A New Model for American Colleges Abroad: Quiet Partner

MIT is the behind-the-scenes developer of an ambitious new technology institute in the Persian Gulf

For the past two years, a steady stream of visitors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made the roughly 7,000-mile trek from Cambridge to this gleaming desert city on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula.

They are here to help build what aspires to be the first graduate-level research university devoted entirely to fostering renewable, clean, and sustainable sources

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