Steve Jobs was the son of Syrian immigrants... Iraq has a tradition of scholarship similar to that of Iran. And while it has obviously been decimated by the rei

Steve Jobs was the son of Syrian immigrants... Iraq has a tradition of scholarship similar to that of Iran. And while it has obviously been decimated by the reign of Saddam and three devastating wars, I'm sure the spirit of it can survive one or two generations by being passed down in families. The jewish population in Europe, most of whom emigrated in 1944-1950, had also lived through 20 years of radically diminished access to education, and had to start anew from basically nothing. But their children went on to become the most productive scientific community in the history of mankind.