PAST SPEAKERS
2006 - 2012 SPEAKERS
2012 SPEAKERS
Déjà Vu All Over Again? Iraq, Iran and the Israel Lobby
STEPHEN M. WALT, Professor, International Affairs, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
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Syria’s 40 Years of Assad Family Rule: the End
of an Era
THEODORE KATTOUF, Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria and UAE
The Arab Awakening and Saudi Youth
CARYLE MURPHY, Scholar and journalist
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Egypt: Cauldron on the Nile
MARK G. HAMBLEY, Former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon and Qatar
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Syria and the Quest for Change in the Middle East
NEIL MACFARQUAR, UN Bureau Chief, New York Times
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Turkey’s Role in the New Middle East
MALI MUFTI, Professor, Political Science, Tufts University
2011 SPEAKERS
Iran and Saudi Arabia: Rivalry over the Arab Spring
HALEH ESFANDIARI, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Winning Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
ANDREW WILDER, Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington D.C.
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Another Voice for Israel: J Street and the
Pro-Israel, Pro-peace Movement
STEPHEN KRUBINER, Director of Israel and International Programs, J Street
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Egypt: the Revolution is Incomplete
ANDREA RUGH, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.
WILLIAM RUGH, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and UAE
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Libya as a Test Case of Policy Dilemmas for Arab Governments and for the U.S.
DAVID MACK, VP, Middle East Institute and former
U.S. Ambassador to the UAE
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Religious Dimensions of the Middle East Conflict
HARVEY COX, Professor of Divinity, Harvard University
2008 SPEAKERS
Afghanistan: a Personal Perspective
JOSEPH GERSON, American Friends Service Committee
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The U.S. in the Middle East: an American Perspective
ROVERT H. PELLETREAU, JR., Former Asst. Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain
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The U.S. in the Middle East: an Arab Perspective
RAMI KHOURI, Director, Issam Fares Institute, American University in Beirut; Editor, Lebanon Daily Star
The Politics of Petroleum
NOAH BAKER MERRILL, Beyond the Nightmare: Hope, Healing and Lessons from an Iraqi-American Aid Project
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US military Interventions in the Middle East: an Historical Perspective
GEORGE M. LANE, Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
2006 SPEAKERS
Israelis and Palestinians: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
ANAT BILETZKI, Professor, Tel Aviv University; former Chairman of the Board, B’teslem
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Come to the Table: Stories of Non-violent Peacemaking in Iraq
SHEILA PROVENCHOR, Christian Peacemaker Team
in Baghdad, 2004–2006
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The U.S. and the Iran-Iraq Connection
IRENE L. GENZIER, Department of Political Science, Boston University; Co-editor, Crimes of War, Iraq
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The Middle East: the Diplomatic Dilemma
WILLIAM RUGH, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and UAE
Politics, Culture and Urbanization in the New Middle East
PAUL AMAR, Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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2007 SPEAKERS
Jerusalem ’07: A Sabbatical in Everybody’s
Holy City
REV. ROBERT EDMOND and DEBORAH EDMOND,
St. Andrew’s Church, Edgartown MA
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Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience
ALICE ROTHCHILD, Co-chair of the Boston Chapter
of Jewish Voice for Peace
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Syria: a Nation in the Crossfire
ELAINE HAGOPIAN, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College
Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
JOSH RUBINSTEIN, Amnesty International; Davis Center for Eurasian and Russian Studies, Harvard University
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