Rotary Scholar Will Todman Spoke About Arab Studies at Georgetown and Trip to Jordan at Rotary Club Meeting on January 8, 2015

Posted by Bob Nelson

on Jan 15, 2015

President Caesar Kavadoy congratulates Rotary Scholar Will Todman for his presentation at the meeting on January 8, 2015. Will is from a very small village in England, and graduated from Oxford last summer where he studied Arabic and Modern Hebrew. He's now doing an MA in Arab Studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, with a focus on Middle East politics and humanitarian emergencies. He's currently working part time for an advisor to the UN's Special Envoy to Syria too. He talked a about where he's from in England, a bit about Oxford, and then about what he has been doing at Georgetown so far. Last month he traveled to north Jordan with one of his professors to help her with her research with Syrian refugees.

[Above] President Elect Bob Fuhrman (right) and Nihad Kaibni (left) have a "fireside chat" with Potomac-Bethesda Rotary's newest member, Monica Farmer. [Below] We welcomed back Past President Jerry Gross at the first meeting of 2015.