Middle East Dialogue 2016 Preliminary Program
Middle East Dialogue 2016:
New Hopes and Aspirations
Friday February 26, the historic Whittemore House
1526, New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington DC
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
8:00 am Registration with Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Opening Keynote - Auditorium
Moderator: Ambassador Mark Hambley, Next Century Foundation
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States
10:10 - 11:25 am: BREAKOUT SESSIONS I (4 rooms)
1. International Relations: Library
Session chair: Cheryl Walker, Policy Studies Organization
Atefeh Baghi, Doshisha University - Kyoto, Japan
Susmit Kumar, Kumar Consultancy
Yiyi Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Shanghai, China
2. Oil in the Middle East: 1870s Room
Session chair: John G. Ingersoll, ECOCORP
Maha Aziz, Huffington Post / Wikistrat / New York University - New York, New York
Robert Kuchinski, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Middle East Region) / Weatherford Oil
The Struggle for Political and Economic Development in a Petro-State: Making Strategic Budgetary Choices in Conflict-Ridden Iraq
James D. Savage, University of Virginia - Charlottesville, Virginia
3. Israeli-Arab Conflict 1: Harriman Room
Session chair: Andrew Jung, American University
Barry Shapiro, Allegheny College - Meadville, Pennsylvania
Josef Olmert, University of South Carolina - Columbia, South Carolina
Oded Adomi Leshem, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University - Fairfax, Virginia
4. Democracy: Blair Room
Session chair: William Morris, Next Century Foundation
Abir El Shaban, Washington State University - Pullman, Washington
Sahar Mohamed Khamis, University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland
11:35 - 12:50 pm: BREAKOUT SESSIONS II (4 rooms)
5. Israeli-Arab Conflict 2: Library
Session chair: Mohammed M. Aman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Phased Implementation of the Arab Peace Initiative
Ambassadors William Morris and Mark Hambley, Next Century Foundation
6. Iran 1: 1870s Room
Session chair: Ivan S. Sheehan, University of Baltimore
Shahram Ahmadi Nasab Emran, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University - St. Louis, Missouri
Arash Reisinezhad, Florida International University - Miami, Florida
7. Extremism: Harriman Room
Session chair: Paul Hayes, Director of Debate, George Washington University
Session opened by The Lafayette Debates (Sponsored by the Embassy of France to the United States). Featuring debate speakers, Bailey Fischer-Columbo & Joseph Nelson, George Washington University Debate & Literary Society
Dorle Hellmuth, The Catholic University of America - Washington, D.C.
Najah Mahmi Sidi, Mohamed Ben Abdellah University - Fez, Morocco and Nice-Sophia Antipolis University - Nice, France
1:00 - 2:20 pm: BREAKOUT SESSIONS III (4 rooms)
8. Gender 1: Library
Session chair: Cheryl Walker, Policy Studies Organization
Muddassir Quamar, Jawaharlal Nehru University - New Delhi, India
Seyedehbehnaz Hosseini, University of Vienna - Vienna Austria
Thomas Martin, Pennsylvania State University - State College, Pennsylvania
9. Iran 2: 1870s Room
Session chair: Franklin Hockenbrocht, Policy Studies Organization
Náder Alyani, LLAKES Centre, UCL IOE, University College of London - London, England
Maryam Afzalabadi, Sharif University of Technology and Al Zahra University - Tehran, Iran
Maryam Afzalabadi, Sharif University of Technology and Al Zahra University - Tehran, Iran
10. ISIS: Harriman Room
Session chair: Maha Aziz, Huffington Post, Wikistrat, New York University
Mark Silinsky, United States Army War College - Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Wayel Azmeh, University of Dayton - Dayton, Ohio
Abdelhak Jebbar, Sultan Moulay Slimane University - Beni Mellal, Morocco
11. Culture 1: Blair Room
Session chair: David Sollenberger, Catholic University
Sarah Kincaid, George Mason University - Fairfax, Virginia
Sabith Khan, Founder of MENASA / Visiting Research at Georgetown University
2:30 - 3:45 pm: BREAKOUT SESSIONS IV (4 rooms)
12. Yemen: Library
Session chair: Ambassador William Morris, Next Century Foundation
Ambassadors Mark Hambley, Next Century Foundation
13. Crisis in the Middle East: 1870s Room
Session chair: Mohammed M. Aman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sarah A. Tobin, Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island
Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University - West Chester, Pennsylvania
Radwan Ziadeh, Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies (SCPSS), Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS), Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)
14. Gender 2: Harriman Room
Session chair: Andrew Jung, American University
Adina Friedman, George Mason University - Fairfax, Virginia
Amel Mili, University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
15. Culture 2: Blair Room
Session chair: David Sollenberger, Catholic University
Eman Bukhari, Cultural Program Developer, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture - Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Caroline Boules, George Mason University - Fairfax, Virginia
3:55 - 5:10 pm: BREAKOUT SESSIONS V (3 rooms)
16. International Relations 2: Library
Session chair: Andrew Jung, American University
Bagher Fardanesh, R.H. Smith School of Businnes, University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland
Robert Mason, British University in Egypt - Cairo, Egypt
17. Democracy in Egypt: 1870s Room
Session chair: Franklin Hockenbrocht, Policy Studies Organization
Mohamed Elgohari and Elissa Miller, Atlantic Council