As part of a pair of programs featuring open dialogue about issues related to the Middle East, Aslı Ü. Bâli participated in a conversation with Asim Ijaz Khwaja about modern Arab and Muslim identities in the context of university, local, and worldwide communities and events.
Released on March 6, 2025.
Episode Transcript
Guests
Aslı Ü. Bâli is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the president of the Middle East Studies Association.
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School, faculty director at the Harvard Center for International Development, and cochair of the Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Bias at Harvard University.
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Emerson Prond is a multimedia intern at HRI and a Harvard College student.
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