MEPI program students rescheduled on CNN today

CNN’s Jim Clancy (second from left), co-host of ‘Your World Today,’ interviews four Arab students who studying at UD this summer under a grant from the U.S. State Department. The students are (from left) Falastin Dwikat from the West Bank in the Middle East, Sherine El-Taraboulisi from Egypt, Majid Yagout from Yemen and Hajer Elloumi from Tunisia.

10:55 a.m., Aug. 1, 2005--Four Arab college students who are participating in a UD institute on leadership and American studies this summer are scheduled to appear on the CNN cable news network on Monday, Aug. 1, during the noon news hour, according to Ralph Begleiter, Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence.

Previously slated for Friday’s broadcast of Your World Today, live coverage of arrests in London of alleged terrorists pre-empted broadcast of the segment.

The interview was conducted during a five-hour visit to CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta that included a two-hour question-and-answer session with CNN's senior editorial management. All the students in the program participated in the visit, and four were selected to be interviewed.

Coordinated by the University's Center for International Studies, the institute is supported by a $320,000 grant from the U.S. State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative. The program, which began July 5 and ends Aug. 20, aims to show the students what America is about and what the American people are like. The 21 undergraduates come from Middle Eastern and North African countries.

Photo by Ralph Begleiter

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