Building Bridges with an Islamic Culture
The University of Montana and the College of Arts and Sciences are helping Montanans build bridges with Pakistan—one friendship at a time. Sixteen-year-old Katie Mikelsons said she used to think that people in Islamic countries “went around shooting each other and were bad.” But that was before she got to know Tayyab Mahmood Rai and others through a grant that brings Pakistani educators to Missoula to learn how American teachers teach and to build bridges between the two cultures.
The three-year grant, one of only two awarded nationally, is funded by USAID and administered by UM’s Office of International Read More...
