Oil in the Middle East
A discussion with honored guests…
ISIS and Saudi Arabia’s Predicted Oil Crisis
Maha Aziz – Huffington Post / Wikistrat / New York University – New York, New York
The Myth of Running Out of Oil in the Middle East
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
Israeli Arab Conflict
A discussion with honored guests…
The Phased Implementation of the Arab Peace Initiative Ambassadors William Morris and Mark Hambley – Next Century Foundation
Extremism
A discussion with honored guests…
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 Foreign Fighter Radicalization: It’s Not Just about God, Politics, or the Economy, Stupid Dorle Hellmuth – The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Islamists’ Introvert Legacies Najah Mahmi Sidi – Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez, Morocco and Nice-Sophia Antipolis University in Nice, France
ISIS
A discussion with honored guests…
The Caliphate’s Foreign Legion – What will happen to it? Mark Silinsky – United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania Some Misconceptions about the Caliphate in Islam
Wayel Azmeh – University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio
The Inevitability and Absoluteness of the Islamic State: One Belief – Different Concretizations
Abdelhak Jebbar – Sultan Moulay Slimane University -in Beni Mellal, Morocco.
Yemen
A discussion with honored guests…
Yemen: Some Misconceptions About an Unnecessary War Ambassador Mark Hambley – Next Century Foundation
Crisis in the Middle East
A discussion with honored guests…
Reflections on Hopes and Aspirations in the Middle East Lawrence Davidson – West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania
Culture
A discussion with honored guests…
New Strategies for Community Development and Democratic Participation among Arab-Americans
Sabith Khan – Founder of MENASA / Visiting Research at Georgetown University
Exploring Civic Leadership amoung Young Tunisians: Inviting Despair, Creating Hope
Sarah Kincaid – George Mason University – Fairfax, Virginia
International Relations
A discussion with honored guests…
UAE Foreign Policy and the ‘Influential Model’: Economy, Alliances and Soft Power in the Modern Middle East
Robert Mason – British University in Egypt in Cairo, Egypt
Democracy in Egypt
Egypt’s State-Society Dynamics and the Necessity for a New Social Contract
Mohamed Elgohari and Elissa Miller – Atlantic Council