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Spring 2007.Pub Fulbrighter The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational CHECK OUT The Fulbright Program is Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State WHAT’S NEW: SPRING 2007 • Happenings at Headquarters (page 2) Re-Entry Workshop is a Success! • Student Updates (page 2-4) • Re-entry Work- shop Photos (page 5-7) • Kantara: An Interview by Slim Menzli (page 8-9) • Cultural Spot- light: Born into Bedouin (page 9- 10) • Summer Plans Approximately seventy-five Fulbright and Israeli-Arab AMIDEAST Fulbright Program Officers Stephanie (page 11) Scholarship grantees arrived at Washington, D.C. on D’Souza and Elisa O’Keefe facilitated the sessions, March 8, 2007 to attend the annual Re-entry which began with a warm introduction to the • Emergency Workshop, which is designed to prepare students for workshop and presented our opening speakers: Kate the difficulties they may experience when they return to Archambault, Vice President of Exchange Programs at Safety Tips (page their prospective home countries. AMIDEAST and John Sedlins, the Branch Chief, at the 11) U.S. Department of State’s Office of Academic The evening began on Thursday with a moonlight Exchange Programs for the Near East, North Africa, Monument Bus tour, and with a couple of unexpected and South and Central Asia. We also had the ALSO INSIDE delays and the patience of a number of students, opportunity to welcome Amal Salah, from the THIS ISSUE: continued the next phase of the journey on Friday night. Fulbright Egyptian Commission, who met with For most, it was their first chance to explore students and assisted with the Workshop. Washington, D.C. and get to know the AMIDEAST staff and their fellow Fulbrighters from the Middle East and Later in the afternoon, Deborah Hefferson, an AMIDEAST/HQ 2 North Africa. independent consultant and professional moderator, gave a presentation on reverse cultural shock and en- Early next morning, we gathered for breakfast with Student Updates 2-4 representatives from the U.S. State Department. Story continues on page 4 Please remember that if you want to request As Graduation Nears... permission for Academic Training, you must If you need to request a transfer of your DS-2019 submit a request to your AMIDEAST advisor sponsorship to your university to complete the at least six weeks before you complete your original academic program for which you were given degree. Academic Training requests will only be your Fulbright grant, or to begin a second, higher considered for exceptional students who have degree program, you must also submit a request to been offered full-time employment directly related your AMIDEAST advisor at least six weeks in to their field of study for a period of up to twelve advance. You should submit a letter written by you, months. In order to request Academic Training a letter from your academic advisor, and a letter you must submit a letter from your prospective from the university office responsible for issuing employer, one from your academic advisor, and immigration documents. one written by you. PAGE 2 Happenings at Headquarters AMIDEAST/HQ added a couple new faces to the He assisted with the placement and supervision of Fulbright Department. However, we also had to say Fulbright recipients from Morocco, Lebanon, and good-bye to some of our former staff as they Tunisia, and for the Israeli-Arab Scholarship explore other opportunities. Good luck! Program. He also supported and developed various projects for the Fulbright Alumni Program. Manuel Tempe Carlton, Program Assistant, recently now works with AMIDEAST in the Exchange joined AMIDEAST in February 2007. Tempe has Programs Department on the administration of extensive experience abroad, having studied for a two State Department funded Middle East year in France and Italy and a summer in Germany, Partnership Initiative (MEPI) grants. and having worked for a few months in Spain. Upon completing her Bachelor’s degree in Prior to AMIDEAST, Manuel was a research International and Area Studies from the University assistant for the Director of International Affairs at of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tempe first the Kettering Foundation, also in Washington, DC. worked in international politics and polling before Manuel is a 2004 graduate of The George entering the nonprofit sector and then joining Washington University. He has a B.A. in AMIDEAST. She is assisting with the support and International Affairs with a concentration in placement of Fulbright grantees from Lebanon, Conflict and Security and a minor in Religion. Morocco, and Tunisia, and is supporting the Fulbright Alumni Program and the Israeli-Arab Megan Worley, Program Assistant, will leave Scholarship Program. AMIDEAST in the next couple of months to live in Indonesia for one year with her husband, Doug Manuel Mendoza, Senior Program Assistant, Krugman. All of us at AMIDEAST wish the very was on the AMIDEAST Fulbright team from best for the two of them as