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In this episode, Uzair talks to Tuqa Nusairat about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, its key drivers and the path forward. We also talked about the regional responses so far and how the Biden administration has engaged with key partners in recent days. Tuqa Nusairat is the director for strategy, operations, and finance at Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs. Since joining the Council in 2012, she has played a key role in shaping the direction and growth of the Council's Middle East related programming, publications, outreach and development and has been instrumental in advancing relationships with vital stakeholders including donors, board members, and high-level contacts. In addition to managing a team of Washington-based fellows and staff, her research focuses on political reform, civil society, and human rights broadly in the region, with a special focus on Jordan. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:35 Contextualizing this moment 8:45 Hamas' strategic calculus 12:40 Palestinian views right now 17:10 Regional situation 21:33 Scenarios to keep in mind 25:30 Biden admin's response 32:30 China's response 36:08 Reading recommendations Reading recommendations: - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi - I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

Saudi entrepreneurs Sara Bin Laden and Renad Aljefri, recent WIN fellows, join The 966 from Jeddah to discuss their experiences and journeys to-date. Renad and Sara recently took part in the second cohort of the Atlantic Council's Women Innovators Fellowship, known as the WIN fellowship - a program launched by the empowerME initiative of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, by venture capitalist Amjad Ahmad. Before the conversation with Sara and Renad, the hosts discuss Richard's One Big Thing, the PIF's investments in Saudi football and the Saudi Pro League, as well as a discussion of the new names that will be playing in the Kingdom, like Karim Benzema and N'Golo Kanté, and Messi's decision to go to Miami. Then the hosts discuss Lucien's one big thing, the mixed picture presented by recent VC numbers in the MENA region. The hosts conclude as always with the program's "Yallah!" segment, featuring 6 top storylines on Saudi Arabia to get you up to speed heading into the weekend. 4:35 - Richard's One Big Thing, the PIF's investments in Saudi football and the Saudi Pro League, as well as a discussion of the new names that will be playing in the Kingdom, like Karim Benzema and N'Golo Kanté, and Messi's decision to go to Miami.26:38 - Lucien's One Big Thing is the mixed picture presented by recent VC numbers in the MENA region. May represented a bounce-back of sorts for the MENA VC and startup ecosystem, with venture funding into the region's startups touched $445 million spread across 39 transactions, compared to $7 million raised across 11 deals reported in the preceding month, according to a monthly report in Wamda. The UAE accounted for 90 per cent of the total raised during the period, but Saudi Arabia saw the most total investments into deals with 15. Saudi Arabia topped the charts thanks primarily to the graduation of seven homegrown startups from the Flat6labs Riyadh accelerator prorgram, headed by Riyadh-based venture capitalist Eyad Albayouk.38:34 - Saudi entrepreneurs Sara Bin Laden and Renad Aljefri, recent WIN fellows, join The 966 from Jeddah to discuss their experiences and journeys to-date. Renad and Sara recently took part in the second cohort of the Atlantic Council's Women Innovators Fellowship, known as the WIN fellowship - a program launched by the empowerME initiative of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, by venture capitalist Amjad Ahmad. The WIN Fellowship program is a collaboration between the Atlantic Council and Georgetown University, offering a structured fully sponsored yearlong executive training program, mentoring and networking opportunities with leading U.S. and MENA business executives, government officials, and policy experts. The top participants, and Renad and Sara were both selected for this - attend a fully sponsored trip to the United States for leadership training at Georgetown and meetings with US business and government leaders.1:08:45 - Yallah! 6 top storylines to get you up to speed heading into the weekend. Saudi Arabia will make a deep cut to its output in July on top of a broader OPEC+ deal to limit supply into 2024 as the group seeks to boost flagging oil prices. Saudi's energy ministry said the country's output would drop to 9 million barrels per day (bpd) in July from around 10 million bpd in May, the biggest reduction in years. OPEC+ has in place cuts of 3.66 million bpd, amounting to 3.6% of global demand, including 2 million bpd agreed last year and voluntary cuts of 1.66 million bpd agreed in April.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had an "open, candid" conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about a wide range of bilateral issues, a U.S. official said. Blinken's visit came days after top crude exporter Saudi Arabia pledged to deepen oil output cuts on top of a broader OPEC+ deal to limit supply, as it seeks to boost flagging oil prices despite opposition from the U.S. administration. Blinken and the crown prince met for an hour and forty minutes, a U.S. official said, covering topics including Israel, the conflict in Yemen, unrest in Sudan as well as human rights. The Iranian embassy in Saudi Arabia has been reopened at a ceremony attended by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriate Affairs Alireza Bigdeli. The previous day, on June 5, the Iranian foreign ministry had announced that the Riyadh embassy, consulate-general in Jeddah and the Iranian mission to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would be officially reopened on June 6 and 7. IATA — an association that represents around 300 airlines in 120 countries — forecasted that the global aviation industry's profits are expected to reach $9.8 billion in 2023, more than double the $4.7 billion forecast in December, driven by pent-up demand for air travel following the pandemic.  Revenue passenger-kilometers for Middle Eastern carriers stands at 88% of 2019's figures, showing the airlines in the region have already been making strong progress. GCC carriers will be at the forefront of the surge in passenger numberswhich IATA expects to double in the region to 550 million by 2040. The PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced a landmark agreement to unify the game of golf, on a global basis. The parties have signed an agreement that combines PIF's golf-related commercial businesses and rights (including LIV Golf) with the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour into a new, collectively owned, for-profit entity to ensure that all stakeholders benefit from a model that delivers maximum excitement and competition among the game's best players. The UK Government will be eliminating the need for visit visas for individuals from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and Jordan. Instead, these individuals will have the option to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation that will be valid for two years, and the cost for this will be only £10 ($12). This change will align the entry requirements for Gulf travellers and Jordanians with those of US and Australian citizens.

This is the fourth part of our four-episode series where we take a look at America's policy challenges for the next decade. In this episode, hosted by the Concordia Forum at the Atlantic Council headquarters in Washington D.C., Muddassar Ahmed is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the disparity between national and international agendas and the ways in which human rights abuses should be dealt with by global actors, all through the lens of the Uighur and Rohingya struggles. Our panellists include Arsalan Suleman (Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP), Rushan Abbas (Founder & Executive Director of Campaign for Uighurs), Yasmin Ullah (Rohingya Social Justice Activist), and Rayhan Asat (Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs, Atlantic Council), with opening remarks by Uzra Zeya (Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy & Human Rights, US State Department). This panel is led by Arif Hyder Ali, who is the Co-chair of International Arbitration Practice at Dechert LLP. He has served as lead trial counsel in international investment and commercial arbitrations under all of the major international arbitral regimes, the governing laws of over 50 civil and common law jurisdictions and international law. The episode was done in partnership with the Atlantic Council, international affairs think tank galvanizing U.S. leadership and engagement in the world.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jomana Qaddour and Gissou Nia about many of the human rights atrocities in the Syrian conflict. They discuss the origins and data on the Syrian conflict, a chronology of events in the conflict, and allies of the Syrian government. They discuss the atrocities of human rights violations and why the international community has been on the sidelines.  They discuss the international law dynamics and pragmatic ways in which aid could be delivered to the Syrian people.  Jomana Qaddour is a Senior Fellow of the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council. Currently, she is a doctorate student at Georgetown University Law Center where her work focuses on ethno-sectarianism in Syria, Iraq, and Bosnia. She has been a Senior Policy Analyst at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and Senior Research Assistant and Publications Manager for the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy. Twitter: @jomanaqaddour Gissou Nia is the Director of the Strategic Litigation Project for Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council. She is a human rights lawyer and is the board chair of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Her main interests focus on human rights advocacy, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Twitter: @gissounia

Russia's indiscriminate shelling of civilian targets in Ukraine is eerily reminiscent of its involvement in the war in Syria, where the goal was to crush civilian morale amid an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. How did top global powers allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to be successful in Syria? Are there signs that he'll enjoy similar success now, in Ukraine?  Guest: William Wechsler, senior director of the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russia's indiscriminate shelling of civilian targets in Ukraine is eerily reminiscent of its involvement in the war in Syria, where the goal was to crush civilian morale amid an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. How did top global powers allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to be successful in Syria? Are there signs that he'll enjoy similar success now, in Ukraine?  Guest: William Wechsler, senior director of the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russia's indiscriminate shelling of civilian targets in Ukraine is eerily reminiscent of its involvement in the war in Syria, where the goal was to crush civilian morale amid an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. How did top global powers allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to be successful in Syria? Are there signs that he'll enjoy similar success now, in Ukraine?  Guest: William Wechsler, senior director of the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A protest organised by Hezbollah against the judge leading the probe into last year's Beirut blast turned deadly on Thursday when snipers opened fire on protestors. At least seven people have been killed. Many fear Lebanon could be once again heading in the direction of a civil war. Guests: Jad Ghosn Journalist specialising in Lebanese politics Mona Alami Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East Fellow Bachar El-Halabi Middle East and North Africa Analyst at Clipper Data LLC

