static1static2static3static4

ft   y

Tentative Program and List of Speakers- Middle East Dialogue 2013

 

The Middle East Dialogue 2013 is a space for policy makers, scholars, business leaders, community members, and other experts to discuss important policy issues. It focuses on education initiatives, social, economic and political reform, nuclear proliferation, interfaith dialogue, women's gains and challenges, peace initiatives, and potential areas of conflict. We welcome a spectrum of political and religious persuasions to discuss issues in a spirit of tolerance and free discourse.

 
 
To RSVP CLICK HERE
 
Below is the list of the MED 2013 tentative speakers and topics. Click on the title of each topic to read the abstract. 
 
Ivan Sascha Sheean, Ph.D, Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor- School of Public and International Affairs, University of Baltimore
 
Alan L. Moss, Ph.D, Senior Consultant- Employment Research Corporation
 
Robert Crane, Ph.D, Full Professor- Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies
 
Radwan Ziadeh, Ph.D, Syrian Center for Political & Strategic Studies
Paul Rowe, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Political Studies- Trinity Western University
 
Lawrence Davidson, Ph.D, Professor of History, West Chester University
 
Maria Frederika Malmström, Ph.D , School of Global Studies- University of Gothenburg and Nordic Africa Insitute, Uppsala
 
Alessandra Gonzalez, Ph.D, Post-Doctoral Research Associate- John Jay College, CUNY
 
Aylin Ünver Noi, Ph.D, Assistant Professor- Department of International Relations- Gedik University
 
Jerome Drevon, Ph.D Candidate- Durham University
 
Bessma Momani, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs- University of Waterloo
 
Abigail Appleton and Hiller Roach- American University in Cairo 
 
Ido Zelkovitz, Ph.D, Department of Middle Eastern History- Unviersity of Haifa, Israel
 
Sarah Tobin, Ph.D, Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Isalamic Studies, Department of Anthropology- Wheaton College
 
Andrew M. Wender, JD, Ph.D.- University of Victoria
 
Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D, Department of International Affairs- George Washington University
 
Maysam Behravesh, Ph.D Candidate- Lund University, Sweden
 
Chris Ferrero, Ph.D, Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations- Seton Hall University
 
Bahar Senem Çevik-Ersaydı, Ph.D- Ankara University 
 
Eylem Akdeniz, Ph.D- Instanbul Kemerburgaz University
 
Pervez Mohsin, Lecturer- National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
 
Peter Mameli, Ph.D, Department of Public Management- John Jay College CUNY
 
Yiyi Chen, Ph.D, Center for Middle Eastern Peace Studies- Shanghai Jiatong University
 
Sanaz Alasti, J.D., LL.M, S.J.D, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Program- Lamar University
 
Amir Fakhravar, Ph.D, Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Center for Culture and Security-The Institute of World Politics
 
Arab Spring and Modernization of Islam
Susmit Kumar, Ph.D Pennsylvania State University, President- Kumar Consultancy
 
 
Coptic Ethnological Mobilization on the Road to and Beyond the January 25 Revolution
Ali Zeynel Gokpinar, M.A., Dept. of Coexistence and Conflict- Brandeis University
 
 
The Paradoxical Status of Women in Israel
Michal Allon, Ph.D Faculty of Social Science- Tel Aviv University, Israel
 
TBA 
Maryam Abolfazil, Middle East North Africa Director- Eurasia Foundation
 
Josef Olmert, Ph.D Adjunct Professor, School of International Affairs- University at South Carolina
 
Kenneth Wise, Ph.D Director, Policy Research Division- B'huth
 
Towards Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Jerome Segal, PhD, Director of The Peace Consultancy Project- University of Maryland