HKS seeks grant proposals on Kuwait
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now accepting applications for the spring 2010 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of...
View ArticleReclaiming their future
The status quo in the Middle East is “gloomy,” but doesn’t have to be. “We can do something about it,” Rima Khalaf told a Harvard crowd. Khalaf, a onetime United Nations official who was once deputy...
View ArticleA friend in the Middle East
The diplomatic challenges facing the United States in the Middle East are myriad: Iran’s nuclear program, a terror-fueled Yemen, a barely stable Iraq, and a war in factionalized Afghanistan compete...
View ArticleAfter the uprising
The uprising in Tunisia has drawn the world’s attention, including words of support from President Obama in his State of the Union address. However, two Harvard experts on the region say it is still...
View ArticleAn ‘extraordinary moment’
The unrest started in Tunisia, when one desperate man’s act of self-immolation in December spawned massive protests and the ouster of the country’s authoritarian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. It...
View ArticleFor Libya, ‘no compromise’ in sight
When the popular protests that have swept the Mideast reached Libya in mid-February, Ali Suleiman Aujali knew what he had to do. The longtime Libyan diplomat, who had served as ambassador to the...
View ArticleKuwait Foundation awards $8.1M gift
The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) has given $8.1 million to Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) to support the continuation of the Kuwait Program at HKS’s Middle East Initiative....
View ArticleMiddle East in motion
In an address Wednesday evening at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), journalist Rami Khouri presented an overview of the “bewildering and exhilarating changes” that have swept the Middle East since...
View ArticleVolatile Syria
Moderator Graham Allison went straight to the heart of the matter during an Institute of Politics forum on Syria at the Kennedy School (HKS) Wednesday, asking the four panelists for a yes or no vote...
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