The Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, & The Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University are pleased to present
Founder & International Director, Questscope
Curt Rhodes has spent over 30 years working with, and on behalf of, marginalized communities and young people across the Middle East. As the recipient of the 2014 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Dr. Rhodes was recognized by Tufts University for his demonstrated compassion and tenacity in creating a highly effective and determined organization dedicated to the survival and nurturing of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised. In recognition of his work through Questscope with marginalized youth in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and in the region, Dr. Rhodes was awarded 2011 Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Rhodes began his career in the Middle East in the early Eighties, as Assistant Dean in the School of Public Health at the American University of Beirut. During the 1982 invasion of (west) Beirut, he volunteered in a community-based clinic alongside students and friends, doing around-the-clock triage for wounded and ill civilians. That was when the seed idea for Questscope began to take shape. Living and working with people in great suffering compelled him to find a way that he and others in the Middle East could assist the most vulnerable: participating with the voiceless ones in invisible communities.
In 1988, Questscope was founded with the goal of putting the last, first. From the beginning, Questscope worked closely with local communities, identifying their aspirations and together addressing their greatest needs.
Contact: Liz Flanagan
Sponsor(s): The Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, The Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University