Middle East Dialogues: A Conversation with Robert Malley

Name: Middle East Dialogues: A Conversation with Robert Malley
Start: 2025-10-30T16:30:00-0400
End: 2025-10-30T18:00:00-0400

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

A conversation between MEI Faculty Chair Professor Tarek Masoud and Robert Malley, former U.S. Special Envoy for Iran under the Biden Administration. This event is part of the Middle East Initiative's Middle East Dialogues, a series of in-depth conversations with leading scholars, intellectuals, and public servants exposing students and the public to varied and vital perspectives on the region, the transformations and turmoil underway, and prospects for peace and prosperity.

This event is open in person to HUID holders only and registration is required.

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Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2025 Time: 04:30pm - 06:00pm Location: Nye A, B, & C, 5th Floor

Moderator
Tarek Masoud

About the Speaker

Robert Malley is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is the author, with Hussein Agha, of Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine.

Mr. Malley has served as Special Envoy for Iran under President Joe Biden; White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Region under President Barack Obama; and Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs under President Bill Clinton. He was also President and CEO of the International Crisis Group.

Mr. Malley served as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court in 1991-1992. He is a graduate of Yale University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam, and of articles published in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Le Monde, and several other publications.