Category Archives: Policymakers Conference

Afshin Molavi, Iran, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference

Geopolitical Dynamics: Iran – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

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GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS (V): Iran

Chair:

Dr. John L. Iskander – Chair, Near East and North Africa Area Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State.

Speakers:

Mr. Afshin Molavi – Senior Fellow, New America Foundation; Senior Middle East Advisor, Oxford Analytica; and author, The Soul of Iran.

Dr. Janne Nolan – Director, Nuclear Security Programs, American Security Project; former Professor of International Affairs and Deputy Director of the Ridgway Center, University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Flynt Leverett – Director, Iran Initiative, and Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation; and author, Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options toward Iran and Inheriting Syria: Bashar’s Trial by Fire.

Dr. Kenneth B. Katzman – Specialist in Middle East Affairs in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

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Mideast Peace Process, NCUSAR Program, Palestine, Podcast, Policymakers Conference

Geopolitical Dynamics: Palestine – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

GEOPOLITICAL 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.

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HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference, Saudi Arabia, US-Arab Relations, Video

Keynote Address: HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY HRH PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL

HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al Sa’ud – Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and to the United States of America; former Director General, General Intelligence Directorate, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Bahrain, GCC, Jeremy Jones, Kuwait, NCUSAR Program, Oman, Podcast, Policymakers Conference, Saudi Arabia, UAE

Gulf Cooperation Council Dynamics – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

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GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC) DYNAMICS (III)

Chair:

Dr. John Duke Anthony – Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum and Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia.

Speakers:

Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla – Professor of Political Science, Emirates University (Abu Dhabi); lead author, 2008 Arab Knowledge Report. (UAE)

Dr. Abdulla Al-Shayji – Chairman, Department of Political Science, Kuwait University, and author, Kuwait’s Ceaseless Quest for Survival in a Hostile Environment. (Kuwait)

Mr. Jeremy Jones – Author of Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East and the forthcoming Oman, Culture and Diplomacy; Senior Associate Member, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Distinguished International Fellow. (Oman)

Dr. Thomas Mattair – Executive Director, Middle East Policy Council; former Research Scholar, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research; author,The Three Occupied UAE Islands: The Tunbs and Abu Musa and Global Security Watch — Iran: A Reference Handbook. (Bahrain)

Commentator:

Mr. Robert Lacey – Historian, and author of, inter alia, The Kingdom: Arabia & the House of Sa’ud (1982) and Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (2009). (Saudi Arabia)

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NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference, Trade and Investment

Business, Investment, and Financial Development Dynamics and Prospects – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

BUSINESS, INVESTMENT, AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS AND PROSPECTS

Chair:

Mr. Michael Markland – Vice President for Private Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley (Dubai).

Speakers:

Ambassador Ford Fraker – Senior Adviser and Chairman for the Middle East and North Africa Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.; former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Ambassador Joseph LeBaron – Senior Adviser, Patton Boggs LLP; former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar and Mauritania.

Mr. Danny E. Sebright – President, U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council.

Mr. Lionel C. Johnson – Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Egypt, Libya, Morocco, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen

Geopolitical Dynamics: Arab North Africa (The Maghreb) / Syria / Yemen – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

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GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS (II): Arab North Africa (The Maghreb) / Syria / Yemen

Chair:

Ms. Jennifer Salan – Senior Producer, The Stream, Al Jazeera English.

Speakers:       

Dr. Néjib Ayachi – Founder and President, Maghreb Center. (Tunisia)

Dr. Michele Dunne – Director, Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East; former Member, White House National Security Council Staff and the Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff, as well as Bureau of Intelligence and Research; and service as a Diplomat in Cairo and Jerusalem. (Egypt)

Mr. Christopher Blanchard – Middle East Policy Analyst, Congressional Research Service. (Syria / Yemen)

Ms. Randa Fahmy Hudome – President, Fahmy Hudome International; former Associate Deputy Secretary of Energy; Member, Board of Directors, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. (Libya)

Dr. Esam Omeish

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Iraq, NCUSAR Program, Paul Sullivan, Podcast, Policymakers Conference

Geopolitical Dynamics: Iraq – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS (I): Iraq

Chair:

Dr. Kenneth B. Katzman – Specialist in Middle East Affairs in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

Speakers:

Dr. Eric Davis – Professor of Political Science and former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University; author of Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq and the forthcoming Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq.

