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Managing Escalation: A Conversation with Mohammed Alyahya, Advisor to the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs H.H. Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Mohammed Alyahya, former MEI Senior Fellow and current Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia H.H. Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, will discuss the ongoing war in Gaza and the recent escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah from the Saudi perspective. This event is off the record and open to HUID holders only. Registration is required.

Date: Time: - Location: Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor
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Mohammed Alyahya

Mohammed Khalid Alyahya is an advisor to the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia HH Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud.

He was a senior fellow at the Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, for the Fall 2023 semester where he taught a study group on great power competition in the Middle East. He was also a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Middle East Peace and Security.

From 2019 to 2023, he was the editor-in-chief of Al Arabiya English, the digital English language service of the largest pan-Arab free-to-air regional news network. He was a senior research fellow at the Gulf Research Centre and a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. His analysis has been published by the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the Royal United Services Institute in London. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Telegraph, the Guardian, and The Independent among other outlets. He has also appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CNN and CNBC, among other outlets.

Alyahya has a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Political Science with a concentration on International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.