On April 9, the director of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), Dr. Adnan Shehab-Eldin, visited the Dartmouth campus to explore mutually beneficial possibilities for Dartmouth and KFAS.

 

Leaders from Dartmouth and the American University of Kuwait (AUK) met April 25 to reaffirm their partnership, which deepens and expands the liberal arts experience on both campuses, by signing a third memorandum of understanding between the institutions. Click here for the full story.

 

Salem Al-Salem

Salem Al-Salem is a junior at the American University of Kuwait. A major in international relations with a minor in history, Salem says he is excited to visit Dartmouth College as it will be his first visit to the United States. He was born and raised in Kuwait and has been educated in the American system throughout his life. His passions include reading, volunteering, debating, all outdoor activities, traveling, and, most importantly, the arts. Salem is a board member of the Fine Arts Society at AUK. He says he is honored to be an intern at Dartmouth College and looks forward to learning about and experiencing American culture. He will be interning at the Hood Museum of Art and in the Office of Public Affairs and the Media Production Group.

 

Stephanie Khalil

Stephanie Khalil is a third-year student at the American University of Kuwait, majoring in communications and media. She is Lebanese but grew up in Kuwait. Stephanie has worked as a peer tutor for the Intensive English Program at AUK and, in the spring of 2012, was employed as an AUK Writing Center consultant, where she currently works. She also is treasurer of the university's book club, the AUK Diwaniya. Stephanie is interested in history and says she is excited to be doing an internship at the Hood Museum of Art and at the Office of Public Affairs and the Media Production Group at Dartmouth. This visit will be her first to the United States and she says she is looking forward to learning about American culture firsthand. 

 

Muneera Al-Khulaifi

Muneera Al-Khulaifi is a junior at the American University of Kuwait, where she majors in English literature. She is a Kuwaiti citizen and likes traveling to learn about other cultures and have new experiences. Muneera is fluent in Arabic and English—she taught English to several of her family members—and has a basic knowledge of Spanish. She also has an interest in speech therapy and volunteers in the community, which helps her develop her leadership skills. She is looking forward to this experience and says she is honored to be an intern at Dartmouth College. Her internship will be with the Accelerated Language Programs at the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures.

 

Two AUK students, Khaled Al-Qahtani and Dana Al-Muttar, will again participate in the Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training (SISMAT) program through Dartmouth's Institute for Security, Technology, and Society. Khaled is following in the footsteps of his sister, Dalaa, who was one of the first AUK students to participate in SISMAT in 2011. Dana is the treasurer for the AUK branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

 

The Faculty Fellow/Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth this summer will be Ghazi Q. Nassir, an associate professor of English at AUK. He will be sponsored by Donald Pease, the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program.

Dr. Ghazi Q. Nassir

Dr. Nassir has been a faculty member at AUK since 2004. He earned a PhD from Florida State University in 1989 and an MA from Marshall University in West Virginia in 1982. He has many teaching and research interests, such as 18th-century British literature and drama and the image of Arabs in Hollywood films. He is the author of Samuel Johnson's Attitudes Toward Islam: A Study of His Oriental Readings and Writings. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Perceptions and Representations of Islam and Muslims in English Literature (three volumes), which has been accepted by the Edwin Mellen Press.