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For cultural and political conflicts, a humanizing imperative
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Nasir Almasri heard so many discussions about the political struggles of Palestinians that by the time he was 7, he thought he’d heard enough to last a lifetime. [...]
Can digital technology help create a more gender-equal society?
Ninety percent of countries have at least one legal barrier to women owning property, receiving an inheritance, or opening a bank account. Only six countries in the world give women equal work rights as men. And at [...]
Twenty years of cultivating tech entrepreneurs
In 2010, Clarisse Iribagiza was studying computer engineering at the University of Rwanda’s College of Science and Technology. She was intrigued to hear about a program on the fundamentals of technological entrepreneurship offered by the [...]
Fikile Brushett is looking for new ways to store energy
Fikile Brushett, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, had an unusual source of inspiration for his career in the chemical sciences: the character played by Nicolas Cage in the 1996 movie “The Rock.” In [...]
Events
Starr Forum: Where Powers Live – January 16, 2020
MIT Center for International Studies and MIT-Africa present the short film, "Where Powers Live," followed by a discussion and Q&A with filmmaker Shola Lawal. Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Building E40, 496 Pye Conference [...]
MIT-Africa Forum: September 26, 2019
David Auerbach (MBA ‘11, Legatum Fellow 2011-2012) is a co-founder of Sanergy, which provides sanitation solutions that serve all urban residents, converting waste into valuable end-products. (Sept. 26, 12-1pm, E40-163 (The Martin Trust Center’s “The Garage”) [...]
MIT Africa Innovate Conference
The MIT Africa Innovate Conference, sponsored by the MIT Sloan Africa Business Club, will be held on April 14, 2019 at the Samberg Conference Center. This year’s conference theme is “Made in Africa." Through a [...]
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