Bechara Karam graduated from Georgetown University with an English major and Arabic minor after transferring from the Miami Dade Honors College. During his undergraduate years, he studied Modern Standard Arabic at the Qasid Institute in Jordan as part of the 2022 Georgetown in Amman summer program, and the following year received a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to study in Rabat, Morocco.
After graduating, he received back-to-back Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) I and II fellowships and returned to Amman, where he spent a year and a half intensively studying Arabic and researching sectarianism in Lebanese politics. As part of his fellowships, he lectured at Qasid and the University of Petra on sectarianism.
As a Lebanese-American, Bechara’s levantine roots form an inextricable part of his identity and worldview. He has interned at the Embassy of Lebanon in Washington, D.C. and the Embassy of Lebanon in Amman, in both the consular affairs and policy departments, where his research informed official diplomatic correspondence with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beirut. He believes in a fair, free, and independent Lebanon.
Bechara looks forward to exploring opportunities in international business, law, and diplomacy, and to furthering his research on the native Christian communities of the Middle East and North Africa.