Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam
Staff: Rachel Bronson, Former Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
October 1, 2001 - Present
The U.S. ability to build productive relationships with Islamic states and people will have a direct and important role in stanching the terrorist threat. This roundtable will continue to focus on the following objectives: to determine how the war is affecting American relations with the Middle East and Islamic world; and provide recommendations to policy makers on how to manage unavoidable differences with key regional partners. Questions addressed throughout the year will be:
• Is the Israeli-Palestinian crisis distracting from the war on terrorism?
• What must Washington ask from key regional partners such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the war on terrorism and what should it offer in return?
• Can the United States effectively deter the export of Islamic radicalism, how and at what cost?
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam: Saudi Arabia Today
Speaker: Nawaf Obaid, Hess Energy Trading Company LLC
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
November 3, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam: Religion in Middle Eastern Schoolbooks - Who Belongs and Who Doesn't
Speakers: Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Watson Institute, Brown University
Ali Al-Ahmed
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
October 24, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad
Speaker: Matthew Levitt, U.S. Department of Treasury
Presider: Rachel Bronson
April 17, 2006
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Roundtable Meeting
Trends in and Implications of WMD Proliferation in the Middle East
Speaker: James Russell, Senior Lecturer, Naval Post Graduate School
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
February 24, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam: Israel's Fateful Choices
Speaker: Asher Susser, Director, Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East and Gulf Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
February 8, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
The Middle East Landscape and America's Options
Speaker: Amir Taheri
Presider: Rachel Bronson
December 8, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Discussion with Hussein Shobokshi
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Hussein Shobokshi, Shobokshi Development & Trading
May 25, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Faith at War: Reports from the Islamic World
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speakers: Yaroslav Trofimov, Staff Correspondent for Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia Bureaus, The Wall Street Journal, Author of Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu
Eliza Griswold, Freelance Journalist
May 4, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Promoting Democracy in the Middle East: Do We Know How to Be Effective?
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Marina Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
March 16, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Confronting Iraq's Security and Economic Challenges
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Samir Sumaida'ie, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations
December 14, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Trudy S. Rubin, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
November 22, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Integration or Repression: Building the Saudi State
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East and Gulf Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Mai Yamani, Associate Fellow, Royal Institute for International Affairs
October 14, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Saudi Arabia and the WTO
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Dorothy Dwoskin, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the WTO, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
June 21, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Why Ariel Sharon's Withdrawal Plan Makes Sense
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Clinton Bailey
May 11, 2004
Contact Meredith Angelson at (212) 434-9660 or mangelson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Syria-Israel-Lebanon Triangle
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Michael Young, The Daily Star
March 9, 2004
Contact Kareem Idriss at (212) 434-9680 or kidriss@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
The Future of Iraq: Oil, Politics, Where are We Going?
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speakers: Hassan Fatah, Iraq Today
Issam Chalabi, Al-Sanam for Petroleum & Economic Consultancy
February 18, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Saudi Education and the Prospects for Reform
Presider: Richard W. Murphy
Speakers: William A. Rugh, University of Vermont
F. Gregory Gause III, Columbia University
Lisa Anderson, University of Texas at Austin
Gwenn Okruhlik, The Watson Institute
Eleanor Doumato
November 18, 2003
Roundtable Meeting
The Challenges Facing the Middle East
Presider: Frank G. Wisner, American International Group, Inc.
Speaker: Nabil Fahmy, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
November 4, 2003
Roundtable Meeting
Building Civil Society Institutions in Saudi Arabia: A View from Inside
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker
October 22, 2003
Contact Rachel Abramson at 212-434-9660 or rabramson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Building Security in Afghanistan: Lessons Learned
Presiders: Rachel Bronson
Mahnaz Ispahani
Speaker: Karl W. Eikenberry, Department of Defense
October 2, 2003
Contact Rachel Abramson at 212-434-9660 or rabramson@cfr.org
This meeting is co-sponsored with the Roundtable on Alternative Futures for Southern Asia and U.S. Policy, a project directed by Mahnaz Ispahani, Senior Fellow for South and West Asia.
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with Nizar Hamdoon
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Nizar Hamdoon
June 5, 2003
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with Robert M. Perito
Presider: Rachel Bronson
June 3, 2003
Contact Inga-britt Hunter at 212-434-9688 or ihunter@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Iran
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers: Ray Takeyh, Yale University
Nasser Hadian, Tehran University/SIPA
January 15, 2003
Contact Daniel Bloch at 212-434-9784 or dbloch@cfr.org
Meeting Cancelled
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A Conversation with Robert Jordan
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Robert W. Jordan, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, U.S. Department of State
December 13, 2002
Contact Daniel Bloch at 212-434-9784 or dbloch@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
The Tragedy of the Middle East: Why the Region Is Really in a Mess
Presider: Scott B. Lasenksy
Speaker: Barry Rubin, Global Search for International Affairs
November 4, 2002
Contact: Rachel Abramson at 212-434-9660 or rabramson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Helping the Good Guys in the Middle East: U.S. Diplomacy and the Case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Barbara Ibrahim
October 23, 2002
Contact Daniel Bloch at 212-434-9784 or dbloch@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Iraqi Kurdistan: Trip Report
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: David L. Phillips
September 25, 2002
Contact: Rachel Abramson at 212-434-9660 or rabramson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Middle East Peace: Options for Moving Forward
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Shai Feldman, Tel Aviv University
August 18, 2002
Contact: Rachel Abramson at 212-434-9660 or rabramson@cfr.org
General Meeting
Iraq and the Next Phase
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Amatzia Baram, University of Haifa
July 22, 2002
Contact: Rachel Abramson at 212-434-9660 or rabramson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
A Talk with the Editor of Arab News
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Jamal Khashoggi, Arab News
June 11, 2002
Contact: Sarah Saghir at 212-434-9627 or ssaghir@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
A Trip Report: How America's Gulf Allies Are Responding to the War on Terrorism
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Judith Kipper
March 22, 2002
Contact: Nora Kahn at 212-434-9610 or nkahn@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
The Middle East and South America: Is There a Terrorist Connection?
Speaker: Alberto R. Coll, Naval War College
March 14, 2002
Contact: Nora Kahn at 212-434-9610 or nkahn@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Islamic Funamentalism
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speakers: Ibrahim Karawan, University of Utah
Quintan Wiktorowicz, Rhodes College
February 28, 2002
Roundtable Meeting
China’s Islamic Opposition Post 9/11: Evaluating the Threat
Presiders: Rachel Bronson
Elizabeth C. Economy
Speakers: Nicolas Becquelin, Senior Researcher, Human Rights in China
Gardner Bovingdon, Fellow, Washington University
February 11, 2002
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