By Dan Simpson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Last week saw a terrific flurry of activity in Pittsburgh surrounding the creation of the new Pittsburgh Middle East Institute. The institute is the product of at least a year and a half of hard work on the part of a small group of Pittsburghers, dedicated to belief in the importance [...]

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Duquesne Duke
By: Maddy Lauria
Attempting to serve as a liaison for business relations and communications between Pittsburgh and the Middle East, the Pittsburgh Middle East Institute hopes to take advantage of university resources in order to bolster educational ties between the two areas of the world.
Institute Director Simin Curtis hopes a partnership with Duquesne will be [...]

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Middle East Institute launched Sept. 16 with a dinner reception at the Duquesne Club for guest speaker New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman before his lecture at Heinz Hall.
First published on September 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

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