CMES is very pleased to announce that we have been awarded a Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education for the 2014–2018 grant cycle. FLAS grants provide fellowship funding to enable meritorious undergraduate and graduate students to pursue advanced training in modern foreign languages and research in related fields. CMES-awarded FLAS fellowships enable Harvard students from CMES’s graduate programs and across the university to study advanced Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish at Harvard and at approved summer study abroad programs. Past FLAS award winners from Harvard have achieved extraordinary professional success in the fields of international business, law, diplomacy, journalism and academia. From teaching positions at the finest American universities, to careers with the U.S. Department of State, the New York Times, and McKinsey and Company (just to name a few), CMES FLAS recipients are distinguished professionals who are contributing directly to increasing knowledge, understanding, and expertise about the Middle East region.
October 22, 2014