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What You Need to Know Now: The Arabian Dimension in Today’s Mideast Turmoil

March 2, 2011 NCUSAR 3 Comments

March 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

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Mideast turmoil not to destabilize region, US experts say – Arab News, March 3, 2011

Islamic Finance, NCUSAR Briefing, NCUSAR Program, Video

Islamic Finance Forum

July 28, 2010 NCUSAR

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

VIDEO

Energy, Molly Williamson, NCUSAR Briefing, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Video

The Arab World and the Future of Global Energy Supply: Realities, Risks, and Prospects

June 30, 2010 NCUSAR

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

AUDIO (.mp3)

HRH Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Jordan, NCUSAR Briefing, NCUSAR Program, US-Arab Relations, Video

A Conversation With HRH Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States

March 31, 2010 NCUSAR

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

VIDEO

THE WASHINGTON DIPLOMAT‘S RECAP

Bahrain, GCC, John Duke Anthony, Kuwait, NCUSAR Briefing, NCUSAR Program, Oman, Podcast, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Video

Report from the 2009 Gulf Cooperation Council Ministerial and Heads of State Summit in Kuwait: What Did and Did Not Happen and What Next?

December 22, 2009 NCUSAR 1 Comment

John Duke Anthony – Report from the Gulf Cooperation Council’s Ministerial and Heads of State Summit in Kuwait, December 2009: What Did and Did Not Happen and What Next?

VIDEO

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NCUSAR Briefing, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Video, Yemen

Yemen Headlined: Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities

December 10, 2009 NCUSAR 1 Comment

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

TRANSCRIPT (.pdf)

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PROJECT ON MIDDLE EAST DEMOCRACY RECAP

REMARKS REFERENCED BY AMB. JAMES LAROCCO

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