Overview
A key element of the East-West: The Art of Dialogue initiative in addition to the cultural exchange is the collaborative action projects.
The Gabr Fellows, leveraging their expertise and the depth of the exchange, work together in teams of both American and Egyptian members on collaborative action projects.
The projects address common challenges facing Eastern and Western societies. They also help to achieve the goals of the East-West: The Art of Dialogue initiative and ensure the program's sustainability and impact well beyond the term of the exchange.
Moreover, the projects serve to broaden the impact of the Gabr Fellowship on the Fellows' peers, communities, and societies with the goal of sustainable bridge-building across both the east and west.
2018 Action Project – The Link: Powering US-Egypt Relations
Team Hayley Rose, Shady Saleh, Ahmed Mostafa, and RJ Johnson The Challenge Today’s global issues…
More2018 Action Project – American-Egyptian Independent Film Festival (AEI Film Fest)
Team Marwa Abdalla Elsayed and Allison Feikes The Challenge There is a lack of understanding…
More2018 Action Project – East to West Podcast
Team Muhammad El Hawary, Karim El Sharkawy, Wes Rogerson, Charles Truxal, and Sarah Walker The…
More2018 Action Project – Virtual Writers’ Workshop
Team Soaad Hossam, Maram Osama, and Fabrice Guerrier The Challenge Storytelling is a universal way…
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2018 Action Project – From DC to Cairo, Not Just A Tourist Attraction
Team Katie Applebaum, Hanan Khayal, and Lauren Ziegler The Challenge Before the Fellows departed, many…
More2018 Action Project – Wontrepreneur – Connecting Women, East to West
Team Julie Yang, Yara El Braidy, and Hanan Khayal The Challenge The economic and social…
More2017 Action Project – East-West Chitchat Providing a media platform to amplify the East-West Dialogue
Team Abdelrahman Amr and Michael Matthiesen The Challenge Through East-West: The Art of Dialogue, the…
More2017 Action Project – FUSIC
Team Dalia Ihab Youssef and supporters Jean Kwon, Sherif Fathy Soliman, Heidi Green The Challenge…
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2017 Action Project – Gabr Fellows 360
Team Sarah Badr Hesham, Jack Gordon, Sherif Fathy Soliman, Hunter King The Challenge Following our…
More2017 Action Project – American-Egyptian Teachers Fellowship (AETF)
Team Jean Kwon and Neveen Saied The Challenge Despite an overabundance of information, there is…
More2017 Action Project – We Are One—نحن واحد
Team Menna Farouk, Reham Gamal, Ibrahim Hammouda, Michael Matthiesen, Jessica Mulligan, and Kristina Ryan The…
More2017 Action Project – Gabr Net
Team Courtney Joline, Tom Stein, Aly Salem, and Abdelrahman Amr The Challenge: As Egypt modernizes…
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2017 Action Project – Everyone’s Artifacts – The concept of the open source museum
Team Amr Seda, Bryan Griffin The Challenge: Making a catalogue of museum-quality artifact replicas available…
More2016 Action Project – When in Egypt
Team Kevin DeWar, Mohamed Elattar and Thomas Hanna The Challenge Egypt has experienced a significant…
More2016 Action Project – The East-West Education Forum
Team Heidi Green and Nayra Gadallah The Challenge A recent report by the World Economic…
More2016 Action Project – Universal Language: Connecting People Through Music
Team Kate Chiucchini, Chaza Abou Daher and Youssef El Toukhy The Challenge The relationship between…
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2016 Action Project – Egypt-US Startup Connection
Building Bridges of Innovation Through Youth Entrepreneurship Team Yasser El Zahhar, Hani Elzoumor, Robert Sheldon…
More2016 Action Project – Humans of Harmony
Team Shorouk Essam, Hadeel Adel and Katherine Tan The Challenge The mission at Humans of…
More2016 Action Project – East-West Virtual Book Club
Team Ahmed Aboul Naga, Iman Higazy, Abby Wiedenhaefer, John Ryan, Anis Issa, Hala Abdel Gawad…
More2015 Action Project – The Bridge: Building Bridges through Art
Team Ahmed Radwan, Bassma Fahim, Nick Dreselly The Challenge After the increase of terrorism around…
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2015 Action Project – Final VoteApp Civic Engagement Platform
Team Murray Abeles, Mike Burgess, Basma El Baz, Magdalena Kura The Challenge Since 2011 and…
More2015 Action Project – HADARA – New Perspectives, A Shafik Gabr Foundation Publication
Team Ahmed Mohamed, Eze Redwood, Elisabeth Dent The Challenge In a strained interval between Egypt…
More2015 Action Project – Cooking Up Cultures
Team Casey Smith, Mohamed Ismail, Ola Ali The Challenge Cooking Up Arabic is a vital…
More2015 Action Project – Cleopatra to Coretta
Team Afnan Khalil, Hadir Helal, Judson Moore, Leah Moschella, Michelle Matus The Challenge Western mainstream…
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2015 Action Project – Final Because Baseball: Diamond Diplomacy
Team Kemp Gouldin, Muhammad Nagi The Challenge The field (or court) of play is an…
More2014 Action Project – Women 360 (Improving Market Pathways for Female Entrepreneurs)
Team Stephanie Cate, Ahmed El-Assal, Dina Gamal Project Duration 09/01/2014 to 09/01/2016 (Pilot) Population Served…
More2014 Action Project – The Culture Box
Team Chase Bowman, Ahmed El Naggar, Shehab Farouk, Ahmed Naguib, Erika Witt Now more than…
More2014 Action Project – The Creative Hub
Team Yasmin Galal, Elizabeth Trapp, Suzanne Youngner Project Duration July 2014 – July 2016 Population…
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2014 Action Project – Summer Institute
Team Nourhan Moussa, Nathan Thomas In this program, the Fellows are planning to design and…
More2014 Action Project – East-West Newspaper & Website
Team Michael Goff , Nancy Habib The project consists of two parts: Printed newspaper Website…
More2014 Action Project – Center for Global Citizenship
Team Jeremiah Bowden, Sarah Derdowski, Zeyad El-Kelani Project Duration 09/01/2014 to 09/01/2015 (Pilot) Population Served…
More2013 Action Project – Toward Sustained Renewable Energy Policy in Egypt
Team Christina Fallon, Moataz Hussein, Morgan Williams Goal To foster the creation of renewable energy…
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2013 Action Project – Shared Distance
Team Noha Eid, Alex Goldmark, Mohammed Mubarak Goal To help break down stereotypes, encourage interaction,…
More2013 Action Project – Perception: A Creative Investigation of Cross-Cultura
Team Mariam Ibrahim, Heba Safwat, Jeff Walls Goal To design and create an interactive application…
More2013 Action Project – LEAD-ETKALLEM
Team Becca Doten, Mohga Morsy, Reem Soliman, Daniel Sullivan Goal There are two challenges we…
More2013 Action Project – Healthy Innovation by Empowering Cross-Cultura
Team Ahmed Ahmed, Haroun Habib, Amr Ismaeil, Leslie Lang Goal To address existing needs in…
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2013 Action Project – Digitized Comic: “Beyond Exceptionalism” – East/West
Team Beth Cartier, Ahmed Elhabibi, Amr Ismaeil, Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez Goal To create a digital comic…
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