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Congressional & Public Affairs Briefings
The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations periodically sponsors public educational programs on Capitol Hill and around Washington, DC where an assemblage of domestic and internationally renowned specialists analyze, discuss, and debate issues of importance to the relationship between the U.S. and the Arab countries, the Middle East, and the Islamic world. These events examine how best to strengthen and expand mutual Arab-U.S. trust, confidence, and benefits while examining a range of complex issues, interests, and policies.
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January 24, 2012
Afternoon Tea and A Conversation With Mrs. Cherie Blair
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PICTURES
Featured Speaker: Mrs. Cherie Blair, Founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women; noted barrister and QC, specializing in human rights law; and wife of former British Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Tony Blair
Introduction by: H.E. Ambassador Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United States of America
Moderator: Ms. Randa Fahmy Hudome, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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September 15, 2011
What Lies Ahead for America in Arabia and the Gulf?:
Analyses and Prognoses
 VIDEO
 AUDIO (.mp3)
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PICTURES
Participating specialists:
Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, Chairman and Founder, Gulf Research Center
Dr. Christian Koch, Director, Gulf Research Center Foundation
Dr. Mustafa Alani, Senior Advisor and Research Program Director, Gulf Research Center
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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September 14, 2011
Dynamics of Palestine in the Coming
Arab & UN Seasons – Five Perspectives
AUDIO (.mp3)
FLYER (.pdf)
PICTURES
Participating specialists:
Dr. Philip Giraldi, Executive Director, Council on the National Interest and former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain
Dr. Fouzi El-Asmar, Distinguished Palestinian Writer, Poet, Academic, and Journalist
Mr. Mark Perry, American author specializing in Military Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Analysis
Mr. Jeffrey Steinberg, Senior Editor, Journalist, and Lecturer on Middle East and International Security Affairs
Chair:
Professor Don Wallace, Jr., Chairman, International Law Institute and Chair, International Council for Middle East Studies
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August 9, 2011 and August 11, 2011
Libya From the Front Lines
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Featured Speaker: Mr. Richard Ayton, recent Stabilization Advisor to the British Special Representative to Libya
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June 29, 2011
A Conversation with The Right Honourable Tony Blair
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PICTURES
Featured Speaker: The Right Honourable Tony Blair
Introduction by: H.E. Ambassador Adel A. Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States and Advisor at the Royal Court
Moderator: Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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May 26, 2011
Symposium on U.S.-Iran and U.S.-Libya Sanctions
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Featured Speaker: Mr. Larry Christensen,
Member, Miller & Chevalier
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May 13, 2011
A Conversation with John Hofmeister
C-SPAN VIDEO
FLYER
Featured Speaker: John Hofmeister,
Founder and Chief Executive, Citizens for Affordable Energy,
and Former President, Shell Oil Company
Moderator: Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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April 15, 2011
Luncheon in Honor of Ambassador Joseph LeBaron,
United States Ambassador to the State of Qatar
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PICTURES
Featured Speaker: Ambassador Joseph LeBaron, United States Ambassador to the State of Qatar
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April 8, 2011
A Conversation with a Delegation Representing
the Majlis Ash-Shura (Consultative Council)
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
FLYER
Delegation Members:
H.E. Osama Bin Mohammed Al-Kurdi, Member of the Council
H.E. Dr. Abdallah Bin Yahya Bukhari, Member of the Council
H.E. Khalifa Bin Ahmed Rashid Al-Dosari, Member of the Council
H.E. Mohammed Bin Abdallah Al-Quaihis, Member of the Council
H.E. Dr. Saud H. R. Al-Subaie, Member of the Council
H.E. Dr. Mazen Bin Foad Bin Mahmood AlKhayyat, Member of the Council
H.E. Dr. Mai bint Abdulaziz bin Ibrahim AlEssa, Advisor to the Council
H.E. Dr. Mahasen Hasan Abu-Mansour Flamban, Advisor to the Council
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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March 2, 2011
What You Need to Know Now:
The Arabian Dimension in Today's Mideast Turmoil
VIDEO
AUDIO (.mp3)
FLYER
PICTURES
Participating specialists:
Dr. Herman Franssen,
President, International Energy Associates,
and Senior Associate, Energy and National Security Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dr. David E. Long,
Consultant on Middle East affairs and international terrorism,
and author of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mr. Robert Lacey,
Historian and author of The Kingdom and Inside the Kingdom
Mr. Peter A. Iseman,
Historian and International Educator
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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July 28, 2010
Islamic Finance Forum
VIDEO
FLYER
PICTURES
Participating specialists:
Aamir Rehman, Managing Director at Fajr Capital Limited and author of Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States and Gulf Capital & Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players
Umar Moghul, Partner at Murtha Cullina LLP and co-chair of the firm's Islamic Finance and Investments Group
Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and author of Islamic Finance in the Global Economy
Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Chief Shariah Officer at Shariah Capital
Frank Vogel, Professor Harvard Law School and author of The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution and Progress and Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia
Moderator:
Jean-François Seznec, Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
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June 30, 2010
The Arab World and the
Future of Global Energy Supply:
Realities, Risks, and Prospects
VIDEO
AUDIO (.mp3)
FLYER
PICTURES
Participating specialists:
Mr. Guy Caruso, Senior Advisor, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Ms. Molly Williamson, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, and Immediate Past Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy
Ms. Randa Fahmy-Hudome, President, Fahmy-Hudome International, and Former Associate Deputy Secretary of Energy
Ms. Sarah Ladislaw, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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March 31, 2010
A Conversation with
His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
to the United States
C-SPAN VIDEO
THE WASHINGTON DIPLOMAT'S RECAP
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PICTURES
Featured Speaker: HRH Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein
Moderator: Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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December 22, 2009
Report from the Gulf Cooperation Council's Ministerial and Heads of State Summit in Kuwait, December 2009:
What Did and Did Not Happen and What Next?
