Arab female professionals finish U.S. State Department-sponsored courses

Thirty-six young female lawyers and businesswomen selected from different parts of the Middle East and North Africa completed on Wednesday a six-month US business and legal fellowship program as part of the US Administrations Middle East Peace Initiative (MEPI). The women in the Legal and Business Fellowship Program (LBFP) were selected out of 1,000 applicants based on work experience and TOEFL scores, from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian Territories, and Yemen.  (more)