Creativity & Adaptive Leadership in Middle East & North Africa (CALMENA) Information

Through scholarship, dialogue, networking, and camaraderie, we promote the advancement of creativity and adaptive leadership in all academic fields pertaining to the greater Middle East & North Africa, looking to both the past and present to equip the leaders of our future. CALMENA is built on a vision of building bridges between research and practice, involving ambitious faculty and student associates who are unafraid of being referred to as “Practical Dreamers.” We believe that solutions to a number of complex issues in the Middle East & North Africa will present themselves through a process of collaboration between the students of today who will be our leaders tomorrow. We invite you to join us in seeking these solutions – regardless of your ethnic and religious background or political beliefs.