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Tunisia: MEPI Beneficiary Leaves Medicine to Become an Entrepreneur

After working for 18 years in the medical field, Bouchra Laouani Mansour started thinking about launching her own business. Ambitious, independent and dynamic, she began marketing a brand of organic cosmetics, working from home and relying on her personal network. This experience made her want to go further and become her own boss. Drawing on ...

By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 9 February, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Success Stories | Tags: Entrepreneurship, Success Stories

MEPI Alumna Elected to City Council in Algeria

One of our most dynamic MEPI Leaders for Democracy Fellowship (LDF) alumna, Nacira Amari, was elected on December 3, 2017 to her local city council in the western city of Saida, near Oran. A high school math teacher, Amari was a tenacious candidate, winning despite divisions within her local party apparatus. She certainly offers a ...

By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 26 January, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: alumni, MENA, MEPI, Success Stories

Saudi Arabia Adapts UNCITRAL Arbitration Law

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has now recognized Saudi Arabia as a jurisdiction that has adopted an arbitration law based on the 2006 UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law. During a December MEPI-funded regional arbitration conference run by CLDP, a delegation of Saudi judges presented case law on the interpretation of Sharia in ...

By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 18 January, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Success Stories | Tags: Success Stories

2018 MEPI Leaders for Democracy Fellowship (LDF) Program

The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Office of Assistance Coordination (NEA/AC) is pleased to announce the 2018 Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Leaders for Democracy Fellowship (LDF) program. Since 2007, the program has provided early and mid-career professionals from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with the opportunity to complete training in leadership, ...

By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 17 January, 2018 | Topics: U.S. & MEPI | Tags: LDF, MENA, MEPI

NEA SAMS Domestic Grant System Transition: System Changes at Department of State

The domestic State Assistance Management System (SAMS Domestic) will soon be used to manage all federal assistance activities at the Department of State. SAMS Domestic is a new in-house grants management system that will replace the system we are currently using to manage your awards, GrantSolutions. GrantSolutions is being phased out bureau by bureau over the ...

By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 4 December, 2017 | Topics: News, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: SAMS, system

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