Mailing address
124 Mt. Auburn Street Suite 100, Room 114
Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 53
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Noelle Janka
Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-4190
Fax: 617-496-9688
Email: noelle_janka@harvard.edu
Experience
Noelle Janka is the Program Coordinator for the Middle East Initiative of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Before joining the Middle East Initiative, Noelle was the Recruitment Director for Green Corps, a training program in grassroots environmental organizing. Noelle has worked on multiple political and environmental campaigns, including the campaign to elect President Barack Obama. In 2005, Noelle spent a summer working for American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) in Jerusalem and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She has also spent time in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Noelle graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2007 with a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development with a focus in International Leadership and Development. In her spare time, she maintains two garden plots and occasionally writes live music reviews for Performer Magazine.
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October 4, 2011
Diana Buttu on the Palestinian bid for statehood
News
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
In the days before and after Mahmoud Abbas' bid for Palestinian statehood in the United Nations on September 23, MEI fellow Diana Buttu was interviewed by multiple media outlets regarding her take on the bid.
September 22, 2011
Diana Buttu, "Statehood for Palestine?"
Media Feature
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
A discussion with Middle East Initiative Fellow Diana Buttu on the UN vote for Palestinian Statehood.
Listen to the discussion (mp3)
Marcus Halevi
September 20, 2011
Video: Inside the Arab Awakening
Event Report
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
September 19, Professor Nicholas Burns led a conversation in the John F. Kennedy Forum with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, UAE-based columnist; Rami George Khouri, Director, Issam Fares Institute, American University of Beirut; Dr. Karim Makdisi, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut; and Diana Buttu, Joint Fellow with the Middle East Initiative and Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program.
September 16, 2011
The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars
Media Feature
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
A recording of John Tirman's discussion of his new book The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars from September 15, 2011 at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Listen to the discussion (mp3)
Jay Connor, 2011
June 9, 2011
Middle East Mosaic 2011
Newsletter
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
The Middle East Initiative annual newsletter, Spring 2011 issue.
Charita Law, 2011
June 7, 2011
Middle East Uprisings: Options for the United States
Event Summary
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
On May 31, the Middle East Initiative and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace co-hosted a half-day conference about the forces shaping the Middle East and the options for the United States.
Noelle Janka, 2011
April 13, 2011
Isobel Coleman On Women, Islam, and Reform in the Middle East
Event Report
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
On April 5, Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy; Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, spoke at an event entitled Women, Islam, and Reform in the Middle East at the Harvard Kennedy School.
February 16, 2011
MEI Affiliate Marshall Ganz in The Nation
Magazine or Newspaper Article
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
This article in The Nation highlights HKS Professor Marshall Ganz and the Middle East Initiative.
February 8, 2011
Video: A Panel Talk Assessing Tunisia, January 26, 2011
Media Feature
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
Video of a panel discussion on recent events in Tunisia with Harvard Professors Malika Zeghal and William Granara. Recorded January 26, 2011.
January 24, 2011
Executive Education program in Jordan hosts senior executives from across the Arab region
Event Report
By Noelle Janka, Program Coordinator, Middle East Initiative
Fifty-one participants from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Iraq, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan convened at the Dead Sea last week for a five-day Executive Education program entitled "Leading for the Future: The Arab Region in a Changing World."
