Tarek Masoud

For Bangladeshi film director, see Tareque Masud.

Tarek Masoud is the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ^{[1] [2]} He is the faculty director of the Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative, and the convener of Harvard's Middle East Dialogues, which consist of interviews with such figures as Jared Kushner; former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad; former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki Al-Faisal; and Micah Goodman, author of Catch 67: The Left, The Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War.

Works

• Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt (2014)
• The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform with Jason Brownlee and Andrew Reynolds (2015)
• Democracy in Hard Places edited with Scott Mainwaring (2023)

References

1. "Tarek Masoud". Harvard Kennedy School. 2020-07-24. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
2. "Tarek Masoud – Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program". Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program – At Yale University. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2025-03-28.

External links

• Harvard Middle East Dialogues
• "Students are not the obstacle to open debate at Harvard" in Wall Street Journal
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Harvard Professor Answers Middle East Questions | Tech Support from Wired