Masoud was born in
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to
Egyptian immigrants and was raised in
Saudi Arabia. Masoud attended
Phillips Exeter Academy for high school and earned his
Bachelor of Arts degree with honors at
Brown University in political science in 1997. He then went on to
Yale University, where he earned a
Master of Arts, a
Master of Philosophy and a
PhD, all in political science. He is the faculty director of the Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative, and the convener of Harvard's Middle East Dialogues, which consist of interviews with such figures as
Jared Kushner; former Palestinian Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad; former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince
Turki Al-Faisal; and Micah Goodman, author of
Catch 67: The Left, The Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War. ==Works==