This Week’s Events
December 1st, 2008 by Sarah
Monday, December 1, 2008
10:00am NAF: Public Diplomacy 2.0
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
11:00am AEI: Iran’s Nuclear Timeline and the West’s Options
2:00pm CGD: Which Countries Will the Millennium Challenge Corporation Choose?
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
12:00pm LOC: Bedouin Community Challenges
12:30pm GWU: Understanding Pakistan’s Aid Crisis
3:00pm NAF: The U.S.-Israeli Relationship
Thursday, December 4, 2008
12:00pm MEI: The Future of the Peace Process: A Palestinian Perspective
4:00pm Wilson: Democracy and Freedom as Fundamental Human Rights
5:30pm CCAS: Film Screening: The Myth of the ‘Clash of Civilizations’
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November 24th, 2008 by Sarah
Monday, November 24, 2008
All Day: MESA Annual Conference
12:30pm GWU: From Nakhbah to Ghurbah: The Palestinian Diaspora and the Peace Process
2:00pm Georgetown: Jerusalem Women Speak
4:00pm Hudson: A Counterterrorism Legal Agenda for the New Administration
4:00pm Wilson: Charity in Islamic Societies
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
All Day: MESA Annual Conference
10:00am Brookings: U.S. Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century
12:00pm MEI: Libya: From Colony to Independence
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
All Day: MESA Annual Conference
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
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November 17th, 2008 by Sarah
Monday November 17, 2008
9:00am CAP: Advancing a New Strategy for Prosperity and Stability in Pakistan and the Region
3:00pm Wilson: Shaping the President’s Agenda for Success With Congress
5:30pm SAIS: “Prospects for a Torn Turkey: Turkey’s Future and Its Implications for Central Asia, the Caucasus and US Interests”
6:30pm CCAS: Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
All Day: WFPG: The Faces of Contemporary Islam: Theory, Practice, and Foreign Policy
12:00pm Rumi Forum: Future of Middle East with Obama Presidency: Hopes and Challenges
2:15pm NIAC: Can Obama Untangle the Iranian Challenge?
3:00pm Wilson: Bridging the Political Divide – Humanitarian Cooperation between Palestine Red Crescent Society and Magen David Adom in Israel
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
All Day CSIS: Homeland Defense and Homeland Security for the Next Administration
9:00am Hudson: Iran, Hezballah, and Hamas: Tehran’s War against the West by Proxy?
12:15pm UMD: The United States Interagency Process and the Failure of Institution Building in Iraq
12:30pm CCAS: Syria and Iran: An Enduring Alliance, 1979 to the Present
6:00pm CCAS: Reflections on US-Saudi Relations
Thursday, November 20, 2008
All Day CSIS: Homeland Defense and Homeland Security for the Next Administration
All Day MEI: 62nd Annual Conference “US Middle East Policy: Pathways to Renewal”
11:00am CGD: Conversation with Henrietta Fore
12:30pm CCAS: Informal Commerce and Development in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Tunisia
5:00pm SAIS: Disambiguating Democracy
Friday, November 21, 2008
All Day MEI: 62nd Annual Conference “US Middle East Policy: Pathways to Renewal”
12:00pm EPPC: Public Diplomacy in the Age of Obama: Getting the War of Ideas Right
12:00pm Wilson: Syria and Iran: A Strategic Alliance or Marriage of Convenience?
1:30pm Brookings: Smart Power for a New Era: American Education in the Middle East
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November 3rd, 2008 by Sarah
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
5:30pm AU: Partners for Peace: Jerusalem Women Speak
Thursday, November 6, 2008
1:00pm USIP: Securing Afghanistan: Challenges for the Next Administration
4:00pm Wilson: Building Freedom and Democracy Through Commerce
6:00pm GWU: America in Transition: Foreign Policy Advice for the New President
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August 25th, 2008 by Adam
Tuesday August 26, 2008
12:00 Middle East Institute: The Iranian Nuclear Challenge
Wednesday August 27, 2008
12:oo Hudson Institute: “NATO’s Counterterrorism Strategies: Quo Vadis?”
Thursday August 28, 2008
12:00 Middle East Institute: “The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation”
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August 18th, 2008 by Adam
Tuesday August 19, 2008
12:15 New America Foundation: Pakistan: Toward Democracy and Stability: A Conversation on Pakistan’s Turbulent Political Environment
Wednesday August 20, 2008
3:00 Center for Strategic & International Studies: Managing Pakistan’s Transition: A Discussion Session with Ambassador Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States
Thursday August 21, 2008
12:15 New America Foundation: Does Nation-Building Have a Future?
