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It was a perfect Fourth of July for American University of Kuwait
(AUK) student interns Rama Sabano and Hana Ibrahim. On campus as assistant
teachers of Arabic in the Rassias Foundation's Accelerated
Language Program this summer, the two women were invited to participate in
the historic Wolfeboro, N.H., Independence Day Parade. On the southeast tip of
Lake Winnepesaukee, Wolfeboro lays claim to being "America's Oldest Resort
Town."
American University of Kuwait students Rama Sabano and Hana Ibrahim hand out
candy at the Wolfeboro, N.H., Fourth of July parade. (Photo by Kawakahi Kaeo
Amina '09)
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Sabano and Ibrahim traveled to the lakeside community at the invitation of
New Hampshire Senator John Sununu, who is of Lebanese descent. They joined
staffers from Sununu's office, marched alongside contingents for the various
presidential candidates, a bagpipe orchestra, the Wolfeboro Ladies' Garden
Club, and Uncle Sam on stilts, to name just a few of the groups represented
along the parade route. "I'll remember this day for the rest of my life," said
Ibrahim over lunch at the historic Wolfeboro Inn.
Established in 2003, the American University of Kuwait (AUK) is the first
private liberal arts university in Kuwait. Dartmouth provides expertise and
consultation to the new university on a broad spectrum of academic and
administrative areas under the terms of a memorandum of understanding
administered through the Dickey
Center. Dale F. Eickelman, the Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of
Anthropology and Human Relations, coordinates the various aspects of
Dartmouth's relationship with AUK, including programs associated with the
Dickey Center, Rassias Foundation, Hood Museum of Art, and the
libraries.
Several Dartmouth students have traveled to the Persian Gulf nation as AUK
interns, including two members of the Class of 2006 who returned to the Middle
East as Fulbright Scholars.
By LAUREL STAVIS
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