MEI's 68th Annual Conference

Panels Announced for MEI's 68th Annual Conference 

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When:

Thursday, November 20
8:45am-5:15pm
Registration opens at 8:15am 

  

Where:

The Grand Hyatt

1000 H Street NW 

Washington, DC 20001

  

Register now for The Middle East Institute's 68th Annual Conference on Thursday, November 20 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Registration is free for this all-day event, which will feature expert panels examining key regional developments in 2015.  Additional panelists to be announced.Agenda

8:45AM - Introductory Remarks

Amb. Wendy Chamberlin 

President, The Middle East Institute   

 

9:00AM-10:30AM - A Middle East in Flux: Risks and Opportunities 

Juan Cole

Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Amb. Robert Ford

Senior Fellow, The Middle East Institute  

Paul Salem

Vice President for Policy and Research, The Middle East Institute

Randa Slim

Director for Track II Initiatives, The Middle East Institute

Daniel Serwer (Moderator)

Professor of Conflict Management and Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Scholar The Middle East Institute

  

10:45AM-12:15PM - Containing the Islamic State

Adel Altoraifi

Deputy General Manager, Al Arabiya

Cengiz Çandar

Senior Columnist, Radikal, Senior Columnist, Al Monitor

Hossein Mousavian

Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University

Brett McGurk 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq and Iran, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Kim Ghattas (Moderator)

Correspondent, BBC

  

2:00PM-3:30PM - Travails of Transition in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen

Larbi Sadiki

Associate Professor of International Relations and Democratization, Qatar University 

Charles Schmitz

Scholar, The Middle East Institute

Amr El Shobaki

Former Egyptian MP

Frederic Wehrey

Senior Associate, Middle East Program, the Carnegie Endowment

Paul Salem (Moderator) 

Vice President for Policy and Research, The Middle East Institute

  

3:45PM-5:15PM - After Gaza: Getting Back to the Peace Process

Shlomo Ben-Ami 

Vice President, The Toledo International Centre for Peace
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel

Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer

S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University 
Khalil Shikaki 

Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (Ramallah)
Senior Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University 
Lara Friedman (Moderator)
Director of Policy and Government Relations, Americans for Peace Now 

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