MEdiNA, the Harvard GSD's MENA student group, presents

Scales of Syria, a symposium on the Syrian crisis at the Harvard Graduate School of Design... Read more about Scales of Syria (symposium)

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Wesam Al Madhoun
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza; Visiting Scholar, MIT; MIT-Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program... Read more about Environmental Challenges and Socio-Economic Conditions in Gaza: A Livable Place?

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Karyn Thomas
Founder and Co-Director of Small Projects Istanbul... Read more about The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Rebuilding Lives through Sustainable Grassroots Initiatives

The CMES Middle East Seminar and the Middle East Initiative (HKS) present

Pierre Krähenbühl
Commissioner General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)... Read more about Middle East Quagmire: What Hope for Palestine Refugees?

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Bill Corcoran
President and CEO, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)... Read more about Current Challenges of Development Assistance in Palestine: The Politicization of Aid to Gaza and the West Bank

The Middle East Seminar presents

Michael Wahid Hanna, J.D.
Senior Fellow, Century Foundation; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law... Read more about The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict

The Middle East Forum presents

Akihiro Seita
Director, Department of Health, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)... Read more about Critical Issues Affecting the Health of Palestine Refugees: An Informal Discussion with Dr. Akihiro Seita

The Middle East Seminar presents

Jennifer Leaning
Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; and FXB Professor of Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health... Read more about People at the Gates of Sovereignty: Have We Reached a Turning Point?

The Middle East Seminar and The Middle East Forum presents

Ammar Kourany, Safety and Liaison Manager, Save the Children, Syria; and,
Abdulkarim Ekzayez, Health Program Manager, Save the Children, Syria... Read more about The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field

The Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative presents a seminar with

Walid Ammar, MD, PhD
Director General, Ministry of Public Health of Lebanon; Professor, the Lebanese University; Senior Lecturer, American University of Beirut

Moderated by Melani Cammett, Professor of Government, Harvard University.

The Lebanese experience, notably with the recent challenging Syrian crisis, defies certain well-established concepts in the discipline of public health. The speaker contests the globalization of the corresponding...