For the second year, AMEI is organizing a Cultural Program for undergraduate and graduate students this June! Students will choose between beginning, intermediate, and advanced Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic & Egyptian Dialect) classes at International House Cairo. A professional tour guide will lead students on daily afternoon site visits to Ancient, Medieval, and Modern sites in Cairo. There will also be two weekend trips to Alexandria and Ain Sokhna.
AMEI Communications and Development Manager, Marina Lorenzini, will lead the group on flights and all daily activities.
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AMEI Communications and Development Manager, Marina Lorenzini
The American Middle East Institute is organizing a two-week cultural immersion program to Cairo for students interested in experiencing Modern Egypt, learning Introductory Arabic, viewing Egyptian Antiquities, and learning the History of Egypt and the Arab World. This Program could contribute to coursework in Abrahamic Religions, Africana Studies, Ancient Egypt, the Arab World, and/or International Studies.
General Petraeus' lecture is the culminating event of AMEI's 7th Annual Business Conference, OASIS: Growing Business Between the U.S. and the Middle East.
General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army retiree, academic professor and chairman of KKR Global Institute will speak at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland at 8 p.m., as the culminating event of AMEI's 7th Annual Business Conference.
Tickets prices are $65 for the first floor, $45 for the first balcony and $25 for the second balcony.
American Middle East Institute, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
June 13 - November 15, 2013 Experience more than 7,000 years of largely unknown cultural history of the Arabian Peninsula in Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on view at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, June 22–November 3, 2013. Roads of Arabia examines the impact of ancient trade routes that traversed the peninsula, carrying precious frankincense and myrrh to the Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman world and allowing for a vibrant exchange of both objects and ideas.
