The June 24-25 symposium, hosted by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, will bring together foreign policy scholars and former leaders from the U.S. State Department, military, and White House for high-level, closed-session talks.
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Hoda Barakat, a Lebanese author and visiting professor of Middle Eastern studies, has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for her novel The Night Mail. She accepted the award on April 23 at a gala ceremony in Abu Dhabi. The award carries a monetary prize of $50,000 plus funding for an English translation of the book, which will be published as The Night Post in 2020.
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[more]The Irving Institute, along with other funders, is supporting student research.
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A spring 2018 foreign-study program (FSP) in Morocco gave students a chance to live with host families, study at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez, and experience everyday life in a predominantly Islamic culture. The program is one of nearly 50 off-campus programs Dartmouth offers through the Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education in more than 20 countries on five continents....
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Students in the War and Peace Fellows program traveled to Qatar during winter break, attending the Doha Forum, a high-level international affairs summit, and meeting with U.S. and Qatari diplomats in the Persian Gulf state.
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The students in “Macroeconomic Policy and Reform in Chile and Argentina” dove into the reality of classroom theories on a winter-interim trip to South America, visiting current and former ministers of finance, top business executives, leading economists, community organizers, and students in the two countries.
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Dartmouth economists Nina Pavcnik and Douglas Irwin appear in a video on the benefits of trade presented to more than 70 heads of state and 200 business leaders at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York.
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What does it mean to be a good global citizen? What should colleges and universities do to support and develop global citizenship in education and research, both on and off campus? And what role should academic institutions play in the face of complex social challenges worldwide?
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Carmen Braceras ’20 spent the fall term studying the transformation of Poland to a market economy, but it was a tour of Saint Mary’s Basilica in Krakow during the winter break that gave her an insight into the Polish perspective, she says.
The uneven towers of the brick Gothic church dominate the city’s main market square, where Dartmouth students were touring with some of their counterparts from the Krakow University of Economics. One of the Polish students told Braceras about the...
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