Rawabi City: Can commerce build peace and prosperity in conflict-torn Palestine?

  • 2013-09-29

The Fletcher School -

SPEAKER
Bashar Masri
Massar International, Rawabi City

LOCATION
Cabot 703 
The Fletcher School
160 Packard Ave
Medford

Building Palestine’s First Planned City, One Brick at Time. Moderated by Prof. Rusty Tunnard, featuring Fletcher Students Ayesha Patel, Ankit Kumar, Mio Yamada, and Brionne Dawson. Rawabi is the first planned city in the West Bank as well as the largest private sector project ever undertaken in Palestine. Called the “Marshall Plan for Palestine,” investment in Rawabi’s construction will ultimately exceed $1 billion USD. Come and hear Bashar Masri, the CEO along with the Fletcher consulting team who was tasked to help Masri build Rawabi as the new standard for the Palestinian middle class.

 

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