Showing posts with label Jordan. Show all posts
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Jul 23, 2009

Clashing Visions and Competing Interests: American, Israeli and Arab Approaches to Peace by Amjad Atallah, Daniel Levy and Michael C. Hudson (16 July 2009)

A panel discussion featuring:

Mr. Amjad Atallah, Co-Director
Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation

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Mr. Daniel Levy, Co-Director and Senior Fellow
Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation


Dr. Michael C. Hudson, Director and Professor
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University
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16 July 2009
The Palestine Center

This panel addressed similarities and differences in the approaches of the United States, Israel and the Arabs towards an end of conflict, whether coordination is possible, and what distinct roles each nation or group of nations should have in the peace process.

Amjad Atallah
Co-Director, Middle Task East Force, New America Foundation
Mr. Atallah is the co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation.

Prior to working at the New America Foundation, he headed the Strategic Assessments Initiative, an organization committed to providing legal and policy assistance to parties in conflict and post-conflict situations. He also advised the Palestinian negotiating team in peace negotiations with Israel on the issues of international borders, security and constitutional issues.

Daniel Levy
Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Middle East Task Force, New America Foundation

In addition to his work at the New America Foundation, Mr. Levy is a senior fellow and director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation. He was a member of the Israeli delegation to the Taba negotiations with the Palestinians in January 2001 and previously served on the Israeli negotiating team to the "Oslo B" Agreement from May to September 1995, under the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Michael C. Hudson
Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Professor of International
Relations, Georgetown University

Michael C. Hudson is the Seif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies in the Walsh School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University. He is regularly interviewed about Middle East issues in the news media, including the BBC, Arabic satellite channels and major newspapers. Among Dr. Hudson's publications are Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy and The Palestinians: New Directions.

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Apr 3, 2009

Helena Cobban: Shifting Dimensions of the Palestinian Question



Shifting Dimensions of the Palestinian Question: Conclusions from a Reporting Trip

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Helena Cobban
Writer and Researcher
Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Back from a month-long reporting trip to the Middle East that took her to Egypt, Jordan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, Helena Cobban shares her findings and conclusions based on first-hand accounts of developments on the ground. During the trip, Cobban interviewed more than 45 people ranging from Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to several Hamas lawmakers and senior officials with aid agencies working in the Gaza Strip.

Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher who has worked on Palestinian issues since 1974. She worked for The Christian Science Monitor for many years, first as a reporter and later as a columnist. Over the past decade, Ms. Cobban has written extensively in The Boston Review on her long-maintained blog, 'Just World News', and elsewhere on developments in Israel and Palestine.
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