Banquet
Wednesday, November 3rd
Keynote Speaker - President
Bill Clinton
Honoree - His Excellency Issam M. Fares,
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon
Master of Ceremonies- Riz
Khan, Host of "The Riz Khan Show,"
Al Jazeera English
Thursday, November 4th
Keynote Speaker - Dr.
Saeb Erakat
Chief Negotiator for the PLO
Conference
Thursday, November 4th
Panel I: America's Middle East
Policy in the 2nd Half of the Obama Term
David Makovsky, Washington Institute on Near East Policy
Joost Hiltermann, International Crisis Group
Suzanne Maloney, Brookings Institution
Ambassador Edward Djerejian, Baker Institute
Moderator: Amb. Barbara Bodine, Princeton Univ.
Panel II: New Approaches to
Non-State Armed Actors
Mitchell Reiss, Washington College
David Kilcullen, Center for a New American Security
Robert Malley, International Crisis Group
Peter Neumann, King's College London
Moderator: Roger Hardy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Panel III: Shifting Regional
Dynamics: Turkey, Israel, Iran and the Arab States
Omer Taspinar, Brookings Institution
Alex Vatanka, Middle East Institute
Amb. Itamar Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University
Shibley Telhami, Univ. of Maryland
Moderator: Geneive Abdo, Century Foundation
Panel IV: Reevaluating US Policy
in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Brian Katulis, Center for American Progress
Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign Relations
Paul Pillar, Georgetown University
Hassan Abbas, Columbia University
Moderator: Caroline Wadhams, Center for American Progress
