Category: Alumni Spotlight

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Q&;A with Craig Browne (MAAS ’15)

Craig Browne currently works for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) – Libya, based in Tunisia, where he coordinates food assistance for refugees in the country.…

December 10, 2018

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Q&A with Charles Kiamie (MAAS ’04)

Charles Kiamie is the Acting Director of USAID’s Office of Local Sustainability, which focuses on deepening the agency’s partnerships with local and US-based development…

November 14, 2018

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Q&A with Andy Masloski (MAAS ’06)

Andy Masloski received a B.S. in Foreign Service and an M.A. in Arab Studies with a focus in Culture and Society from Georgetown University. He currently works at the State…

October 29, 2018

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Alumni Spotlight: Alaa Mufleh (MAAS ’18)

“I have learned that when you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift and that is how you inspire and initiate change,” says Alaa Mufleh, a 2018 graduate…

May 23, 2018

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Q&A with Journalist Ada Mullol (MAAS ’18)

Ada Mullol was well on her way to a career in journalism when she decided to pursue her Masters in Arab Studies at Georgetown. She first honed her reporting skills as an…

April 17, 2018

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Alumni Spotlight: Natalia Sancha (MAAS ’08)

MAAS alumna Natalia Sancha, originally from Andalusia, studied journalism because she wanted to cover important events and tell people about them. Now, after working as a,…

January 29, 2018

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MAAS Alum Featured in AramcoWorld

AramcoWorld Magazine recently featured MAAS alumna Roberta Dougherty ('88), Yale's librarian for Middle East Studies, in an article on the history of Arabic language studies in.…

January 22, 2018

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CCAS Education Outreach Coordinator wins President’s Excellence Award

The Center for Contemporary Arab studies is pleased to announce that CCAS Education Outreach Coordinator Dr. Susan Douglass is a 2017 recipient of the President’s Excellence…

November 22, 2017

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Alumni Spotlight: Curt Goering (MAAS ’80)

While in college in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Curt Goering would frequently watch soldiers periodically enter and disrupt his classes and take students away. His classmates…

November 1, 2017

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Q&A with Tighe Flanagan (MAAS ’12)

Tighe Flanagan is Director of Wikimedia Foundation’s Education Programs, which helps educators and students around the world contribute to Wikipedia in an academic setting. As…

November 1, 2017