NCUSAR’s 2012 Annual Review — Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog

In the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ 2012 Annual Review one will find a reporting and chronicling of the Council’s most relevant news and views of the past year; coverage of all of the Council’s numerous educational programs, activities, and events made possible by its generous contributors and supporters; a listing of the Council’s leadership, management, and staff; a listing of the Council’s contributors; and a statement of the Council’s vision and mission.

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To this end, one will find in the 2012 Annual Review that follows detailed reporting and illustrative material pertaining to the Council’s:

Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference, regarding which the most recent one that was held October 25-26, 2012 drew 1,250 participants and in addition to the proceedings featured receptions hosted by the Embassies of Bahrain and Jordan as well as a luncheon by the U.S.-UAE Business Council, coverage by six dozen broadcast and print media and the live filming and simultaneous broadcasting by C-SPAN, allowing the Conference’s sessions to be viewed by millions worldwide;
15 Model Arab League Programs throughout the United States and three in other countries in which over 2,200 American and other countries’ university and secondary school youth participated in an Arab-U.S. relations leadership development exercise the likes of which one will not find elsewhere;
16th Annual Oman Cultural Immersion Program for armed forces officers selected by the Commander of the U.S. Central Command;
Annual Year-Round University Student Internship Program in addition to, for the fourth year in succession, Summer University Student Internship Program in cooperation with the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in the heart of the nation’s capital, for which there was the highest number of applications to date, the placement of interns at 18 sister foreign affairs organizations where they obtained fulltime professional work experience, and the administration of a parallel academic seminar on “Arabia and the Gulf” chaired by the Council’s President and CEO;
Continued facilitation of applications and the selection process for American and other students enrolled in Arabic language and cross-cultural study programs in Lebanon, Morocco, and Jordan;
Founding President and CEO Dr. John Duke Anthony’s service during the Fall Semester as Dean’s Visiting Chair in International Studies and Political Science at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, where he taught the Institute’s first-ever course on “Politics of the Arabian Peninsula”;
Five U.S.-Arab Relations- and U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council-centric public affairs educational events on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the nation’s capital for Members of Congress, Congressional staff, the international diplomatic corps, the media, and representatives of public policy interest groups;
Ongoing annual cooperation with the Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), inclusive of the Center’s hosting for the third year in succession of Council-organized and escorted delegations comprised of representatives of America’s strategic armed services officers of tomorrow from the United States Military Academy, Naval Academy, and Air Force Academy;
Continued annual cooperation with the Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-, Geneva, Switzerland-, and Cambridge University-based Gulf Research Center’s Annual Gulf Research Meeting at Cambridge University;
Presentation of Distinguished Public Service Awards to three extraordinary individuals in recognition of their respective exemplary contributions to and unstinting efforts in support of the betterment of Arab-U.S.-Relations: H.E. Dr. Clovis Maksoud, former Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the United Nations and founder of the Center for the Study of the Global South at American University in Washington, D.C.; The Hon. Andrew Killgore, Founding President of the American Educational Trust and former American Ambassador to the State of Qatar; and Mr. Richard Curtiss, Founding Executive Director and Editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;
Utilization of information technology for launching a new weblog (“blog”) on Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC by Dr. Anthony; and
Receipt, for the third consecutive year, of coveted awards from international charity evaluators in recognition for overall transparency and professional effectiveness in the course of continued exemplary adherence to the highest possible standards of fiscal accountancy and management.