Tarek E. Zeidan
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- Tarek E. Zeidan (pronouns: he/him/his), is a sexual and bodily rights activist from Lebanon advocating for the rights and protections of LGBT communities in the MENA region as the executive director of Helem, the first LGBT rights organization in the Arab World. Tarek is an Ashoka Foundation global changemaker fellow, a Ford Foundation global fellow, and an ELI fellow at the Harvard Center for Public Leadership. He is a specialist in international human rights law and advocacy, adaptive leadership, public policy, and strategic communications and planning. Tarek has previously worked as the director of communications and director of strategic planning for the MENA region at both the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He obtained his BA from the American University of Beirut, his MA in security studies and international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and his MA in human rights advocacy and law from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He currently lives in Beirut.
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