Tag: Palestine

  • Nation & World

    How might the election change the nation’s place on world stage?

    Analysts assess how a Biden presidency could reshape U.S. relations, impact the nation’s intelligence community, and prompt a nuclear recalibration by North Korea, Iran, and Russia.

    14 minutes
    Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Trump.
  • Nation & World

    Israel’s Grossman reflects

    The celebrated Israeli novelist David Grossman reflects on writing and warfare. The right has won the debate in his country, he says, but hope for peace remains.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Women as peacemakers

    Activists from across Africa and the Middle East drew from on-the-ground experience in a discussion of women’s role in peace efforts at John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A friend in the Middle East

    If American leaders want help disentangling — and possibly even solving — complex problems in the Middle East, they should look to Saudi Arabia for leadership, said Prince Turki Al Faisal, former ambassador to the United States, in a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics on Friday (Nov. 19).

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The way forward

    Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs, delivered messages of cooperation and inclusiveness while elaborating on his six principles for Turkey’s future at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Richardson Fellows focus on public service

    The Class of 2009 recipients of this year’s Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will be working on legal issues affecting immigrant guest workers, providing support for young people in a Palestinian refugee camp, and assisting residents of a New Orleans neighborhood to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tanner lecturer, peacemaker Nusseibeh in search of the improbable

    Prior to delivering the first of this year’s Tanner Lectures, political activist Sari Nusseibeh gave the audience a laugh — and a cheat sheet. “My normal attitude in lectures is to doze off when someone is reading them,” he quipped, “so if you do doze off I just want to tell you that my message…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Herbert C. Kelman receives IPRA Peace Award

    Herbert C. Kelman, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics emeritus and co-chair of the Middle East seminar at Harvard University, has received the 2008 Peace Award from the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). The award, honoring the founders of peace research, was announced this past July at IPRA’s global conference in Leuven, Belgium.

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  • Nation & World

    West Bank youths, with cameras, visit CGIS

    Four teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop made a stop at Harvard this past Wednesday evening (April 11) as part of their two-week tour of the United States. The teenagers, Palestinians from Balata Refugee Camp outside of Nablus, West Bank, visited the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), where they displayed their work…

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