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The RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP) brings together analytic excellence and regional expertise from
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Dalia Dassa Kaye directs the RAND Center
for Middle East Public Policy and is a senior
political scientist at RAND. She is the recipient
of many awards and fellowships, including a
Brookings Institution research fellowship and
The John W. Gardner Fellowship for Public
Service. Kaye is the author of Talking to the
Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle
East and South Asia; and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. She
has also coauthored numerous RAND studies, including Coping with a
Nuclearizing Iran; Israel and Iran: A Dangerous Rivalry; and Artists and
the Arab Uprisings.
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