This summer, CCAS partnered with the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and Bethlehem University to host a dynamic team of interns from both the United States and abroad.
Jinseul Jun, who is interning with HRW’s Disability Rights Division, shares her experiences in the hopes of bringing visibility to local and global movements promoting the rights of people with disabilities.
CCAS Professor Daniel Neep argues in his article for the Crown Center for Middle East Studies that we must learn from Syria’s history of tyrannies to understand why the Asad regime has persisted.
Congratulations to Prof. Noureddine Jebnoun on the publications of his chapter “Tunisia: Patterns and Implications of Civilian Control” in Civil-Military Relations: Control and Effectiveness Across Regimes with Lynn Riener Publishers.
Congratulations to the winners of the Exodus Institute "Welcoming Immigrants to America" video contest, including MAAS students Nour Laswi (1st place) and Saúl Ulloa (Runner Up)!…
CCAS Adjunct Associate Professor Noureddine Jebnoun recently published "Public Space Security and Contentious Politics of Morocco’s Rif Protests" in the journal Middle Eastern Studies.
For MAAS alum Julie Eadeh, diplomacy is all about human relationships, whether building connections with local communities or helping Americans abroad in times of crisis.
Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman & Member of the CCAS Board of Advisors By Isabel Roemer Her Excellency Hunaina Sultan Al Mughairy has served as the Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the United States since 2005. In this role, she has applied her extensive expertise in business…
Last fall, Congress enacted a law that indirectly led to 29 young Arab leaders losing their scholarships to U.S.-accredited universities and dealt another blow to educational and cultural exchange programming, a critical part of U.S. public diplomacy efforts.
A certificate program at the School of Foreign Service offers theoretical knowledge and practical training for aspiring diplomats. By Vicki Valosik According to Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Director of Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD), the skills needed by today’s aspiring diplomats haven’t changed significantly since the days when…
Carol Madison Graham (MAAS '81) was the first MAAS graduate to enter the United States Foreign Service. She reflects on how the 1984 embassy bombing in Beirut inspired her current work to strengthen the Foreign Service for future generations.
Ambassador ONG Keng Yong, who graduated from MAAS in 1983, remembers his time in Washington and sheds light on Singapore's "price taker" approach to foreign policy.
Alum Kala Carruthers Azar, who serves as Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, writes about the important role of people-to-people exchanges to American soft power.
Left to Right: Noura Kattan, Jeffrey Wu, Jake Moran, and Virginia Valenti at the Undergraduate Arab Studies Certificate Colloquium on April 15, 2019 CCAS offers a Certificate of Arab Studies at both the graduate and undergraduate level. As part of the undergraduate certificate program, students write and present a capstone…
Hannah Beswick is the Partnerships Development Specialist at the UN Women Liaison Office for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. In this role, she builds and fosters relationships with the government, private sector, and civil society organizations to advance the gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda in…
Aisha Al-Sarihi, CCAS Visiting Scholar, has published a new paper with the Arab Gulf States Institute that sheds light on Saudi Arabia’s climate change governance at the national level.
CCAS Director Rochelle Davis and colleagues at the Institute for the Study of International Migration and IOM Iraq have published "Access to Durable Solutions: Three Years in Displacement," with findings from an ongoing, multi-year study on displacement in Iraq.
August 5-9, 2019, 9:00am – 3:00pm, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, ICC #141 The Summer Teacher Institute 2019 will explore the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, both in its origins and impact. As many historians have noted, the view of the Enlightenment as a European thought movement…
A Day in the Life of Beirut’s Cultural Attaché Smith snaps a selfie during a visit from the U.S. Secretary of State For Kristin Smith, MAAS alum and Cultural Affairs Officer for the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, culture and diplomacy go hand-in-hand. “My job is really using culture and…
