Guest
Ahed Alhendi
An economist by training, Ahed Alhendi is a member of the Executive Committee of the Arab Council for Regional Integration. As a social entrepreneur in his native Syria, he organized artists to restore color and images of hope to public spaces in territories liberated from ISIS. He also devised a program for Syrian artists to use 3D modeling techniques to build prosthetics for their fellow citizens who had been wounded in the war. An active voice for Arab development and reform, he is a frequent guest on pan-Arab satellite channels, and his writing has appeared in leading American and Arab newspapers.