Tentative Program - Tunisia's and Egypt's Transitions to Democracy - April 15, 2011‏

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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY
 
12th Annual Conference
 
 
 

Tunisia's and Egypt's Transitions to Democracy

 

What is the impact on the Arab World? What Lessons can we learn?

 
  
Friday, April 15, 2011
The Jack Morton Auditorium
Media & Public Affairs Building
805 21st Street, NW
George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
 

 
 

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TENTATIVE PROGRAM


 
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.       Registration                    
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.       Welcoming Remarks        
 
·       Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, Chair, Program Committee
·       Dr. Radwan Masmoudi, CSID President
 
 
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.                  Panel 1
 

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The "Jasmine Revolution" and Transition to Democracy in Tunisia: Why and How?  

 
·       His Excellency Mohamed Salah Tekaya, Ambassador of Tunisia

·       Samir Dilou, Tunisian Lawyer and Member of al-Nahda Party

·       Mondher Ben Ayed, Tunisian Businessman

·       Radwan Masmoudi, President, Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy
 
 
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.         Coffee Break
 
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.         Panel 2       
 
 

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The Revolution and Transition to Democracy in Egypt: Why and How?

Chair: Abdallah Schleifer
 

 
·       Shadi Hamid, Research Director, Brookings Doha Center

·       Nathan J. Brown, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·       Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco

·       Maher Hathout, Senior Advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council

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12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.         Break for Lunch & Friday Prayers
 

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2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.            Panel 3       
                   
 

The impact of the Revolutions on the Arab World - Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain. 

     
·       Abdallah Schleifer, The American University in Cairo

·       Radwan Ziadeh, Syrian Human Rights Activist

·       Amina Rasul-Bernardo, The Philippines Council for Islam and Democracy

·       Mona Yacoubian, United States Institute of Peace

 
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.      Coffee Break
 
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.      Panel 4                  

 

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U.S. Foreign Policy and Democracy Assistance in the Middle East after the Revolutions
 
    
·       Tamara Cofman Wittes, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
                                              affairs

·       Roland Rich, Executive Head, United Nations Democracy Fund

·       Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy

·       Emad El-Din Shahin, University of Notre Dame

·       Marc Lynch, George Washington University

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5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.         Concluding Remarks
 

 

Building Real and Genuine Democracies in the Middle East & North Africa
 
  Michael A. McFaul  (invited)
National Security Council

Zalman Khalilzad (invited)
Former Representative of the United States to the United Nations

  Larry Diamond (invited)
Stanford University


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