“I can never forget how DKSSF contributed to my success and opened for me the door of opportunity.“ — Jad El Khoury

Four bright young men and women from Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia are the latest beneficiaries of the Diana Kamal Scholarship Search Fund (DKSSF), an initiative that enables AMIDEAST to match highly deserving Arab youth with scholarships to pursue their education in the United States.  

Last year, Kalimat al Mashari enrolled in a unique job-training program at AMIDEAST/Oman designed to enhance the work skills and self-confidence of Omani women like her — high school graduates from underserved backgrounds who are unemployed. 

Opportunities for group work strengthened the practical communication skills of these teachers from Hebron.

With their students dismissed for the summer break, 180 dedicated Palestinian teachers headed to AMIDEAST’s centers in El-Bireh/Ramallah, Gaza City, Hebron, and Nablus for a special training program designed to make them more effective teachers of English.

AMIDEAST EL Coordinator Chris Ludlow (fourth from left) with the first students.

At the end of March, students were welcomed into the Acadia, Redwood, and Yellowstone rooms of AMIDEAST’s new English Language Training Center in Ainkawa, a suburb of Erbil, in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.  The first of several planned ELT centers, Ainkawa represents the long-awaited launch of AMIDEAST English services in Iraq.