Middle East Matters
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Conversations with newsmakers, scholars, intellectuals, and activists on the challenges and opportunities facing the Middle East, brought to you by the Middle East Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School.
Middle East Matters
3y ago
This episode of Middle East Matters is the seventh installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.” Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguished Arab thought-leaders to get their perspective on American politics. Masoud and Haggag are joined in this episode by Mohammed Alyahya, Editor-in-Chief of&nb ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
This episode of Middle East Matters is the sixth installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.” Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguished Arab thought-leaders to get their perspective on American politics. Masoud and Haggag are joined in this episode by Raghida Dergham, award-winning journ ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguished Arab thought-leaders to get their perspective on American politics. Masoud and Haggag are joined in this episode by Mina al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief of the United Arab Emirates’ premier English language newspaper, The National. This conversation occurred before the 2020 US presidential ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguished Arab thought-leaders to get their perspective on American politics. Masoud and Haggag are joined in this episode by Ayad Allawi, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq. This conversation occurred before the 2020 US presidential election ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguished Arab thought-leaders to get their perspective on American politics. Masoud and Haggag are joined in this episode by Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an award-winning Kuwaiti-Palestinian-American reporter and broadcaster. This conversation occurred before the 2020 US presidential election ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguished Arab thought-leaders to get their perspective on American politics. Masoud and Haggag are joined in this episode by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a renowned political scientist and public intellectual from Dubai. This conversation occurred before the 2020 US presidential election ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
Throughout this series, Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Director and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, and Ambassador Karim Haggag, professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, will speak with distinguished Arab thought-leaders to get their perspective on American politics. Masoud and Haggag are joined in this episode by Nabil Fahmy, former Foreign Minister of Egypt and Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public P ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
A week before recording this episode, the U.S. Congress released a report directly naming Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the party responsible for the October 2018 murder of the Saudi columnist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The Biden administration has imposed a ban on several leading Saudi officials who were also implicated in that crime, but it has conspicuously avoided slapping sanctions on the crown prince himself, setting off a debate in this country about the proper U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia and with Saudi Arabia's leaders. MEI Faculty Director Tarek Masoud ..read more
Middle East Matters
3y ago
Episode Contributors:
Guest
Mina Al-Oraibi
Editor-in-Chief, The National
Yale World Fellow
Hosts
Tarek Masoud
Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Director, Middle East Initiative
Karim Haggag
Visiting Fellow, Middle East Initiative (2020-2021)
Professor of Practice, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo (AUC)
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