professor of emergency medicine, Robert Norris, is part of an effort to set up a formal emergency medicine training program for Iraqi health professionals for the first time in that nation's history.

Tagged: Iraq, Human Health, International Issues, Medicine