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Middle East

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In northern Syria, Amy Austin Holmes conducts interviews

In the crosshairs of an academic crackdown

Sociologist Amy Austin Holmes thought she was safely under the radar in Cairo. She was wrong.

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DateApril 19, 2019April 22, 2019

MY Phoenix, a search and rescue ship and a Swedish coast guard ship rescue 450 people.

None if by sea

Radcliffe fellow whose NGO assisted 77,000 Mediterranean immigrants believes the current moment will pass — eventually

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DateApril 2, 2019April 2, 2019

Poetry, conflict, and context

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DateOctober 13, 2015May 2, 2019

Breaking down the Middle East

Widening chaos, conflict threaten to destabilize region for years, analysts say

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DateApril 1, 2015May 31, 2019

“ISIS communicates perfectly well through YouTube and Twitter and Facebook. It doesn’t need us,” said Jeffrey Goldberg (center), a national correspondent for The Atlantic. “Something radical has shifted in the way some of these terrible groups have seen us, and so I can’t in good conscience tell anybody to go anywhere near this conflict anymore.”

A price too high

Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg reflects on the end of Middle East war correspondents, and what is lost

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DateNovember 19, 2014

In a panel talk moderated by Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman (from left), Meghan O'Sullivan, Nicholas Burns, and Michael Ignatieff assessed the global threat now posed by the Sunni jihadist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Cruel summer

Violence in the Middle East and what it means for the future

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DateSeptember 11, 2014June 6, 2019

Three veteran war correspondents talk about the increasingly dangerous job of reporting from conflict zones. New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall (seated, left) has covered Afghanistan since the 9/11 attacks. Gall, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, is now the North Africa bureau chief for the Times.

Women at war

Veteran journalists discuss dangers, difficulties of reporting from conflict zones

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DateJune 3, 2014June 3, 2019

Harvard's global presence continues to expand. In 2010, volunteers assisted in Haiti following the earthquake there (photo 1). In 2013, students and professors worked with scholars at the David Rockefeller Center's office in São Paulo, Brazil (photo 2). Researching India's Kumbh Mela and the “ephemeral city” was the focus across Harvard's Schools in early 2013 (photo 3).

Citizen of the world

Harvard increasingly engages across nations, issues, peoples

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DateSeptember 26, 2013May 23, 2019

Religion and conflict in Syria

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DateSeptember 10, 2013June 14, 2019

Gen. al-Sisi "has decided to call the Americans’ bluff," said Professor E. Roger Owen.

Egypt boils over

Owen explains how unrest rolled out, and where it may lead

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DateAugust 15, 2013

Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, is breaking new ground with a Harvard-led archaeological project in the war-torn nation of Iraq. He is focusing on a 3,200-square-kilometer region around Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, for signs of ancient cities and towns, canals, and roads.

Ancient Iraq revealed

Harvard illuminates ‘richest archaeological landscape in the Middle East’

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DateNovember 26, 2012

A senior fellow at the Middle East Initiative, Rami Khouri (left) is also editor-at-large of the Beruit-based Daily Star, where he writes often about regional events. Khouri admitted, “It’s difficult to come up with one analysis that captures the variety and depth of what’s going on” in the region, but he detailed a number of critical factors during a Harvard Kennedy School talk moderated by Steve Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs (right).

Middle East in motion

Region still percolating from effects of Arab Spring

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DateSeptember 20, 2012

HKS faculty, students reflect on Syria

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DateAugust 3, 2012June 26, 2019

Archaeologist Robert Mason spoke at the Semitic Museum about the discovery of mysterious rock formations near the Syrian monastery Deir Mar Musa (above), and the need for further exploration.

Desert mystery

Archaeologist hopes to resume investigation in Syria

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DateJune 22, 2012May 16, 2019

Tawakkol Karmen explains the success of the Arab Spring, and what's needed now to build and ensure democracy.

A Nobel cause in the Arab world

Yemeni activist calls on West to champion democracy’s spread

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DateJune 15, 2012June 18, 2019

“There’s a clubbiness about these dictators,” said Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, in discussing his book “The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life,” which was released this month. “They learned from each other, and they egged each other on, and now it’s going the other way. The anti-dictatorial forces have learned something” from them.

