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November 1, 2008
FPRI Senior Fellow S. Abdallah Schleifer will participate in a panel discussion, “Changing Course and A Common Word: Two Important Initiatives for Bridging with the Muslim World,” to be held 2 – 3 PM Monday, Nov. 10. The discussion is sponsored by the Middle East Institute; other panelists include Thomas Dine and Robert Fersh. Thomas Dine is Principal, The Dine Group, and was Executive Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Robert Fersh is U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Co-Director and Executive Director, Search for Common Ground-USA, Washington, DC. Location: Middle East Institute, Boardman Room, 1761 N Street NW, Washington DC 20036. RSVP rsvp@mideasti.org; state your name and affiliation.
October 27, 2008
FPRI Senior Fellow Rens Lee will be a short-term fellow at the Kennan Institute starting January 2009, working on the project “Evaluating U.S.-Russian Nuclear Security Cooperation.” Dr. Lee’s short piece, “Engaging Cuba,” appears in the Nov./Dec. issue of Foreign Affairs.
October 7, 2008
FPRI is pleased to report that its Senior Fellow Edward Turzanski has been appointed to a new task force created by Mayor Michael Nutter to evaluate city ethics policies and recommend fixes to Philadelphia's five-year-old campaign-finance law. The panel will be chaired by former federal prosecutor Michael Schwartz, now with the Pepper Hamilton law firm. Other task force members are: Nolan Atkinson of the Duane Morris law firm; Stephanos Bibas of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Heidi Gold of Ross Associates; Brian McCormick of the Sheller law firm; Elizabeth McElroy, political director of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO; Al Mezzaroba, former CEO of the Convention Center; and Stephanie Resnick of the Fox Rothschild law firm..
May 20, 2008
On May 8–9, FPRI hosted the 8th Transatlantic Editors Roundtable, “Reviving Transatlantic Cooperation: A Roundtable on Terrorism, International Order, and Global Challenges.” These roundtables are held biannually and include transatlantic foreign affairs journal editors. FPRI co-sponsored the event with the Center for Applied Policy Research in Munich; the German Marshall Fund and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania supported the event. For a conference report, agenda, and list of participants, see www.cap- lmu.de/transatlantic/topics/philadelphia.php.
February 12, 2008
FPRI President Harvey Sicherman and Martin Indyk, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, were invited to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy to address a special policy forum on February 8, 2008, on "The Final Year: End-of-Term Presidents and the Middle East." Audio and video of that forum are available at http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=387.
February 4, 2008
The January 31 issue of the Economist includes a review of FPRI Senior Fellow Marc Sageman’s Leaderless Jihad (University of Pennsylvania Press, Dec. 2007), available online at http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10601243.
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On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.
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Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami
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Christopher Swift
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The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
Peter Bergen
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