Audio/Video

Saturday, March 1, 2014
8:00 PM

The Unravelling of Syria

Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist, contributing to Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio and other major media outlets

Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award to U.S. Amb. Robert Ford by Wen Hoe '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member

Amb. Robert Ford | U.S. Ambassador to Syria (January 2011 to February 2014)

Mark Katz | Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University; Author, “Moscow’s Middle East Policy” (in Focus Quarterly, 2014)

Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Aaron Zelin | Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, King’s College of London

Radwan Ziadeh | Scholar at Risk, Syria; Recipient, 2009 Academic Freedom Award, Middle East Studies Association; Senior Fellow, United States Institute for Peace; Founder and Director, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies

Moderated by Sam Rock '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member

Iraq: Its Uncertain Future
Friday, February 28, 2014

Yasir Abbas | Former Interpreter, U.S. military in Iraq, 2005-09, where he helped start and organize the Awakening Councils in northwestern Baghdad; 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member

Peter Harling | Project Director, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria and Senior Middle East and North Africa Adviser, International Crisis

Group Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq

Emma Sky | Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute, Yale University; former Political Advisor to U.S. General Ray Odierno, Iraq; former Governorate Coordinator of Kirkuk, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq

Friday, February 28, 2014
9:00 AM

Iraq: Its Uncertain Future

Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq

Emma Sky | Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute, Yale University; former Political Advisor to U.S. General Ray Odierno, Iraq; former Governorate Coordinator of Kirkuk, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq

Peter Harling | Project Director, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria and Senior Middle East and North Africa Adviser, International Crisis Group

Yasir Abbas | Former Interpreter, U.S. military in Iraq, 2005-09, where he helped start and organize the Awakening Councils in northwestern Baghdad; 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member

Elayne Stecher ’14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member: “What’s next for Iraq?”

Moderated by Patrick Hamon '16, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member

Friday, February 28, 2014
2:30 - 4:30 PM

Political Islam and Governance

Issandr el Amrani | Project Director, North Africa, International Crisis Group; Founder, The Arabist blog
Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi | Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Direc- tor, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University
Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Becky Allen and Eloise Harnett, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members, to:
Robert P. Parks | Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (American Institute for Maghrib Studies)
Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
​Presentation of EPIIC Colloquium Recognition Award by Kirsten Gute, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member, to:
Hugh Roberts | Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University; former Director, North Africa Project, International Crisis Group

Student Presentation:
Max Fathy '14 and Rebecca Varley '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members: The Turkish Model: Perception vs Reality

Moderated by Sam Whitefield '16, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member