Fulbright Foreign Student Program

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State is the U.S. government's flagship international educational program and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The scholarship is a merit-based grant that provides funding for graduate-level study at a U.S. university. For over four decades, AMIDEAST has been placing students from across the MENA region into universities throughout the United States. It has been integral to the success of the Fulbright Program, serving as a convener of academic and cultural exchange and dialogue. AMIDEAST continues today to support hundreds of Fulbrighters each year as students experience U.S. Higher Education, local culture, engage with Americans while successfully completing their grants in the United States.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Programs (JFDP) for Egypt and Lebanon and the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Iraq bring junior faculty in various discipline-based cohorts to the United States for intensive 10-week programs for faculty development, mentoring, and cultural exchange activities. The intent of these programs is to equip junior faculty with the tools needed to build higher education capacity within their home institutions and advance education for future generations. The programs also provide the foundation for junior faculty and their U.S. hosts to develop sustainable institutional relationships and identify areas of cooperation to foster long-term collaboration and institutional linkages.