{"id":7107,"date":"2017-09-19T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.alj3.clients.lemonhq.io\/quick-reads\/mena-set-benefit-mit-plans\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:38:20","slug":"mena-set-benefit-mit-plans","status":"publish","type":"quickreads","link":"https:\/\/cms.alj3.clients.lemonhq.io\/en\/quick-reads\/mena-set-benefit-mit-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"MENA set to benefit from MIT plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MENA region is set to benefit from increased activities in education, research, innovation and service under a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/globalstrategy\/\">new global strategy<\/a>&nbsp;unveiled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIT \u2013 a key long standing Community Jameel partner on initiatives such as tackling the causes of global poverty, on securing water and food supplies, driving a renaissance in education, (including scholarships with Toyota), and supporting young entrepreneurs \u2013 plans to increase its international activities in the Middle East and North Africa region. &nbsp;This includes new efforts to cultivate and coordinate faculty and institute-level collaborations in different regions of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.alj3.clients.lemonhq.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fady-Mohammed-Jameel-225x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13870\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.alj.com\/en\/our-people\/fady-jameel\/\">Fady Mohammed Jameel<\/a>, President of Community Jameel International, said:&nbsp;<em>\u201cMIT is increasing its focus on the Middle East and North Africa as part of its global strategy to help improve lives is welcome news.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>As a key partner in the Middle East, Community Jameel is proud to work closely with MIT on a range of initiatives to tackle pressing regional challenges, including alleviating poverty through J-PAL, improving food and water safety and security through J-WAFS, and sparking a renaissance in education through the recently announced Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We are also helping young students from the region study at MIT through the Jameel-Toyota Scholarship program.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cOur partnership with MIT has the potential to help transform communities in Saudi Arabia and make a real difference to improving lives in the region<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on how Community Jameel is&nbsp;<em>\u2018helping communities to transform themselves\u2019<\/em>, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/communityjameel.org\/\">communityjameel.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7110,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-7107","quickreads","type-quickreads","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MENA set to benefit from MIT plans - Abdul Latif Jameel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MENA set to benefit from MIT plans - Abdul Latif Jameel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The MENA region is set to benefit from increased activities in education, research, innovation and service under a&nbsp;new global strategy&nbsp;unveiled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 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