So, Walid, this Saudi student at the University of Southern California was in Pennsylvania talking with some Amish farmers about their camels…
A lot has been made of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) established in 2005 to encourage Saudi students to study abroad. It is a truly ambitious enterprise that has propelled 150,000+ Saudi young people abroad with over 80,000 of them coming to the United States; by far the preferred destination of KASP participants.
The Saudi-US Trade Group views KASP as a transformational initiative whose ultimate impact on Saudi society and economy and the U.S.-Saudi relationship can only be guessed at.
That said, in her terrific article for The Atlantic, A Nice Tall Glass of Camel’s Milk, Olga Khazan, highlights a real-world example of having so many Saudi students in America.
Desert Farms camel milk may or may not make Walid Abdul-Wahab, his American suppliers, distributors and Whole Foods stores a ton of money. Regardless, the very successful human network created by Walid is already in the bank.
