Professor Richard Nielsen and David Dolev discuss new MENA/MIT regional program at the Center for International Studies
"MENA/MIT is really about connections: connecting MENA-related research, teaching and initiatives across MIT, and connecting researchers and practitioners. It's an academic unit, so one of our primary goals is to promote academic research, but we also aim to foster economic opportunity, stability, mutual understanding, and peace. These are lofty goals in light of the challenges in the region right now, but MIT is a place where we can tackle big challenges."
"Our very first effort has been to host a mini-course on the Israel-Hamas war, taught by Peter Krause PhD ’11 who is an affiliate of the Center’s Security Studies Program. Peter is an expert on the Zionist and Palestinian national movements and is a professor of political science at Boston College. He designed something really informative that has already reached over 500 MIT community members who attended via zoom, and we hope can reach thousands more now that we’ve just released the recordings of those sessions on the CIS YouTube channel. You can request to watch the course here.
Photo of Professor Richard Nielsen by Gretchen Ertl. Photo of David Dolev courtesy Center for International Studies.