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John Duke Anthony Report from 2009 Gulf Cooperation Council Summit - Part 2 Dec 22, 2009

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Report from the Gulf Cooperation Council's Ministerial and Heads of State Summit in Kuwait, December 2009: What Did and Did Not Happen and What Next? Featured Speaker: > Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Recorded December 22, 2009 in Washington, DC Visit www.ncusar.org for more information

Yemen Headlined: Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities - Part 2 Dec 10, 2009

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Yemen Headlined: Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities - Participating panelists include: > Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Director, Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative, Princeton University, and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen > Dr. Christopher Boucek, Associate in the Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace > Mr. Gregory Johnsen, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University; Co-Founder, Waq al-Waq: Islam and Insurgency in Yemen Blog; and former Fulbright and American Institute for Yemen Studies Fellow in Yemen > Ambassador James A. Larocco, Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, U.S. Department of Defense, and former U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait > Dr. Mustafa Alani, Senior Advisor and Research Program Director, Gulf Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Moderator: > Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; former Fulbright Fellow in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen; and one of two Americans to have served as an official observer for all four of Yemen's presidential and parliamentary elections Recorded December 10, 2009 in Washington, DC Visit www.ncusar.org for more information

Yemen Headlined: Contemporary Myths and Empirical Realities - Part 1 Dec 10, 2009

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Iraq's Return to Sovereignty [2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference] Oct 15, 2009

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H.E. Samir Sumaida'ie, Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the United States; Dr. Rochelle Davis, Assistant Professor of Arab Culture and Society (Anthropology), Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Dr. Joseph C. Moynihan, Vice President, Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems; and Dr. John Duke Anthony, President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; at NCUSAR's 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

Israel and Palestine [2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference] Oct 15, 2009

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Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies and Chair, Middle Eastern Studies Program, University of San Francisco; H.E. Dr. Hussein Hassouna, Ambassador of the League of Arab States to the United States of America; Member, United Nations International Law Commission; H.E. Maen Rashid Areikat, Ambassador and Head of Mission, Mission of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the United States; Dr. Thomas Neu, Executive Director, Friends of UNRWA - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine; and Mr. Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group; at NCUSAR's 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

Ambassador's Roundtable [2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference] Oct 15, 2009

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H.E. Adel A. Al-Jubeir, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States; The Hon. James B. Smith (Brigadier General, USAF, Ret.) Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and former United States Ambassadors to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The Hon. Walter L. Cutler, The Hon. Chas Freeman, Jr., The Hon. Wyche Fowler, The Hon. James C. Oberwetter, and The Hon. Robert Jordan; at NCUSAR's 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

Admiral William J. Fallon (USN, Ret.) Keynote Speech [2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference] Oct 15, 2009

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Admiral William J. Fallon (USN, Ret.), Distinguished Fellow, Center for Naval Analysis; former Commander, U.S. Central Command (2007- 2008); and former Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (February 2005-March 2007); at NCUSAR's 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

H.E. Mohammed Bin Abdullah Bin Mutib Al Rumaihi Keynote Speech [2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference] Oct 15, 2009

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H.E. Mohammed Bin Abdullah Bin Mutib Al Rumaihi, Foreign Minister's Assistant for Follow Up Affairs, State of Qatar; Qatar's Ambassador to France and non-resident Ambassador to Belgium, the Swiss Federation, Luxemburg and the European Union (2002-2003); Head of the Government Committee for Delineating Maritime Borders and the Working Team of the UN Security Council (2006-2007); headed the organizing committees of international conferences such as F77, China 2005, New and Restored Democracies 2006, Gulf Summit 2007, Financing Development Summit 2008, Arab Summit 2009 and Arab and Latin America Summit 2009; former Major General, Qatari Armed Forces; at NCUSAR's 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

Views from the U.S. Department of State [2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference] Oct 15, 2009

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Ambassador Ronald L. Schlicher, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State, at NCUSAR's 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

2009 Conference Welcome and Introductions [2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference] Oct 15, 2009

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Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; and Rear Admiral Harold J. Bernsen, (USN, Ret.), Chairman, Board of Directors, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; at NCUSAR's 2009 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.