NIMEP

As part of the Institute for Global Leadership’s Student Speaker Series on Migration this spring, Tufts’ New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) brought Michael Nikconchuk (A’11) to campus to speak about his experience working for Questscope in the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan.

On Monday we had a meeting scheduled with the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID). Mia and Nesi went to a morning meeting at the CSID while Jenny worked on her own project from the hotel since CSID’s focus was not related to her research.

There is little disagreement amount the fact that sustainable energy the key to our future.

In Marrakesh, we visited the Ben Youssef Medersa, the oldest Islamic college in North Africa and largest in Morocco, a mere ten-minute walk from where we were staying. The college was built during the reign of Sultan Ali Ibn Yusuf, whose reign was from 1106 to 1142.