{"id":35609,"date":"2015-03-04T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=35609"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:16:19","slug":"wright-state-excels-at-model-arab-league-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/03\/04\/wright-state-excels-at-model-arab-league-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State excels at Model Arab League Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35610\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/03\/Arab-League-Team-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35610\" class=\"size-large wp-image-35610\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/03\/Arab-League-Team-2015-508x361.jpg\" alt=\"Model Arab League Club members\" width=\"460\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State students were honored with eight awards at the Ohio Valley Model Arab League Conference held at Miami University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State students came home with eight awards in the annual Ohio Valley Model Arab League Conference held at Miami University.<\/p>\n<p>Led by associate <a href=\"http:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/political-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political science<\/a> professor and faculty adviser Vaughn Shannon and English\/political science major and head delegate Georgina Liso, the Model Arab League Club had 10 participating students representing two countries, Egypt and Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>The student honorees were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outstanding Delegation: Egypt group<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Delegate on the Joint Defense Council: Mike Gross, international and comparative politics major<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention on the Palestinian Affairs Committee: Allyson Clark, international studies major<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Delegate on the Palestinian Affairs Committee: Kirsten Smith, French major<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Delegate on the Environmental Affairs Committee: Kuyer Fazekas, international and comparative politics major<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Delegate on the Environmental Affairs Committee: Jonathan Maze, international and comparative politics major<\/li>\n<li>Honorable mention on the Political Affairs Committee: Dan Clark<\/li>\n<li>Honorable mention on the Social Affairs Committee: Stephanie Dagher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Josh Cummins, a Wright State alumnus of the international and comparative politics program, won Outstanding Chair for his role in running the Joint Defense Council.<\/p>\n<p>The Model Arab League Club is in its third year. Students interested in participating in the 2015-16 academic year may contact Vaughn Shannon at <a href=\"mailto:Vaughn.shannon@wright.edu\">vaughn.shannon@wright.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State students received eight awards in the annual Ohio Valley Model Arab League Conference at Miami University. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/03\/04\/wright-state-excels-at-model-arab-league-conference\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":35610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,747,715,4855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129660,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35609\/revisions\/129660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}