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The MIT-MENA Program launches “MENA Futures” series featuring regional expertise across multiples sectors.

Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and former director of the Center’s Security Studies Program (SSP), is quoted: "[Hegseth appears to} have a preference for people who look like him. More importantly, a preference for people who think like him. It means that whatever he calls ‘woke’ is bad... Anybody who disagrees with his notion of how war is to be fought, which is with incredible and relatively unrestrained ferocity, they’re also suspect."

Olivia Honeycutt ’26 discusses her experiences researching language processing and brain function, and studying sociolinguistics, during MISTI programs in South Africa and Edinburgh, Scotland.

Eduardo Rivera, assistant director of MISTI Data Systems and managing director of MIT-Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay, received the award from the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).