Global Issues
Middle East
Middle East:
Founder of the Arab American Institute
Speaker James Zogby is founder and president of Arab American Institute and hosts the award-winning Viewpoint with James Zogby.
Academy Award Nominated Director
Noujaim's controversial documentary Control Room, about the Arabic-language news station Al Jazeera, called into question the prevailing images and positions offered up by the US news media about the war in Iraq.
Award-Winning Journalist
Speaker Josh Rushing has gone from US Marine Corps Captain to military correspondent and analyst for Al Jazeera English to author of Mission Al Jazeera.
NYT Investigative Reporter, Host, The Coldest Case in Laramie Podcast & Author, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
In her hit podcast, The Coldest Case in Laramie, the first collaboration between Serial Productions and a reporter from The New York Times, Kim Barker opens the series by discussing the case that haunted her since childhood.
Hamas Whistleblower, Star of The Green Prince
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the bestselling author of The Son of Hamas, as well as the star of the film, The Green Prince, which chronicles his intense journey as a spy for the Israeli Shin Bet against Hamas.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT Columnist
How good do you really have to be, to be christened the reporter’s reporter…by other reporters? You have to be Nicholas Kristof – good.
Foreign & Security Policy Expert
The former president of the World Bank and former US Deputy Secretary of Defense of Policy, speaker Paul Wolfowitz is a crucial voice in foreign and security policy.
Chair of Arab Studies, University of Columbia
Rashid Khalidi is the Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia, the past President of the Middle East Studies Association, President of the American Committee on Jerusalem, and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.