America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. (AMIDEAST) and the British Education Counseling Service (ECS) are two of the key driving forces in promoting higher education all over the Middle East and North Africa. Hundred of thousands of students from the region have passed through these two organizations in their quest for higher education abroad. AMIDEAST (founded in 1951) is a private, nonprofit organization, whose declared primer goal is "to strengthen ...