Sultan Qaboos University
In 2010, Allen taught at the University of Kabul Center for Afghanistan Studies and School of Communication. Funded by a grant from the US State Department to help develop the university's journalism program, Allen's students included undergraduates and educators. In addition to teaching journalism skills such as how to shoot video and how to write a TV script, Allen lectured on the role of social networking in the modern media and the importance of investigative journalism in the United States. In 2011-2012, he taught at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman as a member of the mass communications faculty and spoke at the first annual US Fulbright Conference at the US Embassy in Oman.