Schedule:  

5:30pm  Reception
6:00pm  Talk and Q&A

Where: 

Kirkland House Junior Common Room (JCR)
Harvard University
95 Dunster Street
Cambridge, MA 02138  (Click here for a map)

Contact: Ashraf Hegazy
             

Details:

Secretary Kayyem will be recognized by the Harvard Arab Alumni Association with the HAAA Achievement Award for her recent appointment to chair the MA Department of Homeland Security, her academic leadership in the fields of homeland security and terrorism, especially her particular focus on the intersection of democracy and counter-terrorism policies. Ms. Kayyem is highest-ranking Arab-American official in Homeland Security in the country.

Ms. Kayyem is a graduate of Harvard Law School and most recently served as the Executive Director for Research at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and as co-faculty chair of the Dubai Initiative, a program with the Dubai School of Government. . Previously, she had served in the Clinton administration where she worked on a variety of national security and terrorism cases, as well as civil liberties and death penalty appeals.

She is co-author of Preserving Liberty in an Age of Terror (MIT Press, 2005) and co-editor of First to Arrive: State and Local Responses to Terrorism (MIT Press, 2003), and serves as a national security analyst for NBC News.

Ms. Kayyem will be speaking on her career choices and on bringing an Arab-American perspective to Homeland Security challenges, and will participate in an extensive Q&A session.

The event will include a reception at 5:30pm, followed by the award presentation and talk at 6pm on Thursday, April 19th. It will take place on the Harvard campus, at the JCR of Kirkland House. The event is free and open to the public.
 
The event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Arab Alumni Association, the Society of Arab Students, and Conversations with Kirkland.