Tarek Masoud is the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[1][2]
Biography
Masoud was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Egyptian immigrants and was raised in Saudi Arabia.[3] Masoud attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors at Brown University in political science in 1997.[4] He then went on to Yale University, where he earned a Master of Arts, a Master of Philosophy and a PhD, all in political science.[3][4]
He is the faculty director of the Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative, and the convener of Harvard's Middle East Dialogues, which consist of interviews with such figures as Jared Kushner; former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad; former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki Al-Faisal; and Micah Goodman, author of Catch 67: The Left, The Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War.
Works
- Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt (2014)
- The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform with Jason Brownlee and Andrew Reynolds (2015)
- Democracy in Hard Places edited with Scott Mainwaring (2023)
References
- "Tarek Masoud". Harvard Kennedy School. 2020-07-24. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
- "Tarek Masoud – Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program". Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program – At Yale University. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
- "Tarek Masoud". Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Retrieved 2026-04-22.
- Admin-ERF (2015-12-16). "Tarek Masoud". Economic Research Forum (ERF). Retrieved 2026-04-22.