Saturday, March 1, 2014
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Domestic Politics in the Gulf
Frederic Wehrey | Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprising
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Matar Ebrahim Matar | Scholar at Risk, Bahrain; Former Member of Parliament with the al-Wefaq Political Party, resigned in protest of government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors; Recipient, 2011 Leaders of Democracy Award, Project on Middle East Democracy
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Presentation of the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy by Lilly Tahmasebi '17, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member:
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah | Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait
Moderated by Roland Gillah '16, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member