C-SPAN VIDEO
AUDIO - Part 1 (.mp3)
AUDIO - Part 2 (.mp3)
'HOW' QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
Featured Speaker: Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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December 10, 2009
Yemen Headlined:
Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities
VIDEO
AUDIO - Part 1 (.mp3)
AUDIO - Part 2 (.mp3)
TRANSCRIPT (.pdf)
PROJECT ON MIDDLE EAST DEMOCRACY RECAP
REMARKS REFERENCED BY AMB. JAMES LAROCCO
PICTURES
Participating specialists:
Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Director, Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative, Princeton University, and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
Dr. Christopher Boucek, Associate in the Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mr. Gregory Johnsen, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University; Co-Founder, Waq al-Waq: Islam and Insurgency in Yemen Blog; and former Fulbright and American Institute for Yemen Studies
Fellow in Yemen
Ambassador James A. Larocco, Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, U.S. Department of Defense, and former U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait
Dr. Mustafa Alani, Senior Advisor and Research Program Director, Gulf Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; former Fulbright Fellow in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen; and one of two Americans to have served as an official observer for all four of Yemen's presidential and parliamentary elections
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February 17, 2009
Islamic Finance and the Global Economic Crisis
FLYER
SLIDES FROM DR. YUSUF TALAL DELORENZO (.pdf)
SLIDES FROM MR. MICHAEL MCMILLEN (.pdf)
DIPLOMATIC CONNECTIONS RECAP (.pdf)
PICTURES
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo,
Chief Shariah Officer, Shariah Capital
Mr. Michael McMillen,
Attorney, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Moderator:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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December 16, 2008
A Conversation with
H.E. Samir Shakir M. Sumaida'ie,
Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the United States
C-SPAN VIDEO
PROGRAM (.pdf)
TRANSCRIPT (.pdf)
WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS ARTICLE
Featured Speaker: H.E. Samir Shakir M. Sumaida'ie
Moderator: Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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December 2, 2008
A Conversation with
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Sa'ud
WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS ARTICLE
Featured Speaker: HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Sa'ud
Moderator: Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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June 16, 2008
A Conversation with a Delegation Representing
the Majlis Ash-Shura (Consultative Council)
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Delegation Members:
H.E. Dr. Bandar Bin Mohammed Al Eiban, Chairman of the Saudi US Friendship Committee
H.E. Engineer, Usamah Bin Mohammed Al-Kurdi; Member of the Council
H.E. Yousef A. El-Maimani, Member of the Council
H.E. Dr. Khalid Ibrahim Al-Awwad, Member of the Council
H.E. Dr. Nihad M. A. Jishi, Consultant for the Council
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June 5, 2008
The Implications of Sovereign Wealth Funds
For American Interests and U.S. Policies
Featured Speakers:
Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA)
Co-Chair of the House Sovereign Wealth Funds Task Force
Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA)
Co-Chair of the House Sovereign Wealth Funds Task Force
Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
Official Designee of the House Committee on
Financial Services to the Sovereign Wealth Funds Task Force
Presider:
Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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April 1, 2008
Changing Dynamics of U.S.-Mideast Defense Relations: Withdraw? Downsize? Remain Engaged?
Redeploy? Reconfigure?
WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS ARTICLE
Featured Speaker: General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.)
Introduction by: Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA)
Presider: Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President & CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
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March 19, 2008
Energy Interdependence versus Independence:
Rhetoric & Reality
Featured Speakers:
The Honorable Karen Harbert, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy
Dr. Herman Franssen, President, International Energy Associates & Senior Associate, CSIS Energy and National Security Program
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The National Council does not employ or retain a lobbyist. Please note that these events meet the criteria of a "widely attended event," as defined under the new House ethics rules: the events are open to the public and are actively advertised to an audience of non-Hill staff, with the expectation that more than 25 non-Hill staff will attend. If Hill staffers have further questions, they should contact the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct at (202) 225-7103.
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