U.S. in the Middle East Project - Session 2
Trajectories of U.S. Middle East Policy
Continuity and Change
Featuring:
Mouin Rabbani
Amal Saad
Jamil Mouawad
Moderated by:
Bassam Haddad
Omar Dahi
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
1:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM Gaza
Presented by Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown - Qatar, and Security in Context.
Co-Sponsored by Gaza in Context Project
This panel will address continuities and anticipated change in U.S.-Middle East policy under the second Trump administration. What will this mean for the region and what for the United States? Our speakers will also provide an overview of how U.S. Foreign Policy is perceived from both Palestine and Lebanon over the past two decades, and how politicians and parties engage with it.
Featuring
Amal Saad is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University. She specialzes in Hizbullah and its relations with the Resistance Axis. She has authored several works on Hizbullah including the book Hizbullah: Politics and Religion, Pluto Press (2002).
Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.
Jamil Mouawad is Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy at the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut - AUB. He is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies.
Bassam Haddad (Moderator) is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Calamity: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).