David L. Boren Awards for International Study

A Western Washington University student has won a scholarship to spend a year in Cairo, Egypt, studying the Arabic language.

Dana Rafter won the National Security Education Program's Boren Scholarship, which provides students with up to $20,000 to study in countries that are important to U.S. interests but aren't often visited for study abroad programs. Rafter will leave for Cairo's Al-Dawin Institute in August.

Rafter hopes to graduate in 2011 with a major in Arabic studies and German, with hopes of becoming a diplomat.

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