Arturo Siguenza is a fourth-year UCLA undergraduate double majoring in International Development Studies and Arabic. His interests focus on political development within the Middle East and the evolution of global terrorism. Arturo has worked as a Research Assistant under Melissa T. Myambo, a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA International Institute, assisting on her comparative projects on changing migration trends. He is currently a member of Professor Steven R. Spiegel’s Research Team at the Center for Middle East Development and is interning for the Dean’s Office at the David Geffen School of Medicine.