Wednesday, February 12th, 12:00-1:15pm EST - Virtual and in person at The Fares Center, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA
American Foreign Policy in the Middle East:
From the Biden to Trump Administration
Please join the Fares Center for a lecture and Q&A on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From the Biden to Trump Administration with Shadi Hamid, columnist at The Washington Post. His forthcoming book The Case for American Power will be published in 2025 by Simon & Schuster.
Light lunch will be served.
RSVP here (serious RSVPs only, space is limited)
Bio:
Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. From 2023 to 2024, he was a member of the Post's editorial board. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
Hamid is the author of several books, including most recently The Problem of Democracy. His previous book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs. His forthcoming book The Case for American Power will be published in 2025 by Simon & Schuster.
In 2019, Hamid was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. He is also the co-founder of Wisdom of Crowds, a podcast, newsletter, and debate platform. Hamid received his B.S. and M.A. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and his Ph.D. in political science from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.