Dr. Juan Cole – Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan; author of Engaging the Muslim World and Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East; former President, Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Dr. Paul Sullivan – Professor of Economics, Industrial College of Armed Forces, National Defense University; Adjunct Professor of Security Studies and Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University.

Ms. Shameem Rassam – Media Expert and Analyst, Alhurra Television-Iraq.

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GCC, HE Adnan Ahmed Al-Ansari, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference

Keynote Address: Ambassador Dr. Adnan Ahmed Al-Ansari – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Speakers:

H.E. Dr. Adnan Ahmed Al-Ansari – Ambassador and Observer, Permanent Mission of the Gulf Cooperation Council to the United Nations; former Director, Research Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sultanate of Oman.

H.E. Nasser Tammimi – Political Counselor to the Ambassador and Observer, Permanent Mission of the Gulf Cooperation Council to the United Nations; formerly, Senior Political Adviser to the Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, Secretariat General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Egypt, HE Sameh Shoukry, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference

Keynote Address: Ambassador Sameh Shoukry – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Introduction:

Dr. John Duke Anthony – Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum and Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia.

Speaker:

H.E. Ambassador Sameh Shoukry – Ambassador of Egypt to the United States.

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Energy, Molly Williamson, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference

Energy Dynamics – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

ENERGY DYNAMICS

Chair:

The Honorable Molly Williamson – Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute; Immediate Past Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the Secretary of Energy (2005-2008); former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Middle East, South Asia, Oceania and Africa (1999-2004); former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (1993-1995).

Speakers:

Dr. Herman T. Franssen – Executive Director, Energy Intelligence Group; Senior Associate, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Mr. Jay Pryor – Vice President for Corporate Business Development, Chevron Corporation.

Ms. Randa Fahmy Hudome – President, Fahmy Hudome International; former Associate Deputy Secretary of Energy; Member, Board of Directors, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.

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Joseph Moynihan, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference, Security and Defense

Dynamics of Defense Cooperation – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

DYNAMICS OF DEFENSE COOPERATION

Chair:            

Ambassador James Larocco – Director, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University; former U.S. Ambassador to the State of Kuwait.

Speakers:

Dr. Joseph Moynihan – Chairman, Board of Directors, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; Vice President, Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems.

General Joseph Hoar (USMC, Ret.) – Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command with planning and operations responsibility for 27 countries in the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and the Horn of Africa; Chairman, J.P. Hoar & Associates, a consulting firm engaged in business development in the Middle East and Africa.

Commentators:

Col. David Des Roches (USA) – Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University; National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Malone Fellow in Arab and Islamic Studies.

Mr. Bob Sharp – Assistant Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University.

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Chas Freeman, NCUSAR Program, Podcast, Policymakers Conference, US-Arab Relations

The Mess in the Middle East – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

THE MESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. – Chairman of the Board, Projects International, Inc., a Washington, D.C.−based development firm specializing in international joint ventures, acquisitions, and other business operations for its American and foreign clients; former President, Middle East Policy Council; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1993-94), earning the Department of Defense’s highest public service awards for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China; former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola; and author of the newly published America’s Misadventures in the Middle East as well as The Diplomat’s Dictionary (Revised Edition) and Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy.

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NCUSAR Program, Policymakers Conference, Trade and Investment

Business and Financial Development – 2010 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference

BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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 theWashington Times; embedded war correspondent during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Kuwait in 1990-1991 and in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

SPEAKERS:

Ambassador Ford M. Fraker − Senior Adviser and Chairman for the Middle East and North Africa Group at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.

Dr. Hani K. Findakly – Investment Banker and Director of Clinton Group, Inc.; former Vice Chairman of the Clinton Group; Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and its task forces on “The Balkans 2010” and “Middle East Trade and Investments.”

Mr. Brad Bourland − Chief Economist at Jadwa Investment Company.

Dr. Lama Suleiman − First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI).

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HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal, NCUSAR Program, Policymakers Conference, Saudi Arabia, Video

Oct. 22 Luncheon Keynote Address: HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal – 2010 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference


OCTOBER 22 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

 


Oct. 22 Keynote Address – 2010 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
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Speaker: HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Sa’ud –Chairman, King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the Court of St. James and to the United States of America; former Director General, Intelligence Directorate General, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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