Name: Saifuddin Quraishi

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2014

School Name: Harvard University

Major: Nonprofit Business

Description: S. Quraishi graduated with honors from Austin College with a bachelor’s degree in political science. While there, he researched the “Arab Spring” uprisings in his undergraduate thesis. He also spent five weeks in Syria during the revolution, studying Arabic at an advanced level, and he passed the Foreign Service Officer Test. He also graduated from Harvard University, studying business, with the hopes of bringing his expertise to educational non-profits working in the US and abroad.

Sponsor: Syed Ibrahim Memorial fund for the Greater Boston Region