Middle East Matters
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingConversations 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.
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Episodes
A Conversation with Mohammed Alyahya, Editor-in-Chief of Al Arabiya English
April 27, 2021 15:28 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBThis 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. Mas...
A Conversation with Raghida Dergham, Journalist and Executive Chairman of the Beirut Institute, Lebanon
April 27, 2021 15:22 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBThis 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. Masou...
A Conversation with Mina al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief of The National
March 22, 2021 20:27 - 1 hour - 74 MBThroughout 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 lan...
A Conversation with Ayad Allawi, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq
March 22, 2021 20:25 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBThroughout 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 oc...
A Conversation with Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Award-Winning Reporter, Kuwait
March 22, 2021 20:23 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBThroughout 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 b...
A Conversation with Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Political Scientist and Public Intellectual, UAE
March 22, 2021 20:21 - 1 hour - 87 MBThroughout 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...
A Conversation with Nabil Fahmy, former Foreign Minister of Egypt
March 22, 2021 20:18 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBThroughout 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 A...
“Whither Saudi Arabia?” with guest Bernard Haykel, Princeton University.
March 11, 2021 20:09 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBA 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...
A Conversation with Mina Al-Oraibi
December 08, 2020 14:23 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBEpisode 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)