Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Expertise
Middle East; Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Michele Dunne, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council of the United States
Presider:
James J. Zogby, President, Arab American Institute
Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Michele Dunne, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council of the United States
Presider:
James J. Zogby, President, Arab American Institute
U.S.-Turkey Relations - A New Partnership: Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force
Speakers:
Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former U.S. Secretary of State; Task Force Co-Chair, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Adviser for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace; Former U.S. National Security Adviser; Task Force Co-Chair, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Task Force Project Director
Presider:
David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, "Washington Post"
U.S.-Turkey Relations - A New Partnership: Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force
Speakers:
Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former U.S. Secretary of State; Task Force Co-Chair, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Adviser for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace; Former U.S. National Security Adviser; Task Force Co-Chair, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Task Force Project Director
Presider:
David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, "Washington Post"
U.S.-Turkey Relations: A New Partnership Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force
Speakers:
Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former Secretary of State, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, CFR; Task Force Project Director
Presider:
Gary Rosen, Editor, Review, Wall Street Journal
May 8, 201212:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch 1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
U.S.-Turkey Relations: A New Partnership Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force
Speakers:
Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former Secretary of State, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, CFR; Task Force Project Director
Presider:
Gary Rosen, Editor, Review, Wall Street Journal
May 8, 201212:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch 1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
Session Four: Regional Consequences: The Geopolitics of the Changing Middle East
Speakers:
Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, Marwa Daoudy, Visiting Lecturer in International Affairs and Visiting Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (Currently on leave as Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford), Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College; Former Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
Presider:
Michael Slackman, Deputy Foreign Editor and Former Cairo Bureau Chief, New York Times
Center for Preventive Action Symposium on Preventive Priorities for a New Era, Session Two: Outlook for Critical Regions
Speakers:
Steven A. Cook, Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Fellow for Africa, Council on Foreign Relations, Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider:
Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations
Geneive Abdo, Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies; Author, Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11, Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science; Director, International Institute; Vice Provost for International Affairs, University of Michigan
Presider:
Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Fractured Alliance? The Future of U.S.-Turkey Relations
Speakers:
Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; and coauthor, Council Special Report, Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations; and coauthor, Council Special Report, Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations
Presider:
Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group; and former United States Ambassador to Turkey
The Emerging Shia Crescent Symposium: Is Shia Power Cause for Concern?
Speakers:
Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Toby C. Jones, Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Middle East History, Swarthmore College, Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider:
Ethan S. Bronner, Deputy Foreign Editor, The New York Times
A look at Hosni Mubarak's meeting with President Obama in Washington with Steven Cook of The Council on Foreign Relations and Michele Dunne of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Charlie Rose.
Egypt's Democratic Quest: From Nasser to Tahrir Square
Egypt's 2011 revolution marks the latest chapter in Egyptians' longtime struggle for greater democratic freedoms. In this CFR video, Steven A. Cook, CFR's Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies and author of "The Struggle for Egypt," identifies the lessons that Egypt's emerging leadership must learn from the Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak regimes.
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