Team Qatar
United States | 2009
In September 2008, five teenagers – a Qatari, an Iraqi, a Syrian-Armenian, a Pakistani, and an Iranian – journeyed from Washington, DC to the Middle East to join teens from around the world in an intensely competitive if somewhat arcane annual ritual: the World Schools Debating Championships. Well aware that their region is associated, in Western minds, with oil, money, and jihad, they are determ…