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August 11th, 2008 by Adam
Monday August 11, 2008
12:oo Center for American Progress: How to Redeploy from Iraq Quickly and Safely
12:00 Middle East Institute: Iraq’s Refugee and IDP Crisis: Human Toll and Implications: A Special MEI Viewpoints Launch
Tuesday August 12, 2008
12:15 New America Foundation: 400 Years of Foreign Policy from America and Its Roots
6:oo Busboys & Poets: Author Event, Raed Jarrar - The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family’s Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation
Thursday August 14, 2008
12:oo American Enterprise Institute: Back from Baghdad: Views from Veterans of the Iraq Mission
6:30 Busboys & Poets: Steel and Mettle: Snapshots of Palestinian Perseverance
Friday August 15, 2008
9:30 Wilson Center: Cities and Fundamentalisms
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August 4th, 2008 by Adam
Wednesday August 6, 2008
11:oo Brookings Institution: Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan: U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges This Fall and Beyond
3:30 Brookings Institution: The Implications of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Decision on the Justice and Development Party (AKP)
Thursday August 7, 2008
2:00 NDI/IRI: New Directions for Democracy Promotion: Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Administration in Pursuing Global Good Governance
7:00 Politics & Prose: Kenneth Pollack
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July 28th, 2008 by Adam
Tuesday July 29, 2008
12:00 Middle East Institute/Project on Middle East Democracy: Democratic Development in the Middle East and North Africa
2:00 United States Institute of Peace: Thwarting Afghanistan’s Insurgency: A Pragmatic Approach to Peace and Reconciliation
4:00 Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia: Update on the Situation in Lebanon
Wednesday July 30, 2008
10:00 United States Institute of Peace: Iraqi Minister of Interior, Jawad al-Bolani
12:00 Wilson Center: The US and the Middle East: Assessing the Bush Era Balance Sheet
Thursday July 31, 2008
9:00 Center for American Progress: Senator Kerry: A New Approach to Fighting Terrorism
10:30 House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade: Foreign Aid and the Fight Against Terrorism and Proliferation: Leveraging Foreign Aid to Achieve U.S. Policy Goals
2:00 Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Defining the Military’s Role Towards Foreign Policy
2:00 Senate Committee on Homeland Security: A Reliance on Smart Power - Reforming the Foreign Assistance Bureuacracy
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July 21st, 2008 by Adam
Tuesday July 22, 2008
10:00 Heritage: The Future of U.S.-Pakistan Military Ties: Weathering the Strains of Regional Terrorism
12:00 Hudson: After Bush: The Case for Continuity in Foreign Policy
12:00 Heritage: U.S. Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy: A New Organization Needed?
6:30 World Affairs Council: Author Series Event: After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy
Wednesday July 23, 2008
2:00 House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight: Possible Extension of the UN Mandate for Iraq: Options
4:00 Stimson Center: Transnational Trends: Middle Eastern and Asian Views Book Launch
Thursday July 24, 2008
11:15 AEI: The 2008 Iraq Debate: An Assessment from the Ground
2:00 Project on Middle East Democracy: Turkey’s Political Crisis: Implications for the Middle East
Friday July 25, 2008
10:00 USIP: The Future of the U.S. Military Presence in Iraq
And you can always check out POMED’s Events Calendar for a current listing of events in the Washington D.C. area related to democratic reform, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East.
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July 14th, 2008 by Adam
Monday July 14, 2008
10:00 USIP: Israel’s Airstrike on Syria’s Nuclear Reactor: Preventive War and the Nonproliferation Regime
Tuesday July 15, 2008
11:00 Freedom House: Fighting Internet Censorship
Wednesday July 16, 2008
10:00 American Enterprise Institute: The Frontline Country Team: A New Model for Building Security Partnerships
12:00 Middle East Institute: Can the Taliban Win in Pakistan?
Thursday July 17, 2008
2:00 Senate Appropriations Committee: FY09 State and Foreign Operations Markup
3:30 Heritage Foundation: Notions of Liberty in Islam
Friday July 18, 2008
9:00 Center for American Progress: Humanity as a Weapon of War
12:00 Hudson Institute: Egypt’s Coptic Christians: The Experience of the Middle East’s largest Christian community during a time of rising Islamization
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June 23rd, 2008 by Adam
Monday June 23, 2008
9:oo Wilson Center: NATO’s Evolving Role in Afghanistan
12:00 Middle East Institute: Israel-Palestine Peace Talks: Where are they Going? What are the Prospects?
