Middle East Dialogues: A Conversation with Nasser Alkidwa

Name: Middle East Dialogues: A Conversation with Nasser Alkidwa
Start: 2026-04-01T10:00:00-0400
End: 2026-04-01T11:30:00-0400

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A conversation between MEI Faculty Chair Tarek Masoud and Nasser Alkidwa, member of the Palestinian National Council and former Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority.

This event is part of the Middle East Initiative's Middle East Dialogues series. Additional series speakers this semester include Dan Senor. Please scroll down for further details about the series.

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Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2026 Time: 10:00am - 11:30am

Host
Tarek Masoud

Middle East Dialogue with Nasser Alkidwa on April 1, 2026

About the Series

This event is part of the Middle East Initiative's Spring 2026 Middle East Dialogues, a series of frank, open, and probing encounters with vital and varied perspectives on the conflict, its causes, and the prospects for peace and progress in the region.

Spring 2026 Middle East Dialogues Schedule:

March 11, 2026: A Conversation with Dan Senor, political analyst, host of the Call Me Back podcast, and co-author of The Genius of Israel

April 1, 2026: A Conversation with Nasser Alkidwa, member of the Palestinian National Council and former Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority

Prior Middle East Dialogues sessions may be watch here.

About the Speaker

Dr. Nasser Al-Kidwa is a prominent member of Fatah and a member of the Palestinian National Council (PNC). He served as the PLO/Palestine Observer to the United Nations in New York from 1991 to 2004 and played a key role in bringing Palestine’s case against Israel’s Wall to the International Court of Justice in 2003–2004.

In 2005, he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2012, he was appointed Deputy Special Envoy of the UN–LAS Joint Special Mission for Syria under the leadership of Kofi Annan. He also served from 2014 to 2015 as the League of Arab States Special Envoy to Libya.

In 2021, he founded the National Democratic Assembly and headed the “Freedom” list for the Palestinian elections that were arbitrarily canceled. Both the creation of the National Democratic Assembly and the “Freedom” list led to his expulsion from the Fatah Central Committee and his removal as Head of the Yasser Arafat Foundation. He was subsequently reinstated to Fatah’s membership and its Central Committee.

In 2024, he developed a Joint Proposal with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a political solution.

Born in Gaza in 1953, he graduated as a dentist from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University. He is presently a member of the Board of the International Crisis Group.