About: Safwan M. Masri

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Safwan M. Masri is a professor, senior academic administrator, global educator, and scholar of education in the Arab World. He is the current Dean of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and was head of Columbia Global Centers (2011-2022) as well as director of Columbia Global Center in Amman since its founding in 2009.

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  • Safwan M. Masri is a professor, senior academic administrator, global educator, and scholar of education in the Arab World. He is the current Dean of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and was head of Columbia Global Centers (2011-2022) as well as director of Columbia Global Center in Amman since its founding in 2009. As a scholar on education and contemporary geopolitics and society in the Arab world, Masri's work focuses on understanding the historic, postcolonial dynamics among religion, education, society, and politics. He is the author of Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly (Columbia University Press, 2017), which examines why Tunisia was the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring as a democracy. Masri's writings on education and current affairs have been featured in the Financial Times, Huffington Post, The Hill, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, and Times Higher Education. (en)
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  • Dr. Masri in 2015 (en)
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  • Executive Vice President of Columbia University (en)
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  • Safwan M. Masri is a professor, senior academic administrator, global educator, and scholar of education in the Arab World. He is the current Dean of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and was head of Columbia Global Centers (2011-2022) as well as director of Columbia Global Center in Amman since its founding in 2009. (en)
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