2:oo Brookings: Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror
Tuesday June 24, 2008
9:30 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Freedom House: Petro-Authoritarianism and Europe’s New Divides
10:00 USIP: Foreign Policy and the Next U.S. Administration
12:00 Project on Middle East Democracy: What Women Want: Voices From the Middle East
12:00 Library of Congress: Publishing Trends in Iran
2:15 Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: Hearing: Business Meeting
Wednesday June 25, 2008
10:00 House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Foreign Assistance Reform: Rebuilding U.S. Civilian Development and Diplomatic Capacity in the 21st Century
Thursday June 26, 2008
12:00 Center for National Policy: Iran’s Nuclear Program: Reflections from Nuclear Tourists
Friday June 27, 2008
10:00 USIP: Mullahs, Money, and Militias: How Iran Exerts its Influence in the Middle East
12:00 Middle East Institute: The Future of Democracy in Lebanon
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June 16th, 2008 by Adam
Monday June 16, 2008
12:30 New America Foundation: Examining the Next Year on the Israeli-Palestinian Front
2:00 Brookings Institution: A New Millennium of Knowledge: Human Development in the Arab World
Tuesday June 17, 2008
12:00 CATO: Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America
Wednesday June 18, 2008
12:00 Middle East Institute: Developments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1:00 CSIS: Smart Power Speaker Series: America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions, Straight Answers
Thursday June 19, 2008
12:00 Wilson Center: Iran: The Impact of Electoral Trends on Iran’s Security Policies
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June 9th, 2008 by Adam
Monday June 9, 2008
1:00 RAND: Congressional Briefing: Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
3:00 CSIS: Qur’anic Guidance for Good Governance
Tuesday June 10, 2008
12:00 Center for National Policy: The Future of Stability Operations: Lessons Learned from Iraq
Thursday June 12, 2008
9:30 Hearing: Russia, Iran, and Nuclear Weapons: Implications of the Proposed U.S.-Russia Agreement
10:00 USIP: New Avenues for National Reconciliation in Iraq
12:00 Cato: America: Our Next Chapter
Friday June 13, 2008
12:30 Brookings: The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation
2:00 CSIS: Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq
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April 21st, 2008 by Amanda
Monday, April 21
All Day Event - Georgetown University: Annual Conference 2008: Maghreb Development, Strategic Resources and the Environment in a Globalized World
9:00 Georgetown University: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy: Assessing the Results
12:00 CAP: Iraq: Examining the Diplomatic and Political Tools to Achieve Progress and Stability
12:30 George Washington University: Institute for Middle East Studies Brownbag: The Absence of Muslim Women from Making Islamic Thoughts
12:30 Georgetown Intercultural Center: Oman’s Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
18:00 Georgetown University: Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next Administration with Amb R. Nicholas Burns 19:00 American University: The Role of the Law School in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
Tuesday, April 21
All Day Event: American University: The Role of the Law School in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
11:00 Book Discussion: “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq”
14:00 Wilson Center: Scuttle Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger and Arab-Israeli Peacemaking
18:00 Georgetown University: “Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next Administration” with Amb R. Nicholas Burns
16:00 Wilson Center: Imperfect Strangers: Americans and Arabs in the 1970
18:00 CCAS: Iran and the Arab World with Dr. Alidad Mafinezam
Wednesday, April 22
9:30 Hearing: Foreign Assistance Reform in the Next Administration: Challenges and Solutions
12:00 MEI Book Review: The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
13:00 SAIS: “Oman’s Economy: Challenges and Opportunities“
17:30 George Washington University: A Conversation with Senator Chuck Hagel
18:00 CCAS: Iran and the Arab World with Dr. Alidad Mafinezam
Thursday, April 24
9:00 Hearing: US Policy and the Road to Damascus: Who’s Converting Whom?
14:00 SAIS Book Launch: Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
15:45 University of Maryland: “Relativism and Human Rights“
17:30 George Washington University: “The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy“
18:30 World Affairs Council: Fixing Failed States
Friday, April 25
14:00 USIP: Kick-starting the Virtuous Cycle? Security, Development, and Governance in Afghanistan
19:00 Busboys and Poets: Gaza Calling: An evening of hip hop and poetry dedicated to the children of Gaza
And you can always check out POMED’s Event Calendar for a current listing of events in the Washington D.C. area related to democratic reform, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East.
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