Middle East Initiative

A panel discussion with Salim Tamari, Spring 2018 Shawwaf Visiting Professor, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Birzeit University; Anat Biletski, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy, Quinnipiac University; and Robert Danin, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations and Senior Fellow, Future Diplomacy Project, HKS.

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 Ali Ahmad, Scholar In-Residence and Director, Energy Policy and Security in the Middle East Program, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut.

Co-sponsored by the Project on Managing the Atom and the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

A seminar with Dr. Amanda Sloat, Democracy in Hard Places Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Please join us for a film screening and panel discussion on The New Barbarianism, a CSIS original documentary directed by Justin Kenny and J. Stephen Morrison.

Sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at HKS. Complete list of co-sponsors below.

A seminar with Andrew March, Berggruen Fellow-in-Residence, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University and Visiting Fellow, Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change, Harvard Law School.

Co-sponsored by the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change at Harvard Law School.

Join us for a screening of Bekas (Iraq/Sweden, 2012), a Kurdish-language film directed by Karzan Kader. This screening has been rescheduled from the original date of November 16, which was postponed due to technical difficulties.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Middle East Initiative will co-sponsor a Director's Breakfast with Salam Fayyad on "The Case for Palestinian Empowerment, Especially Under Occupation" in the Belfer Center Library (L369). The event will be moderated by Nicholas Burns, Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Middle East Initiative. 

A panel discussion with Dr. Hala Aldosari, Robert G. James Scholar Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute; Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, Joint Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's Iran Project and Project on Managing the Atom; Jeffrey G. Karam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's International Security Program; and Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School.

This event is presented jointly by the Middle East Initiative, the Iran Project, and the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

A seminar with Joost Hiltermann, Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group.