The Latest from Salam Kawakibi
Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within
The Middle East Institute is proud to host Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman, authors of the book Israel's Palestinians:The Conflict Within (Cambridge, 2011), for a discussion about their findings. One in five citizens of Israel are Palestinian. Often overlooked by outside observers, the challenges facing the Palestinian minority in Israel are an inseparable part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Resolving this conflict – a central concern of U.S. foreign policy and current international diplomacy – requires more than the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within
The Middle East Institute is proud to host Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman, authors of the book Israel's Palestinians:The Conflict Within (Cambridge, 2011), for a discussion about their findings. One in five citizens of Israel are Palestinian. Often overlooked by outside observers, the challenges facing the Palestinian minority in Israel are an inseparable part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Resolving this conflict – a central concern of U.S. foreign policy and current international diplomacy – requires more than the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Egypt's Turbulent Road to Democracy: Challenges for US Policy
*This article was first published by Freedom House on July 18, 2011.
How Long Can NATO Keep Going In Libya?
*This Commentary first appeared on neimanwatchdog.org on July 8, 2011
While political debate still roils over the legality of the American role in Libya, other questions have grown more pressing. Those questions include whether the European side of the NATO operation can be sustained and whether the Libyan opposition truly has the ability to achieve their goal of taking down the regime of Muammar Qaddhafi & Co.
These issues are critical for those favoring US participation in NATO operations as well as those opposed.
A Political Solution to the Afghan War
This article originally appeared in TheAtlantic.com and on Peacefare.net on July 7, 2011
My Father Died For Pakistan: An Examination of Religious Extremism in Pakistan
My Father Died for Pakistan, An Examination of Religious Extremism in Pakistan
The Middle East Institute is proud to host Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of Governor Salmaan Taseer, who was murdered this past January for speaking out against the misuse of Pakistan's blasphemy laws. The assassinations of Punjab Province Governor Salmaan Taseer and Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti have raised concerns about the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan. Shehrbano Taseer will discuss her father's work and legacy and offer her thoughts on the state of religious minorities and the spread of extremism in Pakistan.
Center for Turkish Studies' Second Annual Conference
Welcoming Remarks by Wendy Chamberlin
Speaker: Amb Wendy Chamberlin
Introduction by Dr. Gönül Tol
Speaker: Dr. Gönül Tol
Keynote Address by The Honorable Ambassador Alexander Vershbow
Speaker: Amb Alexander Vershbow
Keynote Address by H.E. Ambassador Namik Tan
Speaker: H.E. Ambassador Namik Tan
Rethinking Turkey-U.S. Relations in a New Era
Speakers: Dr. Stephen F. Szabo, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydin, Brian Katulis, Jay Solomon
Keynote Address by Ibrahim Kalin
Speaker: Ibrahim Kalin
After the Arab Spring: Toward Political & Economic Inclusion in the Arab World
The Middle East Institute and the UNDP are proud to host a discussion with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Robert D. Hormats, and Middle East Institute Scholar Amb. Edward Walker about how best to address political, economic and human development needs in the Arab world today.
After the Arab Spring: Toward Political & Economic Inclusion in the Arab World
The Middle East Institute and the UNDP are proud to host a discussion with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Robert D. Hormats, and Middle East Institute Scholar Amb. Edward Walker about how best to address political, economic and human development needs in the Arab world today.
After the Arab Spring: Toward Political & Economic Inclusion in the Arab World
Palestinian Authority-Hamas Unity Agreement: An overdue step towards peace or another stone in the road?
Dr. Matti Steinberg, Israel's premier expert on Islamist politics and Hamas, has spent his career as a public intellectual and analyst of Israel's relations with the modern Arab and Islamic world. He has taught at the Hebrew University and the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center. Dr. Steinberg has just completed a semester teaching a seminar to graduate students on Islamic Fundamentalism as a Gruss-Lipper lecturer and scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
New Hope for Turkey's Kurds
*This article originally appeared in Foreign Policy online on June 15, 2011
Egypt's Brothers Rise
*Co-written by James P. Farwell. This article originally appeared in the National Interest online on June 9, 2011
Informed observers are increasingly raising the fear that new elections will put the Muslim Brotherhood in control of Egypt’s parliament and the presidency. Of course it will try. Senior Brotherhood leader Sobhi Saleh, who helped write Egypt’s interim constitution, said in a recent video that he expects the new government to be Islamist.
