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Juliette N. Kayyem ’91, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was appointed Undersecretary of Homeland Defense for Massachusetts by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 last Wednesday. Kayyem, who has a Lebanese-American father and Lebanese immigrant mother, is the only Arab-American to hold such a prominent position in any state’s homeland security department, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “I’m having mixed emotions right now. I was not planning this,” Kayyem said...
...reckless” decisions. Torture has been actively discussed in the U.S. ever since the Abu Ghraib case, when American military personnel tortured Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Roth said that two Harvard professors—Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor of Law, and Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer in Public Policy at the JFK School, have advocated the legalization of torture in the United States. Roth said that they might have the best intentions in mind, but that they overlook crucial problems in their proposal. Instead of focusing on torturing terrorists to make them talk...
According to Juliette N. Kayyem ’91—executive director for research at the Belfer Center—Prendergast will have the opportunity to interact with students and faculty. In addition to working on his own research, he will participate in classes and seminars...
...have someone here who has had such extensive experience is beneficial to us as scholars and to our students and to our fellows who will join the U.N. or international organizations,” Kayyem says...
...Kayyem says that Prendergast’s comments about the Iraqi war had no bearing on his appointment, citing the broad range of views among faculty members at the Belfer Center...