Program | Schedule
Domestic Politics in the Gulf: Regional Impact
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
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
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
Presentation of the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy by Lilly Tahmasebi '17, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Presentation of Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy
Presentation of Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy to Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait
Vying for Influence: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Nawaf Obaid | Visiting Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Special Advisor for National Security Affairs to Prince Turki Al Faisal, Saudi Arabia
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Wu Bingbing | Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Culture, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Moderated by Ayesha Forbes '15, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
International Institutions and Intervention
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Richard Atwood | Director of Research and future Director of Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
Eileen Babbitt | Professor of Practice of International Conflict Management, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Michael Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Duncan Pickard | Nonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East; Constitutional Adviser, Democracy Reporting International
Mark Katz | Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University; Author, “Moscow’s Middle East Policy” (inFocus Quarterly, 2014)
Hugh Roberts | Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University; former Director, North Africa Project, International Crisis Group
Moderated by Elissa Miller '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Expert-led Discussions/Breakout Sessions
Political Islam
Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi | Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University
Elizabeth Nugent | PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Robert P. Parks | Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (American Institute for Maghrib Studies)
State of the State
Nimrod Hurvitz | Professor of Middle East History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Jonathan Shimshoni | Retired Battalion and Brigade Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; Author, Israel and Conventional Deterrence
Media
Ahmed Benchemsi | Visiting Scholar, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Stanford University; Founding Publisher and Editor, TelQuel (French) and Nishan (Arabic)
Amahl Bishara | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University; Author, “New Media and Political Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Assembling Media Worlds and Cultivating Networks of Care”
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist
Mourad Gargoum | Former Head, Media Office, National Council for Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Libya
Rule of Law & Human Rights
Enes Aldsrey | Head, Documenting and Monitoring Department, Benghazi Office, National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Sherif Mansour | Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists; former Senior Program Officer, Freedom House
Iran and Nuclear Proliferation
Ariel Levite | Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Principal Deputy Director General for policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Trauma and Resilience
Justine Hardy | Mental Trauma Specialist; Writer
Entrepreneurship
Gideon Argov | Founder, Shlomo Argov Fellows, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel; Advisory Director, Berkshire Partners
Dick Simon | Chair and Co-Founder, Peace Action Network, Young Presidents’ Organization
Terrorism
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
Refugees
Mike Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Women
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh | Scholar at Risk, Iran; Founder, Meydaan Zanan (Women’s Field); former Editor in Chief, Farzaneh Journal; Editor and Chief Researcher, Alternative National Report on Women’s Status in Iran
Dalia Ziada | Executive Director, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Israel-Palestine
Robert Blecher | Deputy Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group
Mouin Rabbani | Head, Programme in the Middle East, Conflict Management Initiative
Gulf politics
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Lebanon
Sahar Atrache | Lebanon Analyst, International Crisis Group
Alex Taylor | Former Reporter and International Editor, The Daily Star, Beirut; MALD Candidate, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Unraveling of Syria
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist, contributing to Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio and other major media outlets
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Denis Sullivan | Professor of Political Science and Director, Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, Northeastern University
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
Irina Zvyagelskaya | Vice-President, Centre for Strategic and Political Studies, Russia; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Bruna Gaspar '16, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Moderated by Sam Rock '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Callouts
ALLIES
The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations.
TILIP
The Tufts Initiative for International Leadership and Perspective (TILIP) is a program that seeks to foster cross-cultural team building through intensive, intellectual inquiry and practical study.
[EXPOSURE]
[EXPOSURE] is the Institute for Global Leadership's undergraduate-led program for photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights.