Anthony Shadid
He is the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. Since 9/11, he has reported from most of the countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank.
Azadeh Moaveni
In suburban America, she lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But ...
Rami George Khouri
Khouri knows the Middle East like few other journalists. As the Editor-at-Large of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, he reports from ground zero of the conflict as it unfolds. A Palestinian-Jordanian, educated in both the Middle East and the US, he is a widely respected international political columnist. He ...
Roya Hakakian
A celebrated poet and filmmaker, Hakakian’s recent film, Armed and Innocent, takes a close look at the involvement of underage children in wars around the world. Speaking on the Middle East and the importance of human rights, Hakakian is passionate about raising awareness of current happenings that many either ...
John Zogby
Chairman of the Board and Chief Insights Officer of IBOPE Zogby International (IZI) and author of The Way We’ll Be, John Zogby remains by all accounts the hottest and most accurate pollster and trendspotter in the United States today. No one can tell you more about what’s happening—from politics to social ...
Jared Cohen
Political transcendent Jared Cohen was originally brought in by Condoleezza Rice as the youngest member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, where he continued to serve under Secretary Hillary Clinton. In this capacity, the technology and Middle East specialist focused on such issues as ...
Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University. Khalidi is past President of the Middle East Studies Association, and is President of the American Committee on Jerusalem, and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.Khalidi has written numerous books including The Iron Cage: The Story ...
Jehane Noujaim
Noujaim's controversial documentary Control Room, about the Arabic-language cable news station Al Jazeera, called into question the prevailing images and positions offered up by the US news media about the war in Iraq. The Los Angeles Times said Control Room gives us a "glimpse of a world where ...
Munir Akram
Following a long and distinguished diplomatic career as the former Permanent Representative to the United Nations from Pakistan, Ambassador Munir Akram is now ready to step out from behind the diplomatic curtain and tell what he knows and offer his perspective on what the goals of the United States should be in Pakistan ...
Hussein Hassouna
Having been involved in countless diplomatic negotiations, and contributed to the delegation that led to the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, there are no other speakers available today who can address issues of the Middle East with the same insight, experience, and knowledge as Ambassador Hassouna.
Zainab Al-Suwaij
She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC), a nonprofit established in the wake of the September 11 attacks to build interfaith understanding; mobilize a moderate voice in the American Muslim community; and promote civil rights in the Muslim world.
Sarwar A. Kashmeri
An Indian Muslim childhood, Jesuit schools and universities, and a perpetual inquisitiveness power this American businessman, author and foreign policy speaker's observations. Host of the Foreign Policy Association's Global Currents podcasts, Kashmeri’s specialty is the integration of globalization, business, and ...
Robin Wright
An accomplished journalist foreign affairs speaker, Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic ...
Jytte Klausen
Jytte Klausen is a Professor of Comparative Politics and author of The Cartoons That Shook the World. In her book Klausen examines the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and the worldwide protests that followed their publication. She is an expert keynote speaker on Middle Eastern culture and Islam, and ...
Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz is a former member of the Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir, and the co-founder and executive director of Quilliam, the world's first counter-extremism think tank. He is also the co-founder of Khudi, a counter-extremism social movement working towards the promotion of social democratic change in Pakistan.
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