Karas

Adam Karas, 21, Frisco, Texas, is a senior at Carleton College, majoring in international relations with a concentration in the Middle East and East Asia. He received the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic and also spent a month in Yemen at the Yemen Institute for Arabic Language. He studied Hebrew for two months at the University of Haifa and is also learning Chinese. He was one of 30 Carleton students selected to participate in the college’s Middle East Mosaics Seminar, traveling and studying in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco.