Alumni Spotlight

The Recanati-Kaplan Prize supports outstanding projects by culture creators and producers from the Arab world.

MAAS alum Michael Fischbach discusses his research on connections between the Black Freedom movement of 1960s America and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

MAAS alum Omar Shakir has spent his career documenting and calling out mass atrocities committed against Palestinians.

MAAS alumni Timothy Loh published a podcast episode with SAPIENS Magazine, featuring the story of a deaf Jordanian who migrated to Japan.

Leena Mo, CEO book tells the story of an Iraqi-American girl who builds a robot, and a business, to help her family and neighbors.

MAAS '18 alums Mark Berlin and Meghan Feely found love on the Hilltop…

In this interview, Coco Tait speaks with alumni Motasem Abuzaid (MAAS ‘22) and Azim Wazeer (MAAS ‘21), who are both currently doctoral candidates in politics at St…

In February, a ten-episode television series titled Andi Hulum, Arabic for “I Have a Dream,” premiered on Algeria’s Ennahar TV. The show—Algeria’s first entrepreneurship reality series—is produced by…

Photo by Laurie Coyle Najib Joe Hakim works as a documentary and editorial photographer in San Francisco. He is a Political Art Fellow at the Yerba Buena…

An interview with MAAS alum Jennifer Derr (‘10).