Ezgi Canpolat is a visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She is a globally recognized anthropologist and innovation leader architecting climate solutions and AI for social good at scale. Ezgi has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, policy and research papers that influence both academic discourse and multilateral practice. She is the author of a forthcoming book, tentatively titled Governing Diversity: Syrian Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Belonging in the New Turkey. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas flow – is at a virtual standstill. Oil prices have climbed, briefly topping US$119 a barrel. The largest release of oil from countries’ strategic reserves in history … Read more
June 8, 2026
