Yale Arab Alumni Association

10/08/2023

The Yale Arab Alumni Association, the Yale Arab Students Association and Yale MENA have the pleasure of relaunching the ‘Arabs Applying to Yale 2024’, a free 4-part admissions virtual series (https://arabsyale.eventbrite.com):

• The 1st part has already been recorded and is centered around Admissions & Common Misconceptions. With Mr. Keith Light (Director of International Admissions at Yale), current Arab students & Arab alumni: https://youtu.be/EgYcrzntJmI

• The 2nd part will be held on Friday October 13th, 2023, at 11:30am EST (on zoom) and will focus on Common Application Guidance. With Dr. Thomas Dolan (Former member of the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors & Interim Executive Director of Y-Apply).

• The 3rd part will be held on Saturday October 14th, 2023, at 11:30am EST (on zoom) and will be an interactive session with current Arab Yalies. You will get the chance to speak directly with those who were in your shoes just a few years ago.

• The 4th part will be anonymous essay feedback. Those who register on Eventbrite and attend the live Zoom sessions on Oct 13th and Oct 14th will be given the exclusive chance to submit a draft of their main common app essay and receive personalized feedback by a current Yalie* ahead of the early action deadline. For those interested, further information will be presented during the session.

Register on eventbrite:
https://ArabsApplyingToYale2024.eventbrite.com

We can't wait to meet you!

* Disclaimer: Please note that this is only a personal effort led by the aforementioned associations and by no means represents official admissions advice by Yale University.

06/13/2023

Our June Newsletter is out! Click below to find out everything YAAA has been up to and our plans for the year 🎉🎉

10/02/2021

Many thanks to everyone who brought their curiousity and enthusiasm and joined us last night for Part 1/3 of the Arabs Applying to Yale Series. We were very lucky to have Mr. Keith Light, Director of International Admissions, with us and hope we were able to provide a high-level overview of the admissions process and break some common misconceptions. For those who weren't able to make it, this is the link: https://youtu.be/EgYcrzntJmI

The great part of our series is that it is never too late to join - you can always catchup with anything you missed through the recording and can smoothly join us for parts 2 and 3 by registering here: https://arabsapplyingtoyale.eventbrite.com

- Part 2 - Oct 8th, 12pm ET: Interactive Essay Writing Workshop. With Ms. Cathy Shufro (Yale writing tutor) - will not be recorded.

- Part 3 - Oct 15th, 12pm ET: Common Application Guidance & Interview Prep. With Dr. Thomas Dolan (Former member of the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors & Interim Executive Director of Y-Apply).

As always, please share this widely among your networks, with friends and family or anyone you know who might be interested, so we can reach as many prospective applicants as possible and boost the number of Arabs applying to Yale University! 💪💪💪

https://arabsapplyingtoyale.eventbrite.comThe Yale Arab Alumni Association (YAAA) and the Yale Arab Students Association (ASA) have the pleasure of launching...

02/17/2021

Join us Mar 1 @ 12p ET for a discussion of the humanitarian, public health, and financial outlook in Lebanon in 2021 with Sally Abi Khalil, Léa Hakim, and Kaveh Khoshnood.

03/01/2019

Former YAAA board member Tammer Qaddumi putting a little Lux in your Veritas

09/16/2016

A new Yale Alumni College course is being offered in Washington D.C. : "Economics, Politics and the Arab World" by Dr. Paul Sullivan. Course runs Saturdays, OCTOBER 8 - NOVEMBER 12, 10:00 - 11:30 AM. Follow the link for details and to register: http://www.aya.yale.edu/content/washington-dc-course-information

Economics, Politics and the Arab World; Paul Sullivan, ’86 PhD, Professor of Economics at the National Defense University, Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University

09/14/2016

When assuming his appointment as Yale’s first professor of Arabic and Sanskrit languages and literature in August 1843, Edward E. Salisbury urged his colleagues to be patient with him as he strived to

09/14/2016

[YAAA] Fall 2016 Newsletter

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05/25/2014

YAAA has a new fellow!!

The Yale Arab Alumni Association (YAAA) is pleased to announce that Abhinav Nayar (MC ’15) is the recipient of the 2014 YAAA Fellowship for Engagement in the Arab World.

Mr. Nayar, an Ethics, Politics & Economics major, will be an intern with the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development in Amman, Jordan. Mr. Nayar will be serving as a Program Development officer, contributing to a number of projects designed to improve Jordan’s education outcomes. While at the Foundation, Mr. Nayar will work on the core project of Edraak, which seeks to expand Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) in the Arab region. He has previously studied in Morocco as part of Yale in Morocco and worked for the Qatar Foundation, helping the Foundation create a strategy for a global fund for primary education.

This is the third year that YAAA has awarded the Fellowship to a Yale undergraduate with a proven academic or professional interest in the Arab Middle East and North Africa.

If you would like to support the Fellowship or the YAAA in the future, please write [email protected]

03/09/2014

Yalies kick of the YAAA Speaker Series in December in Beirut with a talk by Ellen Lust. From left to right: Rami Khouri, Director, Issam Fares Institute; Yale Associate Professor Ellen Lust; YAAA Board President George Abdelnour; and YAAA Board Secretary Emily Hendrick.

03/09/2014

In December, YAAA launched its Speaker Series by inviting Prof. Ellen Lust, Associate Professor of Political Science, to Beirut. She presented a paper entitled “Why Libya, Tunisia and Egypt Face Different Obstacles to Democratization: Parties, Polarization and Political Transition” at the American University of Beirut.