Inside the Middle East: Q&A Series with Mohamad Al-Ississ

In our first installment of “Inside the Middle East: Q&A,” Professor Mohamad Al-Ississ, Spring 2014 Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Middle East Initiative, discusses his current research at Harvard Kennedy School, the constraints on economic development in the Middle East and attempts at education reform in the region. You can watch the interview, conducted by Zane Preston, editor at the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and Master’s Candidate at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, here:

Professor Mohamad Al-Ississ is the Spring 2014 Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Middle East Initiative. He is an Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo in the School of Business and the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His professional experiences include working as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, serving as a senior advisor to Jordanian ministers of Industry and Trade and managing a portfolio of USAID projects in Jordan.

“Inside the Middle East: Q&A” is a co-production of the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and the Middle East Initiative. The Q&A video series brings together political scientists, policymakers, academics, politicians, historians and other social scientists for discussions of critical issues in the Middle East.