The Perfect Storm: Can the Government of Oman Survive the Sultan’s Death?

As a western tourist in a globalized world, I often find myself surrounded by too much familiarity when travelling internationally. The ubiquity of Starbucks, the growing uniformity of clothing [...]

  By: Zoë Brouns See more of Zoë’s posts on her fellowship blog: Jamil Jedan: A Trip Through the Middle East

It’s one thing to constantly watch the news about a country experiencing war and a complete other to actually be there, witnessing what its citizens go through on a daily basis. Our final [...]

Societies use collective narratives as a way to solidify a group’s identity and form cohesion amongst its members. They may be used to preserve customs and traditions or more sinisterly may be [...]

On May 19th, the Ibrahim Leadership and Dialogue Program (ILDP) fellows had an audience with Abdulaziz bin Mohammed al Rawas, Advisor to His Majesty the Sultan for Cultural Affairs. As the [...]

My Journey as a 2016 Ibrahim Fellow I am a grateful participant with the 2016 Ibrahim Student Leadership & Dialogue Middle East Fellowship program. It was a tremendous opportunity to be [...]

   By: Elijah Villapiano

Despite the loud mouth of Donald Trump not a day goes by when ISIS (Daesh in Arabic) is mentioned by major media outlets. With the amount of media attention that the terrorist group receives one [...]

By: Yarah Shabana Learn more about Yarah’s journey and read her article on Linkedin: Egyptian and “Broud”

We enter the school on a Tuesday morning, walking past the sports yard and the sounds of kids playing football and shouting through the fence to grab our attention. The classrooms are already in [...]