Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East

Roundtable

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East

Director:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy

September 1, 2002 - Present

This series invites scholars, policymakers, and leaders to discuss a wide range of issues related to social, political, and economic development, women's empowerment, and education.

Meetings

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: The Future of Democracy in Egypt

Roundtable Meeting

September 26, 2008

Speaker:	Gameela Ismail, Democracy Activist, Egypt
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: Democracy in the Arab World

Roundtable Meeting

May 28, 2008

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Tamara Cofman Wittes is senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and author of Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy.

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: Implications of the Middle East Youthquake

Roundtable Meeting

April 10, 2008

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Cheryl Benard, Consultant, RAND Corporation

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: The Meaning of Democracy - Indonesia Ten Years after Suharto

Roundtable Meeting

December 4, 2007

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Sandra Hamid, Director, Aceh Programs, The Asia Foundation, Indonesia

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: A Discussion with Ambassador Zahir Tanin

Roundtable Meeting

November 20, 2007

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Islamic State of Afghanistan to the UN

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: Prospects for Reform in Egypt - A Conversation with Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Roundtable Meeting

October 24, 2007

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers:	Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
	Saad Ibrahim, Director, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: Muslim Organizations in the West: Bridging a Growing Divide - A Conversation with Ingrid Mattson

Roundtable Meeting

May 29, 2007

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Ingrid Mattson, President, Islamic Society of North America

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: Covering Iran - Journalists' Perspectives on the Islamic Republic

Roundtable Meeting

April 5, 2007

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers:	Laura Secor, Editor, New York Times
	Solmaz Sherif, Iranian Journalist

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East: CEDAW - Is U.S. Ratification Possible?

Roundtable Meeting

March 13, 2007

Speaker:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Extremism and Reform in Pakistan - The Role of Madrassas

Roundtable Meeting

March 6, 2007

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers:	C. Chrstine Fair, U.S. Institute of Peace
	Azhar Hussain, International Center for Religion & Diplomacy

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Voices of the New Arab Public - Media and Civil Society in the Arab World

Roundtable Meeting

December 12, 2006

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science, Williams College

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Saudi Arabia - Prospects for Reform

Roundtable Meeting

November 30, 2006

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, Foreign Service Institute

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Development and Security in Afghanistan - Perspectives from the Field

Roundtable Meeting

November 16, 2006

Speakers:	Homayra Ludin Etemadi, Future Generations
	Rina Amiri, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Women and Political Change in Asia

Roundtable Meeting

October 19, 2006

Speakers:	Bong-Scuk Sohn, Member, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
	Nanda Pok, Founder and Executive Director, Women for Prosperity (Cambodia)
	Suteera Vichitranonda, Gender and Development Research Institute (Thailand)
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Health and Development in Africa

Roundtable Meeting

October 4, 2006

Speakers:	The Honorable Joyce Banda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Republic of Malawi
	Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Iran's Democratization Process

Roundtable Meeting

June 23, 2006

Speaker:	Fatemeh Haghighatjou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations

12:15 - 2:00 p.m.

Women and Foreign Policy Symposium: The U.S. Government Response to Trafficking

Symposium

May 3, 2006

Speaker:	John Miller, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State
Presider:	Kavita Ramdas, President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Fund for Women

12:15 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Meeting

Transcript: Symposium on Human Trafficking Session 3: The U.S. Government Response to Trafficking [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]
Audio: U.S. Foreign Policy and Women Symposium: The U.S. Government Response to Trafficking (audio)

This meeting is on the record.

Women and Foreign Policy Symposium: Human Trafficking - An Overview

Roundtable Meeting

May 3, 2006

Speakers:	Ann Jordan, Director, Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons, Global Rights
	Neha Misra, Global Coordinator, Counter Trafficking Programs & Program Officer, Africa Region, American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center), AFL-CIO
	Jyoti Sanghera, Advisor on Trafficking, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

8:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Transcript: Symposium on Human Trafficking Session 1: Human Trafficking, an Overview [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]
Audio: U.S. Foreign Policy and Women Symposium: Human Trafficking - An Overview (audio)

This meeting is on the record.

