Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke to KSA2 (Saudi Arabian, English-language TV) on June 14, 2012 about the 31st anniversary and growing international importance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC is comprised of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Anthony is the only American to have been invited to each of the GCC’s Ministerial and Heads of State Summits since the GCC’s inception in 1981.
On March 27, 2012, National Council Founding President & CEO Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke at American University on “U.S.-Arab Relations.” The program was sponsored by American University’s Delta Phi Epsilon International Society of Business and Foreign Affairs and the Muslim Student Association. A podcast from Dr. Anthony’s presentation is available below as well as through iTunes.
World Affairs Council – Washington, DC intern Grace Jeong interviewed Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, at the 2011 Summer Institute on International Affairs for Educators.
Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke with KSA2, Saudi Arabian English-language TV, on the eve of Saudi Arabia National Day 2011.
National Council Founding President and CEO Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke to the World Affairs Council-Washington, DC Summer Institute on International Affairs on “The Arab Spring and the Dynamics of American Interests: Implications for U.S. Policies” on June 27, 2011. The World Affairs Council-Washington, DC’s 2011 Summer Institute was focused on “The New Middle East? Power Shifts and Global Implications.” Dr. Anthony was introduced by Ms. Heidi Shoup, Executive Director of the World Affairs Council-Washington, DC. Video and a podcast of Dr. Anthony’s presentation are available below as well as through iTunes.
John Duke Anthony – The GCC Summit in Perspective: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony (via ArabiaLink)
Dr. John Duke Anthony appeared on the Council for the National Interests’ (CNI) Jerusalem Calling radio show. He was joined by a CNI delegation, then in Damascus, headed by former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock and Executive Director of CNI Helena Cobban.
Dr. John Duke Anthony appeared in a roundtable discussion on This is America, a weekly public affairs television series hosted by Dennis Wholey. This is America is distributed throughout the United States, Canada, and the world via PBS stations, the AmericanLife TV Network, and Voice of America Television. The program featureed a round table discussion on the complex nature of the Arab world with HM Queen Noor, Amb. Wendy Chamberlin, President of the Middle East Institute, John Duke Anthony, President and CEO of the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations, George Washington University Islamic Scholar Dr. Sayyed Nasr, Hisham Melham of Al-Arabiya Television and Laila Al-Qatami the former communications dir. for the Arab Anti-Defamation League.


