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.

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A Conversation with Mohammed Alyahya, Editor-in-Chief of Al Arabiya English

Apr 27 2021 98 mins

Mohammed Alyahya, Editor-in-Chief of Al Arabiya English.

A Conversation with Raghida Dergham, Journalist and Executive Chairman of the Beirut Institute, Lebanon

Apr 27 2021 92 mins

Raghida Dergham, award-winning journalist and Founder and Executive Chairman of the Beirut Institute.

A Conversation with Mina al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief of The National

Mar 22 2021 80 mins

This episode of Middle East Matters is the fifth installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.”

A Conversation with Ayad Allawi, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq

Mar 22 2021 82 mins

This episode of Middle East Matters is the fourth installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.”

A Conversation with Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Award-Winning Reporter, Kuwait

Mar 22 2021 98 mins

This episode of Middle East Matters is the third installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.”

A Conversation with Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Political Scientist and Public Intellectual, UAE

Mar 22 2021 94 mins

This episode of Middle East Matters is the second installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World."

A Conversation with Nabil Fahmy, former Foreign Minister of Egypt

Mar 22 2021 86 mins

This episode of Middle East Matters is the first installment of a series titled, “USA 2020: The View from the Arab World.”

“Whither Saudi Arabia?” with guest Bernard Haykel, Princeton University.

Mar 11 2021 92 mins

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 conspicuou

A Conversation with Mina Al-Oraibi

Dec 08 2020 57 mins

MEI Faculty Director Tarek Masoud and MEI Visiting Fellow Karim Haggag in conversation with journalist Mina Al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief of" The National."