This edition’s “In Your Own Words,” is by Fulbright and East West Center alumna, Dr. Feriyal Amal Aslam. Her PhD project proposed a soft-power diplomacy approach using aesthetic and performative practices, and people-to-people diplomacy to heal relations between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Currently, she is on a one-year sabbatical to focus ...
Alumni of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD) foster mutual understanding by sharing their talents, knowledge, experience, and time with their host communities in the U.S. Shared below are brief updates on what a select group of alumni have accomplished during their semester abroad. Congratulations, Hamza Zaman, Moizza Salahuddin, ...
The following is a heartfelt post by Fulbright alumna, Amna Yameen, describing her experiences as a Pakistani, Muslim student in the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship. She returned in 2016 with a Master’s degree in Human Resource Development from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She can be reached ...
Start. Stop. Switch. These were the words resonating across the hall during the speed networking portion of Fulbright Connect 2017 – an annual networking meet connecting Fulbright alumni with industry professionals across Pakistan. The low-level buzz from alumni giving their elevator pitches, coupled with the moderator’s timely interventions with call ...
In developing societies like Pakistan, where innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit is slowly finding roots thanks to incubators like Plan 9, i2i, WeCreate, and spaces at top universities like LUMS and NUST, people are embracing a variety of problem solving techniques to help address local community problems. According to Fulbright ...
