Speakers Announced for Harvard Arab Alumni Association Conference

The Harvard Arab Alumni Association will host its eighth annual Arab World Conference this Thursday at La Résidence Hotel in Tunis.

The conference will explore the theme, “The Arab World: From Revolution to Transformation.”

The event will include five different panels: People & Pluralism: The (Im) Possibility of Politics after the Revolution; The Rule of Law and Legal Transformation; The New Arab Political Economy: Economics and Business Transformation; Transforming Arab Education; and Media & Transformation.

Fares Mabrouk, Co-Founder and Director of the Arab Policy Institute, and Ahmed El-Gaili, partner at the Middle East Offices of the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP, will be co-chairing the event.

Confirmed Speakers include:

Mustapha Ben Jafar, President, Tunisian Constituent Assembly

Dr. Jorge I. Dominguez, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University

Dr. Mo Ibrahim, Sudanese Businessman; Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Suheir Atassi, Co-Vice President, Syrian National Coalition

Hazem Beblawi, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Egypt

Hynd Bouhia, Economic Advisor, Prime Minister, Morocco; Former President, Moroccan Stock Exchange

Aziz Mebarek, Founding Partner, TunInvest

Maryam al-Khawaja, Acting Director, Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Laila Atshan, Mason Fellow and Alumnus, Harvard Kennedy School; Renowned Palestinian Psychologist

The conference will be held for Harvard alumni and non-Harvard affiliates. At 6 p.m., a special seminar for Tunisian high school students and graduates will be held to explain the Harvard admissions process.

For further details about the conference and the Harvard Arab Alumni Association, visit: http://www.harvardarabalumni.org/