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US keen on exchange programme
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DOHA: The United States government is encouraging more Qataris to apply for its diverse exchange opportunities available to students, professors and business leaders, a US Embassy official said.
Joey Hood, First Secretary of the US Embassy, said President Barack Obama has called for expanding America's exchange programmes to bring more Muslim students, academics and scientists to the United States, and to send more Americans to Muslim communities around the world.
Yesterday, recipients and nominees of one of the US' flagship exchange programmes, the Fulbright programme, gathered at a reception hosted by the US Embassy to acknowledge the benefits of the grant.
Hood, who was a recipient of the Fulbright programme some years back, said the exchange programme sends thousands of Americans to more than 155 countries around the world to live, work and study. It also brings Qataris and other nationalities to the US for a year of study, research or leadership training.
Prof Hussam Alkhateeb, cultural expert and translation supervisor at the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, said the Fulbright programme has helped him immensely with one of his major researches. "I did some research at a university in Indiana ... I was preparing a research about Palestinian literature and found material at the university there." Alkhateeb was a recipient of a Fulbright grant from 1997 to 1998.
Three nominees are waiting for the results on who gets the Fulbright grant for academic year 2010 and 2011: Sarah Al Mohannadi, PhD; Ali Alshawi Al Marri; and Siham Al Qaradawi.
Al Mohannadi, an assistant professor at Qatar University, said she applied for the Fulbright scholarship for its Visiting Scholar grant to increase her knowledge and learn new cultures.
Learning about a new culture is what Edward Kim, an American Fulbright student, is doing here in Qatar. Kim, who majored in Anthropology at Dartmouth, one of the Ivy League schools in the US, said he is doing a research on "how modernisation and change has affected Qatar... what kind of changes are taking place, who wants these changes, and what kind of change they want..." Kim will be leaving in early June.
The Fulbright programme provides a number of different grants: Grants for students include the Fulbright Foreign Student Programme, which enables students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research and study in the US; the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Programme, which provides opportunities for young English teachers from overseas to refine their teaching skills and broaden their knowledge of American culture and society while strengthening the instruction of foreign languages at colleges and universities in the US; the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, a new internationally competed award for doctoral study at leading US institutions in science, technology and engineering; the Fulbright Specialists Programme, which sends US faculty and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty development, institutional planning and related subjects at overseas academic institutions for a period of two to six weeks; and the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Programme and Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Programme, which bring foreign scholars to lecture and/or conduct post-doctoral research for up to a year at US colleges and universities. There are also Fulbright grants for teachers, the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Programme; and for professionals, the Hubert H Humphrey Programme.
By Joyce C Abaño
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