Youth Leadership Development Program / Model Arab League

The National Council's Youth Leadership Development Program / Model Arab League (YLDP/MAL) holds educational conferences across the United States for students at both the university and high school levels. Through YLDP/MAL, students learn about the politics and history of the Arab world, and the arts of diplomacy and public speech. YLDP/MAL helps prepare students to be knowledgeable, well-trained, and effective citizens as well as civic and public affairs leaders.

Learn more about YLDP/MAL, find a conference near you, and register to participate!

• MAL Homepage
• About MAL
• Video: Intro to MAL
• At the Cutting Edge: The National Council’s Youth Leadership Development Program / Model Arab League

Congressional & Public Affairs Briefings

The National Council periodically sponsors public educational programs on Capitol Hill, around Washington, DC, and online where an assemblage of domestic and internationally renowned specialists analyze, discuss, and debate issues of importance to the relationship between the U.S. and the Arab countries, the Middle East, and the Islamic world. These events examine how best to strengthen and expand mutual Arab-U.S. trust, confidence, and benefits while examining a range of complex issues, interests, and policies.

• Vision or Mirage Book Discussion & Perspectives on U.S. Relationships in Arabia and the Gulf
• Beyond the Proxy War: The Search for a Solution to the Crisis in Libya
• Eye on Oman: Constancy Amid Modernization and Development
• Sports Diplomacy in the Middle East
• The Life of Sultan Qaboos Bin Said (1940-2020): Context, Reflections, Perspectives
• Strategic Dynamics of Iran’s Continuing Asymmetric Warfare

Student Internship and Summer Scholars Program

The National Council's Internship and Summer Scholars Program offers undergraduate and graduate students a ten-week professional, academic, and career opportunity internship with an organization from the nation’s capital. The program features a demanding mix of professional involvement, intellectual challenge, career exploration, and cross-cultural encounters designed to provide students with a rich and varied experience.

• 2021 Internship and Summer Scholars Program Information
• Summer Internship Program Home

Annual Oman Cultural Immersion Program

The National Council's Malone Fellows in Arab and Islamic Studies Annual Cultural Immersion Program in Oman provides a privileged first hand exposure to one of the most historically and culturally rich of all Arab and Islamic societies. The study visit unfolds primarily in half a dozen different regions outside the Sultanate’s capital of Muscat. It does so in order to allow delegation members to experience the dynamics of what is not only one of the Arab world’s most demographically, geographically, economically, and socially diverse countries. It does so also because of Oman’s position adjacent to the Hormuz Strait, arguably the world’s most strategically vital waterway.

• Oman Cultural Immersion Program Information
• Paige Peterson - "Oman – The Pearl of Arabia" [Extended Photo Essay] (Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog, May 3, 2016)