CROWN-BELFER MIDDLE EAST PROJECT

Brandeis University, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Crown-Belfer Middle East Project is co-sponsored by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. The series aims to assemble professors and experts from Boston area universities and encourage debate on issues in the Middle East and U.S. policy within the region.

Featured Crown-Belfer Seminar Speakers:

9/29/2010 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

10/5/2010 Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni

10/25/2010 Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah

11/2/2010 Marwan Muasher, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Jordan

11/19/2010 His Royal Highness Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, former Director General of Saudi Arabia's Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah (General Intelligence Directorate-GID) and a former ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United States.

2/3/2011 Diana Buttu, Fellow at the Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; Former legal advisor to Palestinian negotiators and Shai Feldman, Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University

2/8/2011 A discussion of the Iranian domestic scene led by Professor Abbas Milani of Stanford University and Nagmeh Sohrabi of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis.

2/16/2011 David Makovsky of the Washington Institute will be presenting his recently published report and maps and discussing the borders of the future Palestinian state.

3/7/2011 Yezid Sayigh will present on his upcoming publication on Gaza governance.

3/23/2011 Ambassador Hossein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiations team, will discuss his perspective on the U.S. conduct of nuclear negotiations with Iran.

5/2/2011 Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Amos Yadlin, former Director of IDF Military Intelligence, discusses Israel's reaction to the Arab Spring.

5/4/2011 Dr. Ahmad Samir Al-Taqi, member of the Syrian parliament from 1994-1998, will discuss current events in Syria.

9/6/2011 Dr. Abdel Monem Said Aly, former Chairman or Al-Ahram, Cairo. Will discuss recent developments and future prospects in Egypt.

9/21/2011 Adulaziz Sager, Chairman of the Gulf Research Center, will speak about perceptions of the Gulf states regarding the Iranian challenege and the "Arab Awakening."

10/17/2011 Zaid Rifai, Former Prime Minister of Jordan

11/10/2011 Nabil Fahmy, Ambassador at Large at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry

11/15/2011 Meir Dagan, former head of the Israeli Mossad, will speak about Israel's security challenges with special emphasis on Iran.

11/30/2011 Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah. Dr. Shikaki will discuss "Beyond the Quest for UN Recognition of Statehood: The Palestinian Domestic Scene."

2/23/2012 Colin Kahl, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, on War with Iran? Prospects and Consequences.

3/26/2012 Moncef Cheikh-Rouhou, Leading member of the Tunisian Progressive Democratic Party and a member of the constituent assembly, on the question: Is Tunisia the Model for the Arab World?

4/4/2012 Asher Susser and Ahmad Khalid discussed Professor Susser's new book: Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative (Brandeis University Press, 2012). Asher Susser is Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Tel Aviv University. Ahmad Khalidi is a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford, a former Palestinian negotiator.

4/19/2012 Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, on his most recent book The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East.

4/25/2012 Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister of Energy, on Building Democracy in Iraq.

5/7/2012 Robert S. Ford, U.S. Ambassador to Syria.

For more information, please contact crown_belfer_series@hks.harvard.edu

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