Minami in Egypt, where he studied Arabic — and witnessed a country in the midst of a revolution.
Lōkela Alexander Minami, (BA, Political Science, German Language & Literature, 2010; MA, International Studies: Middle East, 2012), Seattle Opera Associate Director of Community Engagement, is featured in an article titled, “Building connections through opera” in the January issue of Perspectives, a magazine by the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington.
Minami is also an alum of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program, a competitive federally-funded scholarship open to UW students that is administered by National Resource Centers housed in the Jackson School. In Summer 2012 Minami received a FLAS award from the Middle East Center to study intensive third-year Arabic at The American University in Cairo, a tumultuous period that coincided with the Arab Spring and fall of the Mubarak regime.