Negli ultimi anni l'Africa e il Medioriente hanno visto una crescente competizione geopolitica tra gli stati della regione e le potenze mondiali, accompagnata da crisi, conflitti e instabilità. L'Italia tradizionalmente chiede alla NATO di fare di più per la stabilità e sicurezza del Mediterraneo allargato. Il quadro regionale, le potenzialità e o limiti dell'Alleanza atlantica nell'approcciarsi al suo vicinato meridionale sono discussi in questo podcast da Andrea Dessì (Responsabile del programma Politica estera dell'Italia; direttore della collana "IAI Commentaries"), Alessia Melcangi (Non-resident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East) e Alessandro Marrone responsabile del programma Difesa dello IAI.

0:00 Intro 2:12 1999-2000 8:37 Post-War Sovereignty 18:03 Certainty 27:19 The Wider Story 40:10 Memories of My Father We're with Amb. Frederic C. Hof for Episode 254 of The Beirut Banyan. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/Yt93xZ3KML0 We discuss his recent Newlines Magazine piece: 'Assad: The Shebaa Farms Are Syrian, Whatever Hezbollah Claims' and revisit previous US efforts at securing a peace deal between Syria and Israel. Our conversation includes Lebanon's position during these talks, and why post-civil war sovereignty never in fact took hold. We also reflect on Amb. Hof's memories of my father while he was mediating between Lebanon and Israel over offshore oil reserves. Ambassador Frederic C. Hof is Diplomat in Residence at Bard College and Former Director and Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. He was also Former US Special Envoy to Syria. The article referenced in this episode is accessible below: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/assad-the-shebaa-farms-are-syrian-whatever-hezbollah-claims/ Additional career info below as per Bard College's bio: Hof was previously the special coordinator for regional affairs in the US Department of State's Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, where he advised Special Envoy George Mitchell on the full range of Arab-Israeli peace issues falling under his purview and focusing on Syria-Israel and Israel-Lebanon matters. He joined the State Department in 2009 after serving as the president and CEO of AALC, an international business consulting and project finance firm formerly known as Armitage Associates LC. A graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Hof began his professional career as an Army officer. He is a Vietnam veteran and served as a US Army Middle East Foreign Area Officer, studying Arabic at the Foreign Service Institute in Tunisia and receiving a master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School. He served as US Army attaché in Beirut, Lebanon and later in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as director for Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestinian Affairs. He has written extensively on the Middle East and diplomacy. His awards include the Purple Heart, the Department of State Superior Honor Award, the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, and the Defense Superior Service Medal. Help support The Beirut Banyan by contributing via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/walkbeirut Or donating through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/thebeirutbanyan Subscribe to our podcast from your preferred platform. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter: @thebeirutbanyan And check out our website: www.beirutbanyan.com Music by Marc Codsi. Animation & illustration by Sana Chaaban.

John P. DeBlasio is the Chairman of DT Global and the DT Institute, Founder and Executive Director of the Global Peace and Development (GPD) Charitable Trust, and Managing Director of Bootstrap Capital. John is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Illinois Joining Forces Foundation, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, the Social Science Foundation (Korbel School of International Affairs at Denver University),Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International (NPHI), and The Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, and MVP Vets. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndeblasiogpd/

Michele Dunne is the director and a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East. She was the founding director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council from 2011 to 2013 and was a senior associate and editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2006 to 2011. Dunne was a Middle East specialist at the U.S. Department of State from 1986 to 2003, where she served in assignments that included the National Security Council, the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, the U.S. embassy in Cairo, the U.S. consulate general in Jerusalem, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. She also served as a visiting professor of Arabic language and Arab studies at Georgetown from 2003 to 2006.

In this episode, BCARS Director, Denis Sullivan, discusses the recent carnage in Eastern Ghouta and Syria’s geopolitical past, present, and future with Adham Sahloul. Adham is a Master’s candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a former Research Associate at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, and previously served as an Advocacy Officer for the Syrian American Medical Society. This sweeping conversation explores the recent crisis in Eastern Ghouta, and looks beyond Syria to examine Europe’s reaction to the Syrian war, the role of various non-state actors in the conflict, and possible humanitarian and political action that could be taken to move forward.

Nabeel Rajab, a human rights activist has been jailed for two years for criticizing the Bahraini government. Is the Gulf nation targeting dissenters? To discuss this, we have Mohammed Khalid Alyahya he's a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. And from London, Ahmed Alwadaei, he is the head of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD).

