The Salaam Program and AIESEC      |      The Salaam Experience      |      Partnership Opportunities      |      Student Opportunities

For over 50 years, AIESEC has been using international, paid, professional internships to build cultural understanding among the next generation of leaders and to increase cooperation among youth of different nations. In today's world, there is a growing perceived divide between the United States and the Arab World and AIESEC feels that the exchange of young people is a critical solution to this burgeoning issue. There is an urgent need for young people from the Middle Eastern and North African region and young people from the United States to understand each other's realities and cultures. There is an urgent need to build a new generation of business and societal leaders in the US and in the Arab World who understand the reality on the other side of the "perceived divide" and are able and willing to cross it. Only this will lead to the economic and social cooperation that stabilizes relations.

In response to this need AIESEC has launched the Salaam Program, a strategic effort to significantly expand the scope of cultural cooperation and mutual understanding between the US and the Arab world.

The Salaam Program is a joint initiative between Aiesec in the United States, Aiesec in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, in cooperation with the US State Department's Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs (ECA).