Our Story

Working with the Ibn Rushd Cultural Center in Richmond, Virginia, AGI has supported cultural programs featuring performers and speakers from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Africa. These gatherings give Virginians opportunities to experience other cultures firsthand, hear different perspectives, and build relationships.

AGI’s cultural engagement has also connected museums, artists, and audiences across borders. Its work has included helping bring a delegation from the Cleveland Museum to Bahrain and presenting Bahraini paintings and cultural works in Texas. In Virginia and the Washington, D.C., area, AGI has supported African exhibitions that introduce audiences to the continent’s artistic expression and cultural diversity.

These exchanges extend to congressional engagement. In Hargeisa, AGI helped bring a U.S. congressional staff delegation to a Somaliland theater performance, creating an opportunity to experience local culture through the performing arts. Four separate congressional delegations to Africa also included cultural events, allowing participants to experience African art and music alongside their official meetings.

In collaboration with the Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI), AGI has participated in programs bringing community representatives from around the world to Washington, D.C., and New York to learn about America and its institutions. These visits create space for questions, discussion, and a more personal understanding of American public life.

AGI has also brought retired athletes, including professional wrestlers and other sports personalities, to Bahrain as motivational speakers, sharing experiences of perseverance, discipline, and achievement.

Its wider engagement in the Gulf has included speaking programs involving prominent American public figures, among them General Wesley Clark, former Ambassador John Bolton, and former Congressmen Dan Burton and Solomon Ortiz. These encounters have offered audiences opportunities to discuss American politics, international affairs, and public service directly with people who have helped shape them.

AGI has teamed up with ten American universities and colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Kansas State University, to bring young people from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to summer camps in the United States. These programs combine educational experiences with cultural exchange, giving GCC youth opportunities to experience American campus life and connect with new communities.

Alongside these cultural and educational exchanges, AGI’s story includes humanitarian work undertaken through American Global Consulting (AGC) and partners in the United States.

Across Sudan, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Chad, Uganda, and South Sudan, this work has focused on mobilizing assistance for communities facing hunger, hardship, and shortages of essential medical resources. Through multiple American partners, these efforts have helped deliver humanitarian assistance, medicines, medical supplies, and equipment to communities in need.

Under the banner “America Extending a Hand,” this commitment brings a practical dimension to international friendship: connecting those able to help with those who need support.

AGI also helped arrange a visit by members of the U.S. Congress to a breast cancer center in Khartoum, Sudan. Following the visit, General Electric (GE) donated medical equipment to the center, helping strengthen its capacity to care for patients. This initiative connected congressional engagement with practical support for local healthcare.