Speakers: Mohamad Bazzi and Eugene Rogan Presider: Raghida Dergham
Mohamad Bazzi, CFR's adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies and assistant professor of journalism at New York University, and Eugene Rogan, faculty fellow and university lecturer in the modern history of the Middle East at University of Oxford's St. Antony's College, discuss how Middle Eastern monarchies are responding to the pressures created by the Arab uprisings.
This session was part of a CFR symposium, Implications of the Arab Uprisings, which was made possible by the generous support of Rita E. Hauser, and organized in cooperation with University of Oxford's St. Antony's College.
Speakers: Kim Barker, Mohamad Bazzi, Christopher S. Dickey and Kathy Gannon Introductory Speaker: Richard N. Haass Presider: Christiane Amanpour
Council on Foreign Relations fellows discuss the role of the foreign correspondent in covering war zones at the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship 60th Anniversary Event.
In this teleconference with Steven A. Cook, Mohamad Bazzi provides an overview of the upcoming elections in Lebanon, and puts forward several post-election scenarios.
Mohamad Bazzi speaks with Al Jazeera's Inside Iraq about the recent peace pact between Iraq's most influential Shia clerics - Muqtada al-Sadr and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. The pact is seen by political observers as a significant shift towards stabilising Iraq's warring Shia factions.
Siniora: U.S. Must Capitalize on bin Laden Killing to Address Mideast Issues
Fuad Siniora, former prime minister of Lebanon, discusses the implications of Osama bin Laden's death for the Middle East, the Hamas-Fatah agreement, and the U.S. role in supporting the Arab Spring with Mohamad Bazzi, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.