On Thursday, February 2, the John F. Kennedy Jr. School of Government at Harvard University hosted the forum “Egypt: From Tahrir Square to Today,” which discussed Egypt’s progress from the beginning of the January 25 revolution until today. The Forum was co-sponsored by the Open Hands Initiative, as well as HKS Middle East Initiative, and […]
The Open Hands Initiative would like to introduce our new blog series, “Where Are They Now?” Over the next several weeks, we will update our readers on the lives and careers of our fellows from the “Covering a Revolution” Reporting Fellowship in Cairo, as well as the participants of our Youth Ability Summit in Syria. […]
The Open Hands Initiative is proud to announce our participation in an upcoming forum at Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership. This forum will discuss Egypt’s ongoing revolution, with a focus on Global Post and Open Hands Initiative’s exchange project that brought 7 American and 8 Egyptian top, young, journalists together for the “Covering a […]
The following portion of the transcript of remarks by the Chairman and Founder Jay Snyder were originally published on GlobalPost. CAIRO — Thank you, Charlie. On behalf of the Open Hands Initiative I’d like to welcome and thank you for joining us this evening. I am deeply humbled to be here in Cairo with such […]
This guest blog post is the last of a four-part series written by Open Hands partner and music producer, Brian Unger. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 or learn more about the 2010 Syrian Music Exchange. My last session for the day was Maias Alyamani and his quintet MAqam. The players are Maias […]