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Symposium on “Challenges Facing the Next President in the Greater Middle East”

Held November 12, 2008, Kellogg Auditorium

Click on the following link to read a complete summary of the Symposium: http://www.ispu.org/reports/articledetailpb-72.html

Opening Remarks:

J. Ian Gray, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, MSU

Confirmed participants:

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (overview)
 
Daniel Levy, Director, Prospects for Peace Initiative and Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation, Washington, DC (Israel-Palestine)
 
Ali Ansari, Professor of Modern History, St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK (Iran)

Christine Fair, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA (Pakistan/Afghanistan)
 
Joseph Kechichian, CEO of the consulting partnership Kechichian & Associates, which provides analysis on the Persian Gulf region, Los Angeles, CA (Saudi Arabia and the Arab littoral of the Gulf)

Steven Negus, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow,  Washington, DC,  who served as the correspondent in Iraq for The Economist and the Financial Times, 2004-08 (Iraq)

Geneive Abdo, Fellow, The Century Foundation, Washington, DC (Political Islam)

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