
Alaa Abouelfetouh
Lecturer in Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University · Alexandria, Egypt
Since 1949, nearly 8,000 Egyptian and American Fulbrighters have become agents of change — in classrooms, laboratories, newsrooms, studios and ministries on both sides of the Atlantic. These are some of their stories.

Lecturer in Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University · Alexandria, Egypt


Associate Professor of Vocal Studies, Oklahoma State University · Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Research Study Assistant, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, U.S.A.

Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Helwan University · Cairo, Egypt


Research Associate for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations · New York, U.S.A.


Program Assistant, Foreign Fulbright Program, AMIDEAST · Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Faculty member, Faculty of Arts, Fayoum University · Fayoum, Egypt


Professor of Criminology, University of Houston–Clear Lake · Texas, U.S.A.


Foreign Language Teaching Assistant · Arabic language & Egyptian culture, U.S.A.




Across seven decades, Egyptian and American Fulbrighters have built one binational family — bound not by borders, but by the conviction that understanding begins with people.
— The Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt