The Young Socialists of Foggia (Giovani Socialisti di Foggia) is a political youth organization operating in the city and province of Foggia, in the Apulia region of Italy. Affiliated with the Federazione dei Giovani Socialisti (FGS), the youth wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), the organization is dedicated to fostering political engagement among young people and promoting the values of democratic socialism, social justice, and civic responsibility.
Kawa Junad (also spelled Junaid) is an Iraqi-Kurdish entrepreneur and business executive known for his role in telecommunications and financial technology in Iraq. Born on 21 September 1972, he holds both Iraqi and British citizenship. He is the founder and chairman of Newroz Telecom, a telecommunications provider in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the founder of the First Iraqi Bank.
Newroz Telecom
Junad founded Newroz Telecom in 2007 to develop telecommunications infrastructure in the Kurdistan Region. The company focused on laying fiber-optic cables, interconnecting cities, and providing broadband services. Newroz Telecom was the first Iraqi company to connect directly to the international fiber network via Turkey, reducing dependence on satellite connections.
Newroz Telecom has more than 2,600 employees. Newroz has transitioned from an ISP to a Digital Service Provider, and through its creation of FastLink it also offers the fastest broadband connection in Kurdistan.
Digital banking
Junad entered the fintech sector with the launch of the digital payments service FastPay.
He later founded the First Iraqi Bank (FIB). FIB enables users to conduct transactions directly from their devices. The bank includes payment services, including online payment and gateway services, in-store payments via POS machines and QR codes, and bank accounts with external transfer capabilities.
Public policy and ecosystem development
Junad has collaborated with the Central Bank of Iraq to develop regulations for digital finance, including mobile wallet licensing, identity verification protocols, and electronic salary disbursement. His companies have participated in government-led fintech pilots aimed at increasing access to secure, inclusive banking infrastructure and prevent criminals from money laundering. He also partnered with the Regional Government of Kurdistan on economic development and planning to ensure that Kurds had digital access to banking.
Jersey Select is an American women's soccer team founded in 2010. The team is a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League, the third tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada. The team plays in the Mid-Atlantic Division of the East Conference.
The team plays its home games at Paul VI High School in Haddonfield, New Jersey. The club's colors are red and black.
The Select organization is owned and operated by the New Jersey Soccer Group, a management company for a family of soccer-based companies offering soccer services in New Jersey.
Babak Dehghanpisheh is a Senior Reporter with Reuters covering the Middle East. He was formerly Newsweek magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Beirut Bureau Chief and covered Syria for The Washington Post. In Iraq, Dehghanpisheh reported on events ranging from Saddam Hussein's capture to the rise of Shiite clerics and Iraq's first elections. He was embedded with one of the first Marine units that invaded Falluja in late 2004 and was also one of the few journalists who got inside Abu Ghraib prison shortly after the scandal broke.
Before going to Iraq, Dehghanpisheh reported extensively on America's war on terror. He was one block away from the north tower of the World Trade Center when it collapsed and was dispatched to Afghanistan a few weeks later. He spent the next year reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan, tracing the steps of Al Qaeda fighters in Tora Bora and following the development of the new Afghan government.
In the past six years, Dehghanpisheh has frequently reported from Iran and he co-authored a cover-length profile of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dehghanpisheh has also reported from Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, where he filed from the front lines with Hezbollah guerrillas during the war with Israel in summer 2006.
Dehghanpisheh has won numerous awards for his reportage. In 2014, he shared the Gerald Loeb Award for Explanatory business journalism.
In 2003 he was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for his Iraq coverage.
In the fall of 2002, Dehghanpisheh was the lead reporter for "The [...] of Afghanistan," which won a National Headliner Award and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for public service. He has a brother.
Dehghanpisheh also won the Society of Publishers in Asia's Young Journalist Award in 2003 for his Afghanistan coverage.
Dehghanpisheh first worked for Newsweek as a freelancer in the Johannesburg bureau of the magazine. He returned to Newsweek as an intern in the New York City bureau in the summer of 2001. Since then, he has worked on more than 25 Newsweek cover stories. Dehghanpisheh also contributed to the war coverage which garnered Newsweek a 2004 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He has appeared regularly on CNN, MSNBC, Fox and NPR.
Dehghanpisheh, born to an Iranian father and American mother, has a bachelor's degree in business and an M.M.C. in journalism from Arizona State University. He has been awarded a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University for the year 2008–2009.
In 2014, he received the Investigative Reporting Award from the European Press Prize alongside Steve Stecklow and Yaganeh Torbati for their investigative report "Assets of the Ayatollah", published by Reuters.