The Middle Eastern countries face considerable challenges in the areas of conflict resolution, water resources, desertification, global climate change, unemployment and higher education. These challenges have also generated opportunities for international collaboration to device approaches, policies and techniques to address issues within the context of regional and global sustainable development. For more than 15 years, Prof. Inyang has contributed to sustainable development programs of Middle Eastern countries through collaboration with academic institutions, hosting and supervision of research performed by visiting Middle East scholars and promotion of the citizens into important positions of responsibility in the international professional organizations and activities that he has led. In 2000, he served as an International Scientific Committee Member of a major conference on the environment in Muscat, Oman. Subsequently upon the invitation of universities in the region: Sultan Qaboos University (Oman, 2006), and United Arab Emirates University (UAE, 2004), he has been an external evaluator of faculty members for tenure and promotion. On behalf of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright program), he hosted and collaborated with Prof. Ahmed Al-Oumar of Al Baath University (Syria) from 2001 to 2002 at the research institute that he directected at the
University of North Carolina. He served as a research supervisor of a student intern (Mr.
Rizk al Rouhban) who was sent to him by the American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 2005. His former graduate student Ms. May Hourani, a Palestine-American who is now a design engineer, was one of his best students ever. During his time as a research center director at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, he was opportuned to establish a longterm research relationship with Dr. Alex Iskandar, an Egyptian, on environmental issues. Since then, he has supported the greater involvement of Middle Eastern scholars in global sustainable development efforts, and has served as invited reviewer of research projects and proposals within programs operated by public agencies, and institutions in Israel, Jordan, Oman and UAE.
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