Middle East studies in the News

Cautious Optimism in Cairo
Program Administrators Don't Expect Complications with New Islamist President in Egypt

by Elise Young
Inside Higher Ed
June 26, 2012

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/26/program-administrators-dont-expect-complications-new-islamist-president-egypt

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12446

Many Egyptians hope that Islamist Mohamed Morsi's victory over a former military general in Sunday's presidential election will bring big changes to the country.

But administrators of several American higher education programs operating in Egypt said they don't foresee these changes affecting them -- at least not right away.

Jerry Bookin-Weiner, director of education abroad for AMIDEAST, an American nonprofit organization that operates international education and development activities throughout the Middle East and North Africa, including in Egypt, said he doesn't expect the government to make any immediate policy changes that would affect how educational programs such as these operate or the in-country universities with which they affiliate.

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