Visitor from the Arava Institute

CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | Come meet Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed for lunch on May 8 at 12:00 pm. Bring your lunch to Commons 256.

Dr. Abu Hamed is the Executive Director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. A Palestinian, he has just been named “one of 48 Israelis who are uniquely shaping Israel, today and into the future” by Israel 21c. Dr. Abu Hamed holds a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Gazi University (Turkey), and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ankara University (Turkey). He has completed two terms of postdoctoral research, one at the Environmental Science and Energy Research Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), and the second at the University of Minnesota’s Mechanical Engineering Department Solar Energy Lab. He also holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Hebrew University. He lives in East Jerusalem with his wife and five children.