Ibrahim Insights

Zoe Brouns is a member of the 2016 Ibrahim cohort. Read more about her experience on her blog: Jamil Jedan: A Trip Through the Middle East.

I am a grateful participant with the 2016 Ibrahim Student Leadership & Dialogue Middle East Fellowship program. It was a tremendous...

Yarah Shabana is a member of the 2016 Ibrahim cohort. Read more about her journey in her LinkedIn article: Egyptian and "Broud"

We enter the school on a Tuesday morning, walking past the sports yard and the sounds of kids playing football and shouting through the...

Gabriella Cook Francis is a member of the 2016 Ibrahim cohort.

Visiting the United Arab Emirates has been on many people’s bucket list for a long time, including mine. Was it because of its culture?...

Israel Tel Aviv’s coast ran along my beloved Mediterranean Sea. Tel Aviv was filled with Jewish and Arab people, along with the few...

Immigration policy and reform is a contentious topic in the United States, as in most other countries, and features prominently in the...

At the time of the Arab Spring, one Arab nation after another succumbed to violent transitions and civil wars. Millions of Arab civilians...

A journey throughout Israel-Palestine that put me in touch with heroes of hope in a land that seems to know none of it. Over the past...

Ahmet Yücesoy and Yano Windmiller are member of the 2016 Ibrahim cohort.

Although lavishly apparent, food and oil were not the only luxuries in Oman leading to its success as a nation. The powerful Sultanate is...

One of the highlights in Oman was meeting with the Ministry of Culture. He provided insight into the current issues and successes within...

Claudio Josuel Alejo is a member of the 2016 Ibrahim cohort.

On our trip through the Middle East with the Ibrahim program, we travelled to five different countries. We met with policymakers,...

In my head, I call it Palestine. It’s important to me, to give a name to the corner of Earth I’ve heard so much about, to try and...

As a devout Christian-Catholic, the pinnacle of my spiritual journey was to make a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the...

It’s easy to understand why people lose hope. After losing their homes and spending years under military occupation, how can they not...

Jordan may be my favourite country so far. For the first few days, we spent our time touring Amman and heading down to Wadi Rum and...

I was so struck by the beauty of this valley. Much of Oman seems almost mythic. Ibrahim fellows don’t shy away from challenging...