September 15, 2011
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
What Lies Ahead for America in Arabia and the Gulf?: Analyses and Prognoses from NCUSAR on Vimeo.
Participating specialists:
Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman and Founder, Gulf Research Center
Dr. Christian Koch, Director, Gulf Research Center Foundation
Dr. Mustafa Alani, Senior Advisor and Research Program Director, Gulf Research Center
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
September 14, 2011
International Law Institute, Washington, DC
Participants include:
Dr. Philip Giraldi, Executive Director, Council on the National Interest and former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain
Dr. Fouzi El-Asmar, Distinguished Palestinian Writer, Poet, Academic, and Journalist
Mr. Mark Perry, American author specializing in Military Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Analysis
Mr. Jeffrey Steinberg, Senior Editor, Journalist, and Lecturer on Middle East and International Security Affairs
Chair:
Professor Don Wallace, Jr., Chairman, International Law Institute and Chair, International Council for Middle East Studies
March 31, 2010
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington, DC
Featured Speaker:
John Hofmeister, Founder and Chief Executive, Citizens for Affordable Energy, and Former President, Shell Oil Company
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
VIDEOMarch 2, 2011
Miller & Chevalier, Washington, DC
What You Need to Know Now: The Arabian Dimension in Today’s Mideast Turmoil from NCUSAR on Vimeo.
Participants include:
Dr. Herman Franssen, President, International Energy Associates, and Senior Associate, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dr. David E. Long, Consultant on Middle East affairs and international terrorism, and author of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mr. Robert Lacey, Historian and author of The Kingdom and Inside the Kingdom
Mr. Peter A. Iseman, Historian and International Educator
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
Mideast turmoil not to destabilize region, US experts say – Arab News, March 3, 2011
July 28, 2009
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
In collaboration with the U.S.-Qatar Business Council and the Arab Bankers Association of North America.
Panelists:
Aamir Rehman, Managing Director at Fajr Capital Limited and author of Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States and Gulf Capital & Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players
Umar Moghul, Partner at Murtha Cullina LLP and co-chair of the firm’s Islamic Finance and Investments Group
Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and author of Islamic Finance in the Global Economy
Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Chief Shariah Officer at Shariah Capital
Frank Vogel, Professor Harvard Law School and author of The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution and Progress and Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia
Moderator:
Jean-François Seznec, Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
June 30, 2010
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
The Arab World and the Future of Global Energy Supply: Realities, Risks, and Prospects from NCUSAR on Vimeo.
Participating specialists include:
Mr. Guy Caruso, Senior Advisor, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Hon. Molly Williamson, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute; Immediate Past Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy
The Hon. Randa Fahmy-Hudome, President, Fahmy-Hudome International; Former Associate Deputy Secretary of Energy
Ms. Sarah Ladislaw, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
March 31, 2010
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington, DC
Featured Speaker:
HRH Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
John Duke Anthony – December 10, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
Yemen Headlined: Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities from NCUSAR on Vimeo.
Panelists:
Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Director, Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, Princeton University, and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
Dr. Christopher Boucek, Associate in the Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mr. Gregory Johnsen, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University; Co-Founder, Waq al-Waq: Islam and Insurgency in Yemen Blog; and former Fulbright and American Institute for Yemen Studies Fellow in Yemen
Ambassador James A. Larocco, Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, U.S. Department of Defense, and former U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait
Dr. Mustafa Alani, Senior Advisor and Research Program Director, Gulf Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; former Fulbright Fellow in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen; and one of two Americans to have served as an official observer for all four of Yemen’s presidential and parliamentary elections
February 17, 2009
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington, DC
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Chief Shariah Officer, Shariah Capital
Mr. Michael McMillen, Attorney, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
SLIDES FROM DR. YUSUF TALAL DELORENZO (.pdf)
SLIDES FROM MR. MICHAEL MCMILLEN (.pdf)
Background Information:
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE: “ISLAMIC FINANCE: OVERVIEW AND POLICY CONCERNS” (.pdf)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY: “OVERVIEW OF ISLAMIC FINANCE” (.pdf)
ERNST & YOUNG: “ISLAMIC FUNDS AND INVESTMENTS REPORT” (.pdf))
GULF ONE INVESTMENT BANK: “ISLAMIC FINANCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES”
December 16, 2008
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington, DC
Featured Speaker:
H.E. Samir Shakir M. Sumaida’ie
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
December 2, 2008
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington, DC
Featured Speaker:
HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Sa’ud
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
