Following an invitation from the International Visitor Leadership Program, and the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy UVU recently hosted a visit from seven leaders in higher education from the Near East.

The leaders included: Mr. Ammar Abdulammer Radhi AL-SALLAMI, Vice President of Islamic University in Iraq;  Mr. Jasem A M A ALMEJBEL, Assisting Coordinator for Public Relations, Training and Development Department, Ministry of Education in Kuwait; Mr. Mansour Khalid A ALNAHDI, Administrator and Instructor of Jeddah College of Technology in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Mohammed Naser Ali Mohamed NJMY, Section Chief of Engineering Drawing at the Vocational Training Centre in Sudan;  Mr. Saleh Omar Abdulla BALFAQEEH, Director of Abu Dhabi Campus, Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies in the United Arab Emirates; Mr. Ismail Ali Thabit AL-MWALD, Deputy Minister of Curricula and Supervision Sector in Yemen, and Mr. Ameen Mohammed Saeed YAHYA, Vice Dean of Alsaleh Institute in Yemen.