Middle Eastern and North African Students Begin Middle East Partnership Initiative "Study of the U.S." Institutes at Benedictine University, University of Delaware, and Montana State University

Middle Eastern and North African Students Begin Middle East Partnership Initiative Study of the U.S. Institutes at Benedictine University, University of Delaware, and Montana State University

The U.S. Department of State is pleased to welcome to the United States students from the Middle East and North Africa to participate in the "Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Study of the U.S. Institute for Middle Eastern and North African Student Leaders" at three universities across the country for the next two months. The students were nominated through U.S. Embassies abroad in partnership with local institutions.

MEPI and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs sponsor the institutes, which are designed to increase participants' awareness of civic rights and responsibilities, and to provide them with the skills to become effective business, civil society and community leaders of tomorrow. A key goal of the institutes is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the Middle East and North Africa and the people of the United States.

Under this program, 64 recent high school graduate and undergraduate student leaders from 16 countries and the West Bank and Gaza will take part in academic programming on the campuses of Benedictine University, the University of Delaware, and Montana State University. The context of each campus program will be distinct, ranging in subject matter from diversity to leadership to the American west, and will include community service and volunteer components.

MEPI is managed by the Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State. MEPI is a presidential initiative founded to support economic, political and educational reform efforts in the Middle East and North Africa and expanded opportunity for all people of the region, especially women and youth. More information about MEPI can be found at http://www.mepi.state.gov/

"Study of the U.S." summer program participants are among the approximately 30,000 individuals who participate in U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs exchange programs each year. For more information about this program or other exchanges, visit http://exchanges.state.gov.

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Released on July 12, 2005

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Middle Eastern and North African Students Begin Middle East Partnership Initiative Study of the U.S. Institutes at Benedictine University, University of Delaware, and Montana State University

Middle Eastern and North African Students Begin Middle East Partnership Initiative Study of the U.S. Institutes at Benedictine University, University of Delaware, and Montana State University