Middle East Initiative

Nadya Hajj, Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Co-Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College, will discuss her latest book, Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age. 

This virtual workshop, co-hosted by the Office of the Chief Economist - Middle East and North Africa, World Bank, will feature MEI Senior Fellow  Rabah Arezki, Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank, Ferid Belhaj, Vice President, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank, MEI Faculty Director Tarek Masoud, Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School, Ha Nguyen, Senior Economist, MENA Chief Economist’s Office, World Bank, and others.

 A seminar with Steve L. Monroe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and PhD in Politics, Princeton University.

Paper Authors: Carolyn Barnett, Amaney Jamal, and Steve Monroe

Light lunch will be served at this event.

Note: Date and location have changed to Thursday, Feb 13 in Taubman, Nye A

A seminar with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo.

A seminar with Dr. Salam Fayyad, MEI Senior Fellow and Former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (2007-2013) and Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South East Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Director, Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard Kennedy School. Light lunch will be served.

Co-sponsored by Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard Kennedy School.

A seminar with Diana B. Greenwald, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Assistant Professor of Political Science, City College of New York (Fall 2018). Part of the Middle East Initiative Research Fellows Seminar Series.

A public address by Dr. Salam Fayyad, MEI Senior Fellow and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (2007-2013).

RSVP requested, not required.

A seminar with Ishac Diwan, MEI Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar and Chaire D'Excellence Monde Arabe, Paris Sciences et Lettres and Hugh Roberts, Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University.

A seminar on Evidence for Policy Design's (EPoD) work designing, implementing, and rigorously testing policies and programs in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Labor and Social Development with EPoD staff members Field Research Manager Wallied Shirzoi, Senior Research Fellow Jawaher Al Sudairy, and Senior Research Manager Alexander Hall.

Co-sponsored by Evidence for Policy Design at Harvard's Center for International Development.

Members of the World Bank's Global Governance Practice and Middle East and North Africa Regional team Edouard al-Dahdah, Shantayanan Devarajan and Renaud Seligmann present the findings of the World Bank's World Development Report 2017 on Governance and Law and the implications of the report for the World Bank's MENA operations. Moderated by Ishac Diwan, MEI Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar and Chaire D’Excellence Monde Arabe, Paris Sciences et Lettres.