Convening expertise on the Middle East
Harvard and the Kennedy School continue to host thought-provoking conversations on the Israel-Hamas war, convening Middle East experts with a variety of perspectives. The Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative (MEI), based in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, launched a Middle East Dialogues series, in which MEI director Professor Tarek Masoud speaks with guests who, he writes, “could not be more different from each other in terms of their beliefs, commitments, and analyses of the present situation.” The first of these dialogues took place on February 15, with Jared Kushner, former senior advisor to President Trump and architect of the 2020 Abraham Accords. Last week MEI fellow Adel Hamaizia also spoke about the grave economic impacts in the region at a Harvard panel. The Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has also hosted experts on the conflict, including a virtual conversation last week between Carr Center director Professor Mathias Risse and U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. |