For this conversation, we invited a panel of experts who discussed history, contemporary challenges, and future directions of education throughout the Arab World. Among those experts were University of Pennsylvania students: Asma Alkadi and Christine Nasserghodsi are Doctor of Education students, and Dahlia El Zein and Gareth Smith are Ph.D. students. This was moderated by the Penn Graduate School of Education's Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher.