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A group of young Americans and their friends are having coffee at a busy and popular spot near the university. At first glance, they might seem like typical college students enjoying a traditional junior year abroad, exchanging stories or passing the time between classes. In past decades the venue would have been the Sorbonne or Oxford or an art institute in Florence. But more often this is a common scene in the Middle East.
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Cara Lane-Toomey, “U.S. Government Factors Influencing an Expansion of Study Abroad in the Middle East/North Africa,” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 24 (2014): 121–140.
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Bevis, T.B. (2016). Summer Tramps: American Students in the Middle East. In: Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56863-2_3
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