Students Become Diplomats at Model Arab League

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Students Become Diplomats at Model Arab League

If you think that students from the American Middle West can never understand the Middle East, then you should have visited the 15th Annual National Collegiate Model Arab League held April 2 -- 5 at the Georgetown Holiday Inn in Washington, DC. More than 300 students from 21 different colleges formed teams to represent individual countries from the Arab League. Team members studied for months to learn everything they could about their country and how it interacted with other Arab League members.

Each "country" placed delegates on political ...

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