they share their new October 2005 to February 2007. life together! Current Student Updates ferences on "Teaching Linking" and "Digital Storytelling and ESL" respectively, and will soon have two articles published in Speak Out and TESL- EJ journals for Teaching English as a Second Language. Ghinwa attended the AMIDEAST Re- entry workshop in Washington, D.C. this March and met many friends and the AMIDEAST staff. She also had a chance to watch the Washington D.C. St. Patrick's Parade in wonderful spring weather! Yemen Mohammed Al-Hamdani, MA/English Language and Literature, Radford University: Mohammed was a featured guest speaker to the Fulbright Association’s Blue Ridge Virginia Chapter. He gave a lecture entitled, “Decoding Islam,” in an effort to bring about continued understanding in the Middle East and abroad. Mohamed spoke to students, faculty and staff members, as well as Fulbright alumni from all around the world. (Above) Ghinwa Alameen in front of the St. Patrick’s Tunisia Day parade in Washington, D.C. Slim Menzli, MSME/Mechanical Engineering, University of Central Florida: Slim has been Syria incredibly busy since arriving in the United States Ghinwa Alameen, MA/Applied Linguistics/ this past fall. The Mid-Florida Fulbright Chapter TESL, Iowa State University: took Slim, along with Fulbright grantees from local Ghinwa is the recipient of the Aubrey Galyon universities, to visit the Florida Aquarium. Slim Award 2007 for academic excellence. She exclaims, “it [was] just so relaxing to inhale the recently presented at MIDTESOL and TSLL con- breeze of the coast again!” Slim has also been to Disney World and a University of Central Florida FULBRIGHTER football game! Updates (continued from page 2) PAGE 3 (Left) Miray Zaki, pictured second from right, with other students from the Chicago GSB and Harvard GSB during a conference in Puerto Rico. winter sales, the audience was so enraptured by Said’s enthusiasm and knowledge for the topic that the thirty minute lecture gradually turned into an hour. After the presentation, Said answered questions for more than an hour It was such a big success that he was even invited to give the same presentation the next day! (Below) Said Hassan with Professor David Scott, Chair of the University of California, Los Angeles Getty Conservation Program. Egypt Miray Zaki, MBA/Business “Chicago can be Administration, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business: Traveling fun...but what’s more from Chicago to Montreal, London, Ottowa, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Puerto Rico fun is meeting exciting and back to Chicago has been Miray’s schedule for the past two months! In her effort to people that are research and explore the principles of international business and finance, she has met capable, through their with businessmen and women from around the world to discuss contemporary economic, positions, of changing financial, sociological and even environmental changes worldwide. Most recently, the mayor Bahrain the dynamics of of New York, Michael Bloomberg, discussed Hala Faraj, MBA/Business Administration, the dramatic changes in the financial landscape University of South Florida: In November markets.” — Egyptian with London surpassing New York as the 2006, Hala had the opportunity to meet Dr. Financial Center of the world. Today’s Naser M. Al Belooshi, the Bahraini Ambassador Fulbright grantee, businesses have reached horizons of global to the United States. The event, hosted by the outreach they have never thought they would university’s Dean of International Affairs, Dr. Miray Zaki, MBA from this soon. This year has not only been Maria Crummett, gave Dr. Al Belooshi the exhilarating in terms of the academic chance to discuss his country’s initiatives and the University of knowledge she has acquired but also in the development strategies in the areas of energy, market dynamics she has witnessed first hand. science, and technology with the local business Chicago Graduate communities and university officials in the Radwa Badran, NDR/Accounting, region. At the conference, Hala was invited to School of Business. University of North Texas: Radwa attended discuss present initiatives to encourage further a seminar, led by Professor Letitia Meier Pleis funding for cultural exchange programs. from the Accounting Department at the University of North Texas, called “Investment Decisions: Influence of an Internet Stock Message Board,” which addressed the effect and influence of new sources of information, including Internet message boards, on investment decisions. Said Hassan, NDR/Archeology, Getty Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles: The day before Thanksgiving, Said gave a presentation entitled, “Conservation of the 18th Century Dimiana Coptic Icons from Egypt.” Despite the holiday weekend, when there is a frantic rush to visit family and friends and celebrate the season’s (Above) Hala Faraj next to the Bahraini Ambassador to the United States, Dr.
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