While writing centers and writing fellows programs have been integral components of many colleges and universities in North America, these models of student-to-student learning are starting to develop in postsecondary institutions in other parts of the world, particularly in the Arabian Gulf. In particular, there are growing number of international universities with writing centers that depend on peer-tutor support. One such university is the American University of Sharjah (AUS), which, when the author first arrived in 2005, already had a thriving student-staffed writing center; with tutors trained "on the job." In view of the growing importance peer tutoring was taking at AUS--and with the support of the Writing Department Chair and the Writing Center Director--the author proposed teaching a three-credit, semester-long writing tutor training course, which has since become a part of AUS curriculum. In this article, the author first describes the specific context in which her class arose and then delineates the ways in which it both enacts and revises the pedagogies of one-to-one tutoring that have developed in North America.