Students from the village were harassed in Mosul University; many female students were forced to wear Islamic dress for fear of being attacked.
He graduated in Medicine from Mosul University, and established a successful practice in Amman.
Iman al-Munim Yunis, director of the translation department at Mosul University, said someone recently slipped a note under her door.
Before becoming governor, Mr. Kashmoula had been a professor of agriculture at Mosul University.
I was invited to join the party in 1976, when I was doing my compulsory military service after earning my first degree at Mosul University.
It has been reported that Muslim students beat up a Christian student at Mosul University in response to the fatwa on the same day.
Prior to his journalism, he had served as an anatomy professor at Mosul University, and a Kurdish translator.
Halla Mukdad, a professor of economics and business administration at Mosul University, said she could not leave her home.
Near Mosul University, insurgents chased down two vehicles used by the Iraqi National Guard and set fire to them.
Mr. Haitham, wiry and soft-spoken, with sensitive eyes, enrolled at Mosul University but transferred to be closer to his family.