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Throughout the school year, North Carolina educators request culture kits from Carolina Navigators to aid their classroom lessons. (Photo By Jeyhoun Allebaugh/UNC-Chapel Hill).   Carolina Navigators, a service-learning and global education outreach program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took K-12 classes around the world [...]

What are underreported stories, and where can we find them? What more do we learn, and connect with, by exploring underreported stories? On April 22, 2021, the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies hosted a [...]

Our annual newsletter highlights center activities from the 2020 - 2021 academic year. Read to learn more about programming, highlights from our affiliated faculty and students, and K-14 outreach events. Click on the image below to view the newsletter, or download a PDF copy. Thank you for your continued support [...]

  Women have long been underrepresented in key sectors of the United States federal government, particularly in positions of national security leadership, and this is especially true for women of color. In Spring 2021, the area studies centers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill convened a panel conversation with women who [...]

How to Teach about the Middle East -- and Get it Right: Experiential Learning about the Middle East through the Senses Barbara Petzen presents to educators on March 18, 2021 The five major senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste provide creative and memorable opportunities for engaging [...]

Angela Chin’20 and Radhika Arora’18   Following a highly competitive nationwide selection process, Radhika Arora and Angela Chin were awarded a 2021 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. The Rangel Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, supports extraordinary individuals who want [...]

The Ever Given is underway again, but the global supply chain is reeling from the Suez Canal closing. A UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School professor explains why.   Satellite imagery of the container ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal. (Image courtesy of Maxar Technologies)   On March [...]

Brent Van Vliet '20 The Old Well located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Area Studies Centers and the UNC Curriculum in Global Studies hosted Global Career Night virtually on February [...]

Virtual Exchange Program Encourages Cross-Border Collaborations Between Teachers in the United States and the Middle East The Duke-University of North Carolina (UNC) Consortium for Middle East Studies and the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies (UA CMES) have collaborated to establish the Teachers Collaborating Across Borders Program (TCAB) which provides a unique opportunity for [...]

On February 25, over 80 educators at the middle, high and community college levels explored teaching practices and historical perspectives in the second installment of the webinar series, “How to Teach About the Middle East—and Get it Right!” The webinar featured Allen Fromherz, professor of history and director of the Middle East Studies Center at Georgia State University.   Fromherz presented various approaches [...]

  The Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill) The American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) and UNC-Chapel Hill are collaborating on the production of The General and the Ambassador, a well-recognized podcast series that focuses on how senior U.S. military leaders partner with [...]

by Reo Aono, International Society of Business and Foreign Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill On February 23rd, the Duke UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies sponsored a virtual event titled Global Supply Chains: An Interconnected World. The event aimed to inform university students about the implementation and impact of global supply [...]