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Whither the Arab-US Relationship? – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

WHITHER THE ARAB-U.S. RELATIONSHIP IN THE PERIOD AHEAD? POLICY IMPLICATIONS FROM THE LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES

Chair:

Ms. Barbara G. B. Ferguson  – Washington Bureau Chief, Arab News; Co-Chair, International Correspondents Committee, The National Press Club, Washington, D.C.; author, “Country Reports” on Bahrain, Morocco, and Kazakhstan for the Washington Times; embedded war correspondent during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Kuwait in 1990-1991 and in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

Speaker:

H.E. Ambassador Dr. Hussein Hassouna – Chief Representative of the League of Arab States to the United States.

Commentators: 

Mr. Bill Corcoran – President, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA).

Mr. John Moran – Career Member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, United States Department of State; Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.

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Geo-Political Dynamics (II): Israel And Palestine – 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

“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.

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Arab-U.S. Relations: The Way Forward – Views from the Arab World – 2008 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

“ARAB-U.S. RELATIONS: The Way Forward – Views the Arab World”

H.E. Dr. Hussein Hassouna − Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the United States of America; former Assistant Foreign Minister of Egypt; former Ambassador of Egypt to Morocco and Yugoslavia; Member, United Nations International Law Commission.

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