Women and Foreign Policy Symposium: Human Trafficking - Global Health and Security

Roundtable Meeting

May 3, 2006

Speakers:	Sarah E. Mendelson, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
	Joy Zarembka, Director, Break the Chain Campaign
	Alice Miller, Professor, Department of Population and Family Health, School of Public Health, Columbia University; Law and Health Advisor, Sexual Health and Rights Project, Open Society Institute
Presider:	Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times

10:45 - 12:15 p.m.

Transcript: Symposium on Human Trafficking Session 2: Human Trafficking and Global Health [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]
Audio: U.S. Foreign Policy and Women Symposium: Human Trafficking - Global Health and Security (audio)

This meeting is on the record.

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Democratization in Iran

Roundtable Meeting

April 27, 2006

Speaker:	Fatemeh Haghighatjou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

12:15 - 2:00 p.m.

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Islamic Law in Nigeria

Roundtable Meeting

February 23, 2006

Speaker:	Hauwa Ibrahim, Yale World Fellow, Yale University
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

12:00-2:00 p.m. Meeting

Transcript: Islamic Law in Nigeria [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

Roundtable on Women and Foreign Policy: Emerging Democracy in Afghanistan - What to Expect

Roundtable Meeting

January 30, 2006

Speakers:	Sarah P. Chayes, Field Director, Afghans for Civil Society
	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

12:15–2:00 p.m. Meeting

Is the U.S. Government's Vision of Afghanistan Achievable?

Roundtable Meeting

January 13, 2006

Speaker:	Barbara Rodey, USAID
Presider:	Philip-Michael Gary

Women in Iraq: The Way Forward

Roundtable Meeting

November 8, 2005

Speakers:	Ann Greenstock
	Molly Phee, U.S. Department of State
	Jane Arraf, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider:	Isobel Coleman

Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable: Shariah, Women's Rights, and the Iraqi Constitution

Roundtable Meeting

October 11, 2005

Speakers:	Nathan Brown, Carnegie Endowment
	Haleh Esfandiari, Woodrow Wilson Center
Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

8:15 – 10:00 AM Meeting

Moving from Rhetoric to Reality: The Status of Women's Empowerment in Afghanistan

Roundtable Meeting

May 26, 2005

Commentator:	Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies, Center on International Cooperation
Presider:	Isobel Coleman
Speaker:	Masuda Sultan, Program Director, Women for Afghan Women

Women's Rights in a New Iraq: The Constitution and the Future

Roundtable Meeting

May 11, 2005

Presider:	Isobel Coleman
Speaker:	Manal Omar, Iraq Country Director, Women for Women International

Changing the Face of India: The Economic and Political Empowerment of Women

Roundtable Meeting

May 5, 2005

Presider:	Isobel Coleman
Speaker:	Jaya Arunachalam, Founder, Working Women's Forum

Democracy in the Middle East: A View from Kuwait

Roundtable Meeting

March 8, 2005

Presider:	Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Lubna Al-Kazi, Professor of Sociology, Kuwait University

Afghanistan's Upcoming National Elections: A Conversation with Parliamentary Candidate Soraya Parlika

Roundtable Meeting

March 3, 2005

Presider:	Isobel Coleman
Speaker:	Soraya Parlika, President, All Afghan Women's Union

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New CFR Books

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America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

Complete list of CFR Books.

New Council Special Reports

Congo: Securing Peace, Sustaining Progress

This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.

Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism

In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.

Complete list of Council Special Reports.

David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

Gary Samore
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9627
gsamore@cfr.org

Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
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Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
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Roundtable

Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East

New CFR Books

New Council Special Reports

Congo: Securing Peace, Sustaining Progress

Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism

David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts