Harvard Radcliffe Institute will host a pair of programs featuring open dialogue about issues related to the Middle East. In each, speakers will explore questions about modern Jewish and modern Arab/Muslim identity in the context of university, local, and worldwide communities and events.

On November 25, Aslı Ü. Bâli, a professor of law at Yale Law School and the president of the Middle East Studies Association, will be in conversation with Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development and director of the Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, and cochair of the Harvard University Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Bias. The program will explore questions about modern Arab and Muslim identities in the context of university, local, and worldwide communities and events.

Preceding this program, on November 13, Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin will join Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, to discuss Feldman’s new book, To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People.