The National Council, in coordination with the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), organized and led an April 17-25, 2010 study visit to the United Arab Emirates for seven Cadets and one faculty member from the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York.
COUNCIL CHRONICLE RECAP (.pdf – page 3)
Afshin Molavi – Taking the road less traveled and reaping a lifetime of rewards
Afshin Molavi discusses his experiences at Arab News in the National Council’s Joe Alex Morris Jr. Journalism Internship Program.
John Duke Anthony – An institution that groomed interns
Josh Hilbrand, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations – An Arab diplomat for the weekend (via Common Ground News Service)
Read more about the National Council’s Model Arab League Program.
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
Council Chronicle – Vol. 3, No. 3 (Fall – Winter 2009) (.pdf file)
On January 27, 2010, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Founding President and CEO Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke to members and guests of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs (bcfausa.org) on “U.S.-Arab/Islamic Relations: Going Where?”
Video courtesy of the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs.
Council Chronicle – Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer – Fall 2009) (.pdf file)
December 10, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
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
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.
VIDEO
John Duke Anthony – 