{"id":28752,"date":"2014-03-17T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=28752"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:25:38","slug":"iraqi-takes-a-leading-role-on-wright-state-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/17\/iraqi-takes-a-leading-role-on-wright-state-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi takes a leading role on Wright State campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28284\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/02\/28\/shadow-of-death\/fady-al-banna-2984-057\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28284\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28284\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/02\/Fady-Al-Banna-2984-057-260x175.jpg\" alt=\"Fady Al-Banna\" width=\"260\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fady Al-Banna is thriving as a student leader and finance major at Wright State, just a few years after his family fled his native Iraq.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A young man whose family left the violent turmoil of Iraq has become a campus leader at a southwestern Ohio college with a fast-growing international student population.<\/p>\n<p>Fady Al-Banna, a 23-year-old senior, is the director of international affairs for student government at Wright State University. He also is on a dean of students advisory board.<\/p>\n<p>New international students at Wright State increased by 42 percent last fall to 1,477, the school said.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Banna said he enjoys the diversity of Wright State and appreciates the efforts to recruit students from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2014\/03\/15\/iraqi-takes-a-leading-role-on-campus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Dispatch<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt A young man whose family left the violent turmoil of Iraq has become a campus leader at a southwestern Ohio college with a fast-growing international student population. Fady Al-Banna, a 23-year-old senior, is the director of international affairs for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/17\/iraqi-takes-a-leading-role-on-wright-state-campus\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":28284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28754,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28752\/revisions\/28754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}