On this episode of Deeply Talks, we take a closer look at some of the crucial issues we'll dig into in 2018, including reconciliation and de-escalation, development and reconstruction, and continued military conflicts across the country. Alessandria Masi, Syria Deeply’s managing editor, and Hashem Osseiran, deputy managing editor speak with Faysal Itani, Resident Senior Fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East of the Atlantic Council. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, we take a closer look at some of the crucial issues we'll dig into in 2018, including reconciliation and de-escalation, development and reconstruction, and continued military conflicts across the country. Alessandria Masi, Syria Deeply’s managing editor, and Hashem Osseiran, deputy managing editor speak with Faysal Itani, Resident Senior Fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East of the Atlantic Council. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Francine Lacqua sits down for a conversation with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross following reports of Russia linked investments. Then, Michael McKee discusses NY Fed President William Dudley's recent retirement announcement. Prior to that, Jonathan Golub, Credit Suisse Securities' chief U.S. equity strategist, says the markets are perceiving Jay Powell as a continued Janet Yellen governance. Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, says the Republican tax bill's proposed 20 percent corporate tax rate won't survive. Finally, Mohammed Alyahya, a nonresident fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, says the issue of a Saudi corruption 'Band-Aid' is being torn off but perhaps may lead to uncertainty. 

Francine Lacqua sits down for a conversation with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross following reports of Russia linked investments. Then, Michael McKee discusses NY Fed President William Dudley's recent retirement announcement. Prior to that, Jonathan Golub, Credit Suisse Securities' chief U.S. equity strategist, says the markets are perceiving Jay Powell as a continued Janet Yellen governance. Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, says the Republican tax bill's proposed 20 percent corporate tax rate won't survive. Finally, Mohammed Alyahya, a nonresident fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, says the issue of a Saudi corruption 'Band-Aid' is being torn off but perhaps may lead to uncertainty.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The Future of the "Islamic State" Provinces and Affiliates: Decline or Continued Impact after the Fall of the "Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria? ​ Conference at the American University of Beirut Organized by AUB's Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Panel 3: IS Footprint in Northern Africa Chair: Dr. Canan Atilgan, Head of KAS Regional Programme Political Dialog and Regional Integration South Mediterranean (PolDiMed), Tunis The Wilayat Sinai in Egypt Jasmine El-Gamal, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council, Washington D.C. The IS Libya Province Mohamed Eljarh, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council, Washington D.C.​ The Attractiveness of IS in Tunisia Dr. Emna Ben Arab, Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies, Tunis

Join Dr. Carlos and Dr. Amirkizi as they discuss the situation in Turkey with Foreign Policy Expert Aaron Stein from the Atlantic Council and Iraq & Syria with Former CIA operative Bob Daugherty and VP of Adriden Global.Aaron Stein is a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. His research interests include US-Turkey relations, Turkish foreign policy, the Syrian conflict, nonproliferation, and the Iranian nuclear program. Dr. Stein was previously a doctoral fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, an associate fellow for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and a researcher with the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM). He also worked as a consultant for the International Crisis Group in Istanbul and has published articles and reports on Turkey's nuclear capabilities and Turkish elections.26 year former CIA operative Bob Dougherty is currently Executive Vice-President of Adriden Global Incorporated, a Los Angeles-based Intelligence, Security and Investigations company that provides Intelligence based Risk Mitigation consulting service

Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the United States, joins the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative for a discussion on French leadership in a Post-Brexit Europe. Following the Ambassador’s remarks, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Jeremie Gallon engages Ambassador Frederic Hof, Director of the Council’s Rafik Hariri Center on the Middle East; Ms. Laure Mandeville, Atlantic … Continue reading Ambassador of France to the United States Gérard Araud on French Leadership in a Post-Brexit Europe →

After twenty months of negotiations, a deal has been reached over Iran’s nuclear program. While the details of the deal have finally been made public, many questions remain. Atlantic Council Senior Fellows Matthew Kroenig and Barbara Slavin have a discussion on what comes next after the agreement, moderated by Director of the Rafik Hariri Center … Continue reading What’s next after the Iran deal? →

With the stability of Egypt remaining very much in doubt, the McCain Institute hosts “Egypt: Is the Military the Answer?” a panel to debate the role of the military in crafting a long-term and viable political future for the country. The debate features Jackson Diehl, Deputy Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Post; Michele Dunne, Vice President and Director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East; William Kristol, founder of The Weekly Standard; and Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS; Fox News Channel political analyst Juan Williams moderates. This event originally took place on September 24th, 2013 in Washington, DC.