Middle East Initiative

Join us for MEI's short films program about child protection and migration followed by a panel discussion with the film makers. The program is featuring the following three short films: Tomorrow's Children, Today They Took My Son and Ayny. The panel discussion will feature Oula A. Alrifai and Mouhanad Al Rifay of Tomorrow's Children and Farah Nabulsi of Today They Took My Son.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

A seminar with Amin Awad, Director, Middle East and North Africa Bureau, UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).

A seminar with May Al-Dabbagh, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University Abu Dhabi with an associated appointment at NYU in New York. Previously, she was the Founder and Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program and a Research Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.

A seminar with students from the MEI-supported Middle East Field Study Course: Humanitarian Negotiations on the Frontlines, moderated by Professor Claude Bruderlein.

A seminar with Dr. Akihiro Seita, Director of the Health and WHO Special Representative at UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East).

Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Health Delivery-Dubai at Harvard Medical School.

A seminar with Alexandra Stark, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. Candidate, Georgetown University.

A seminar with Avital Livny, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A seminar with Soli Özel, Tom and Andi Bernstein Human Rights Fellow, Schell Center, Yale Law School; Lecturer, Political Science Department and International Relations Department, Kadir Has University, Istanbul.

Co-sponsored by the Özyeğin Forum on Modern Turkey, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

A seminar with Lillian Frost, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. Candidate, George Washington University.

In honor of International Women’s Day, join the Middle East Initiative (MEI) and Just Vision for a screening of the documentary film Naila and the Uprising followed by a panel discussion with Professor Erica Chenoweth, Suhad Babaa, and Hilary Rantisi. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School, the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, and the Committee on the Concerns of Women.