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Dartmouth-AUK program helps them learn more about the diversity of the Middle East.

Leaders from the American University of Kuwait traveled to Dartmouth to reaffirm their commitment to advancing liberal arts education in the Persian Gulf region and continuing cross-cultural collaborations between faculty, students, and staff at both institutions.  The two institutions have been partners in liberal arts education since 2003.

Six students from the American University of Kuwait, the first liberal arts university in the Middle Eastern country, are spending the summer on campus taking classes, serving as interns at the Tuck School of Business and the Office of Communications, and immersing themselves in a culture and climate very different from their own.

Amro Nour, an electrical engineering professor at the American University of Kuwait (AUK), came to Dartmouth to join engineering professor Fridon Shubitidze, the goal was simple: To save lives through collaboration on two separate research projects.

Since his retirement in 2016, anthropologist Dale Eickelman ’64 has continued doing familiar work—writing, mentoring students, and leading the Dartmouth College-American University of Kuwait Program and the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies.

The Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) awarded Dale Eickelman, the Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations emeritus, the Jere L. Bacharach award for service. 

Leaders from Dartmouth and the American University of Kuwait (AUK), the Gulf nation’s first and only liberal arts university, met at the College last month to extend their institutional partnership for another five years with an agreement that deepens and expands the academic experience on both campuses.

During the 2016-17 academic year, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth will engage with the American University of Kuwait (AUK) by sending Tuck students to Kuwait as part of Tuck's OnSite Global Consulting program. The team will work for AUK, researching and recommending methods to enhance the current business and economics curriculum, and conducting market studies to determine demand for growth and expansion in AUK business and economics offerings.