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The Middle East Program was launched in February 1998 in light of increased U.S. engagement and the profound changes sweeping across many Middle Eastern states. In addition to spotlighting day-to-day issues, the Program continues to concentrate on long-term developments and their impact on political and social structure, economic development, and relations with the United States.
The Middle East Program's conferences and meetings assess the policy implications of long-term political, social, and economic developments in the region and individual states; the Middle East’s role in the international arena; American interests in the region; the threat of terrorism; and strategic threats to and from the regional states.
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News
Haleh Esfandiari Receives "Leader for Democracy" Award from POMED
The Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program Director, Haleh Esfandiari, was honored in recognition of her outstanding and inspirational work. She, along with Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a former Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center, were among the first three recipients of the "Leader for Democracy" award given by the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED).
Woodrow Wilson Center’s Visiting Arab Journalist Program: 2009
The Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is pleased to announce the 2009 competition for the Wilson Center’s Visiting Arab Journalist Program. One Arab, Middle Eastern or North African journalist will be selected each year. Successful applicants will spend 3 months in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center, in the heart of Washington, D.C., where they will carry out advanced, policy-oriented research and writing.
This program is made possible by generous financial support provided by Dr. David Ottaway, a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
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Iran: International Pressure
and an Economic Crisis
Thursday, December 11 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Speakers: Stuart Levey
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,
Department of the Treasury;
Robin Wright
Journalist and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center;
Jahangir Amuzegar
International Economic Consultant and Former IMF Executive
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Book Talk - Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World
Monday, December 08 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Speakers: Suzanne Maloney, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Saban Center for Middle East Policy; David Ignatius, Washington Post Columnist, Associate Editor and Novelist; Daniel Brumberg, Acting Director of USIP’s Muslim World Initiative and Co-Director, Georgetown University’s Democracy and Governance Program; and chaired by Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center
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Book Launch: The King’s Messenger:
Prince Bandar bin Sultan and
America’s Tangled Relationship with Saudi Arabia
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Speakers: David Ottaway, Author, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Investigative/Special Projects Reporter, The Washington Post; Jean-Francois Seznec, Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University; Robert Vitalis, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.
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Secularism in the Muslim Diaspora
Monday, October 27 2008, 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Speakers: Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Bassam Tibi, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Affairs, Göttingen University; Jean-Pierre Filiu, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Associate Professor, Political Science and Chair, Middle East Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, France; Philippa Strum, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Maajid Nawaz, Director, The Quilliam Foundation, London, England; Afshin Ellian, Professor of International Criminal Law, University of Leiden, Netherlands; and Cheryl Benard, Director, Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth, Center for Middle East Public Policy, RAND Corporation; Jonathan Laurence, Coeditor, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College; and Peter Mandaville, Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University.
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Iran in Latin America: Threat or Axis of Annoyance?
Thursday, July 10 2008, 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Farideh Farhi, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Hugo Alconada Mon, Washington Correspondent, Diario La Nación, Argentina
Félix Maradiaga, Senior Researcher, Institute of Strategic Studies and Public Policies (IEEPP), Nicaragua
Elodie Brun, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Institut d’ Études Politiques, Paris
César Montúfar, Professor, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
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Dubai: Lessons from a High-Growth Arab City
Thursday, April 03 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Yasar Jarrar, Strategic Advisor to the Executive President of the Dubai School of Government and a Research Fellow at the Dubai School of Government and Dubai Initiative
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Israel at 60 - Challenges on the Road to Tranquility
Wednesday, March 19 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Chair and Professor of Politics, University of Hull, The United Kingdom and currently a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow
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Russian-Iranian Relations in the Ahmadinejad Era
Friday, February 29 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Mark Katz, Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.
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Internship Opportunities
There are no current internship openings. Internship opportunities will be available for Summer and Fall 2009.
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Middle East Program
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: mep@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4252
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