POLICY CHALLENGES PERTAINING TO REGIONAL GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS: THE PALESTINIAN FUTURE
Chair:
Ms. Alison Weir – President, Council for the National Interest; Executive Director, If Americans Knew.
Speakers:
Dr. Sara Roy – Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Board Member, American Near East Refugee Agency (ANERA) and the Center for American Jewish Studies, Baylor University; author,The Gaza Strip: Political Economy of De-development and Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector.
Dr. Tamara Sonn – Wm. R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Humanities, College of William and Mary; author, Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi’s Islamic Intellectual History, Religions through Law: Judaism and Islam, Islam: A Brief History, and The Religion Toolkit: A Complete Guide to Religious Studies.
Mr. Jeff Steinberg – Editor, Executive Intelligence Review.
Mr. Mark Perry – Author, Conceived in Liberty, The Last Days of the CIA, and Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage its Enemies.
VIDEOGEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS (IV): Palestine
Chair:
Mr. Yousef Munayyer - Executive Director, Palestine Center and the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development.
Speakers:
Ms. Michelle Steinberg - Counterintelligence Editor, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR).
Dr. Ghada Karmi - Co-Director, Centre of Palestine Studies, University of Exeter.
Dr. Norton Mezvinsky - Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Connecticut State University; President, International Council for Middle East Studies.
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
GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS (III):
The Palestinian Future – Impediments to Peace and Possibilities for Progress
CHAIR:
Mr. William Corcoran − President, ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid).
SPEAKERS:
Ms. Kathleen Christison − former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; Author,Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy; The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story; and, Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation.
Dr. Sara Roy − Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
Mr. Andrew Whitley − Director, UNRWA Representative Office, New York.
Ms. Barbara Lubin – Founder and Executive Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance.
COMMENTATORS:
H.E. Sameh Shoukry − Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States.
H.E. Maen Areikat − Representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States.
“GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS (II): ISRAEL AND PALESTINE”
Chair: Dr. Stephen Zunes − Professor of Politics and International Studies and Chair, Middle Eastern Studies Program, University of San Francisco; Senior Policy Analyst for the “Foreign Policy in Focus” project of the Institute for Policy Studies; Associate Editor, Peace Review; Chair, Academic Advisory Committee for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict; Alumnus, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Malone Fellows in Arab and Islamic Studies Program; and Host of the National Council’s West Coast Model Arab League.
Speakers:
H.E. Dr. Hussein Hassouna − Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the United States of America; Member, United Nations International Law Commission; former Assistant Foreign Minister of Egypt; former Ambassador of Egypt to Morocco and Yugoslavia; Member, Egyptian delegation involved in reaching the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
H.E. Maen Rashid Areikat − Ambassador and Head of Mission, Mission of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States; former Director-General, PLO Negotiations Affairs Department and PLO Negotiations Support Unit.
Dr. Thomas Neu − Executive Director, Friends of UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine; former Middle East Representative for ANERA in the Jerusalem office; formerly with the United States Peace Corps and Save the Children.
Mr. Robert Malley − Middle East and North Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group; former Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs; former Executive Assistant to Samuel R. Berger, National Security Advisor; former Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, National Security Council.
“GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS (II): ISRAEL AND PALESTINE”
Chair: Dr. Peter Gubser − Immediate Past President, American Near East Refugee Aid, Inc [ANERA]; Member, Board of Directors, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.
Speakers: Dr. Nadia Hijab − Senior Fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Palestine Studies. Author, Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work and co-author Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel. She was Editor-in-Chief of the London-based Middle East magazine before moving to New York in 1989 to join the United Nations. Since 1999, she has worked as an independent consultant for international organizations on human rights, human development, gender, and the media.
Mr. Daniel Levy − Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation.
Dr. Naseer Aruri − Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; author of numerous books and articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict; President of the Board, Trans-Arab Research Institute; Member, Executive Committee, Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine.
GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS (II): ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Chair:
Dr. Peter Gubser, Immediate Past President, American Near East Refugee Aid, Inc.
Speakers:
H.E. Afif Safieh, Ambassador of the Palestine Liberation Organization Mission to the United States
Mr. Daniel Levy, Senior Fellow, New American Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Mark Perry, Co-Chair, Conflicts Forum; and author, Four Stars: The Inside Story of the Forty-Year Battle Between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and America’s Civilian Leaders; Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA; A Fire In Zion: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process; Conceived In Liberty, Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders; and Twain and Grant
John Duke Anthony – Mode Rap: Commentary on Mideast Peace Prospects (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – Remarks to the Palestinian Center on Arab-U.S. Relations (.mp3)
John Duke Anthony – Mideastern Gyroscopes (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – Arriving Home: Thinking ‘Out of the Box’ on Palestine (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The Intifada, the U.S. and GCC Countries (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – U.S. Policy And The Intifada: Hurting U.S. Business Interests? (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – Peace Process (.pdf file)