Power, personified

Owen explores the rise and fall of Arab ‘presidents for life’

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DateMay 18, 2012May 30, 2019

India's ambassador to the United States, Nirupama Rao, said India supports Iran’s right to develop peaceful nuclear power but opposes any clandestine move to develop nuclear weapons.

India to retain economic ties to Iran

Envoy Rao outlines policies toward Middle Eastern nations

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DateFebruary 21, 2012May 21, 2019

“It is very clear that what took place in some countries in the Arab world is an earthquake to the region,” Prince Alwaleed (center), whose 2005 gift created the Harvard Program, said in describing the Arab Spring. The panel discussion was moderated by R. Nicholas Burns of the Harvard Kennedy School (left) and also included Professor Ali Asani (right), director of Harvard’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

Fostering global understanding

Scholars ponder how to improve relations between Mideast and West

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DateFebruary 21, 2012March 6, 2019

“Certainly this is a moment in which the Arab world is extraordinarily interconnected. It may not be united politically. But what happens in one country matters enormously to what happens in another country,” said E. Roger Owen (right), the A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History and director of the Contemporary Arab Studies Program, during a Thursday discussion titled "Assessing Libya."

New hope for Libyan democracy

Rebellion was violent, but may have pulled embattled residents together

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DateSeptember 2, 2011March 21, 2019

Doctoral student Priya Moorjani (left) and Associate Professor of Genetics David Reich have used a new DNA analysis technique to track when and how much gene flow occurred from sub-Saharan Africa into populations in Europe and the Middle East.

Finding the genetic trail

New techniques let researchers track African connections to other populations

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DateJune 8, 2011

“I knew what the risk was, but I felt that my sexuality was so irrelevant compared to the privilege to serve,” said Lissa Young, a former Army officer who is now a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “It was a risk that I was willing to take every day.”

Do ask, do tell

HGSE student hopes policy reversal will allow her return to service

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DateMarch 24, 2011

A Feb. 3 Institute of Politics panel discussion on Egypt brought several Harvard experts to the Harvard Kennedy School. Moderated by Nicholas Burns (far left), the panel included Tarek Masoud, Malika Zeghal, Roger Owen, and Rami Khouri. The Kennedy School is currently providing a website forum for faculty and scholars to offer their insight as the situation unfolds.

Focus on Egypt

HKS offers faculty perspectives, research, programs, events

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DateFebruary 11, 2011May 3, 2019

As Egyptians continued to occupy Tahrir Square Thursday night (Feb. 3), several Harvard experts offered their views on the wave of pro-democratic demonstrations in an event at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics. Moderated by Nicholas Burns (far left), the panel included Tarek Masoud, Malika Zeghal, Roger Owen, and Rami Khouri.

An ‘extraordinary moment’

Harvard analysts assess prospects for Mideast democracy

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DateFebruary 4, 2011April 12, 2019

Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies receives $156,000 grant

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DateFebruary 4, 2011April 26, 2019

Book award named in Middle East scholar’s honor

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DateNovember 29, 2010March 21, 2019

Prince Turki Al Faisal told a Harvard Kennedy School audience that Saudi Arabia “hopes to present the world with a steady diplomatic hand backed by growing economic and financial might.”

A friend in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia can help the U.S. succeed in the region, says Prince Turki Al Faisal

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DateNovember 22, 2010March 29, 2019

Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi of Pakistan said, "We need trade, not just aid," in a Harvard Kennedy School talk that outlined steps to improve U.S.-Pakistan relations.

Tough love between U.S., Pakistan

Foreign minister offers plan for strengthening ties

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DateOctober 19, 2010May 31, 2019

“We’ve overengineered this war,” said Kit Parker, the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Applied Science, who served in Afghanistan in 2002-03 and in 2009.

Lessons from Afghanistan

After two tours, professor offers 'ground-truth' description of war

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DateNovember 30, 2009

Funds available for faculty conducting research on Kuwait and the Gulf

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DateOctober 22, 2009

Belfer Center Director Graham Allison (left) listens as retired diplomat Ryan C. Crocker tells the Harvard Kennedy School audience that when U.S. foreign policy falters it is often from a failure to understand geography and history.

‘Lessons from a Long War’

An ambassador recounts Middle East tours

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DateOctober 19, 2009

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