IIE President and CEO Allan E. Goodman, while enroute to Ebril, tells a story about an interesting flight he shared with an Iranian boxer. 

"Tomorrow the boxer and friend will be back in Teheran. They will be going there with some new impressions of Americans and how they respond to people they don't even know. I think they also got the idea that we are an open society and a nation that is really made up of many immigrants. And our brief encounter made me wish we had many other ways than an airplane oven to get to know each other better," Goodman writes in IIE’s Opening Minds blog. 

Read the full blog post: www.iie.org/Blog/2013/July/AEG-Erbil.