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Middle East and North Africa Programme - Audio and transcripts (members' only)
Members-only audio and transcripts from members' events related to Middle East and North Africa are listed below. Other event transcripts can be found in the reports and papers section under 'Other Resources'.
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Monday 8 June 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Lebanon's Parliamentary Elections and their Implications for the Middle East
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Visiting Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House; author, forthcoming Chatham House Briefing Paper, Confrontation through the Ballot Box: Middle East Elections and the US-Iranian Relationship
Roula Khalaf, Associate Editor and Middle East Editor, Financial Times
Chair: Nazenin Ansari, Diplomatic Editor, Kayhan (London)
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Monday 11 May 2009 13:30 to 14:30
The New Insurgent Landscape
David Kilcullen, Senior Fellow, Centre for a New American Security; Partner, Crumpton Group, a strategic advisory firm; Senior Advisor on Counterinsurgency to General David Petraeus and then Condoleeza Rice (2007-08); author of The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Chair: Frank Gardner OBE, BBC Security Correspondent
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Thursday 16 April 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Islamist Movements in the Wider Middle East
David Gardner, Chief Leader Writer and Associate Editor, Financial Times; author, Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance
Chair: Dr Claire Spencer, Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Thursday 16 April 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Yemeni Detainees and Jihadis: Guantanamo Repatriation and Saudi Arabia
David Remes, Legal Director, Appeal for Justice
Dr Mai Yamani, author, Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity
Chair: Nadim Shehadi, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Friday 3 April 2009 09:00 to 10:00
The Global Economic Crisis and Turkey
HE Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 1 April 2009 09:30 to 11:00
The London Summit: Multiple Perspectives on the G20
Dr Youssef Boutros-Ghali, Minister of Finance, Egypt; Chairman, International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC)
Lord Malloch-Brown, Prime Minister's Special Envoy for the G20 London Summit
Dan Price, Senior Partner for Global Issues, Sidley Austin
Stephen Roach, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia
Dr Paola Subacchi, Research Director, International Economics, Chatham House
Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House
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Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:30 to 18:30
The Prospect of Secular Islamism: Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Palestine
Dr Khaled Hroub, Director, Cambridge Arab Media Project, University of Cambridge
Chair: Dr Noel Brehony, Chairman, Council for British Research in the Levant
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Wednesday 25 March 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Lebanon: Future of the Middle East
Saad Rafiq Hariri, Leader of the Future Movement Party, Lebanon
Chair: David MacLennan, Former British Ambassador to Lebanon, 1996-2000
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Thursday 12 March 2009 11:00 to 12:00
The Kurdistan Region in Iraq: Future Prospects
HE Masoud Barzani, President, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Chair: Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP
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Thursday 12 March 2009 08:00 to 09:00
More Foreign, Less Office: Doing Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Under 35s Forum
James Bevan, Director-General for Change and Delivery, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chair: Zeina Al Khalifa, First Secretary, Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain
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Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:30 to 18:30
Afghanistan: Rhetoric and Reality
Rory Stewart, Harvard Professor and Head, Turquoise Mountain Foundation, Kabul and author, The Places in Between
Chair: Lyse Doucet, Presenter BBC World News; Council Member, Chatham House
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Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:30 to 18:30
The Israeli Election: Back to the Future?
Yossi Mekelberg, International Relations and Social Sciences Director, Regent's College; Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Dr Ahron Bregman, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
Chair: Dr Claire Spencer, Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
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Wednesday 28 January 2009 13:30 to 14:30
Gaza Crisis
Speakers include:
Ahmad Khalidi, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, Oxford; former Palestinian negotiator
Michel Massih QC
Chair: Sir Richard Dalton, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme
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