Fulbright Hays Program
Ibn Ghazi Arabic Institute in Fez was honored to host the Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad in collaboration with Juniata College and through Funding from the US Department of Education. This prestigious four-week program aimed at assisting educators in integrating the cultural history of North Africa into their language, social sciences and humanities curricula as well as developing instructional resources for Arabic language and area studies in their schools.
The four-week program focused on Arabic language instruction in addition to lectures on various relevant topics, calligraphy workshops, seminars, cooking classes, cultural excursions to many UNESCO’s World Heritage sites and Moroccan cities. This is in addition to the fact that the participants had the chance to live in the largest medieval city in the world, Fez, during the period of the program.
The program’s participants were paired up with mentors who are Moroccan teachers. The mentors played a very important role in answering the participants’ questions about Arabic language and Moroccan culture, history, and Islam, to name a few, through regular weekly meetings.
Building on this successful experience, Ibn Ghazi Arabic Institute is confident in its ability to collaborate with institutions in the United States and around the world on government-funded academic and cultural programs. The institute is well positioned to serve as a reliable partner and host institution for international initiatives that require strong academic expertise, cultural immersion, and on-the-ground coordination abroad.
