Feature: Iraqi college students embrace Chinese language as ties between Baghdad and Beijing deepen


By Jamal

BAGHDAD, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- In a classroom at the University of Baghdad's College of Languages, over a dozen students traced the graceful strokes of Chinese characters carefully on an interactive board.

Leading the class is Professor Hanan Mikhael, a veteran educator in her 50s who spent six years in Shanghai decades ago studying electrical engineering while taking intensive Chinese language courses.

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