Professor Hakawati
The world is full of stories worth understanding.
The Hakawati Institute brings scholarship, conversation, and lived experience together.
Welcome
Ideas worth exploring. Experiences worth remembering.
Read and listen to public scholarship, step into a thoughtfully guided experience, or work directly with Professor Hakawati. Choose one path; the depth is there when you want it.
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Explore
Essays, investigations, and field notes in one organized home. Audio is in development.
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Experiences
Go beyond the page: the Space Coast, live analysis, and privately curated learning in the field.
Explore →Remote · In person
Work With Me
Discover, Understand, Venture: coaching, teaching, seminars, and personal or group experiences.
Explore →New in public scholarship
General Education Is Being Rewritten
What is college for—and what changes when its civic purpose is narrowed? Read the essay, then browse the complete archive in one place.
Signature experience · Florida Space Coast
Go beyond the rocket launch.
From Kennedy's moonshot to today's commercial spaceflight, discover the history and science of the Space Coast in an expertly guided private engagement.
Private launch experiences from $5,000. Individual arrangements are quoted to fit each group.
Meet your guide
Professor. Scholar. Storyteller.
M. Ahad Hayaud-Din brings more than 25 years of teaching, scholarship, and institutional leadership into public conversation and practical guidance.
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