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Monday, July 6, 2009
 
 
EVENTS
AEI Series: Dissent and Reform in the Arab World
Empowering Democrats
Date: Friday, March 31, 2006
Time: 9:00 AM — 12:30 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

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Rather than impose democracy on the Arab world, the United States seeks to support the building blocks for political and economic reform that already exist throughout the region. But as the first installment in AEI’s Dissent and Reform in the Arab World conference series has shown, the brave and bright reformers at the heart of democratic change have little political space with which to work and grow.

 

On January 13, participants from Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen detailed the extensive repressive measures used to stifle democracy in their countries, and offered concrete suggestions for reform. Please join AEI on March 31 for the second installment of the Dissent and Reform series. Participants from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine will shine a spotlight on reform at home and support from abroad, addressing such challenges as a Hamas-elected government in Palestine, religious conflict in Iraq, and Hezbollah’s threat to Lebanon.

 

 
Agenda
8:45 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
 
 
 
 
9:00
Introduction:
Danielle Pletka, AEI
 
Opening Remarks:
Shafeeq Ghabra, Alghad Communication/Leadership and Policy Institute; founding president, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait
 
 
 
9:15
 
Panel I: Challenges to Reform in Syria and Lebanon
 
Panelists:
Ammar Abdulhamid, Dar Emar Publishing House, Syria
 
 
Hassan Mneimneh, Iraq Memory Foundation, Lebanon
 
 
Najat Sharafeddine, Future Television, Lebanon
 
 
Lokman Slim , Hayya Bina [Let’s Go!], Lebanon
 
Moderator:
Danielle Pletka, AEI
 
 
 
10:30
 
Panel II: Challenges to Reform in Iraq and Jordan
 
Panelists:
Sama Hadad, Iraqi Prospect Organization, Iraq
 
 
Jamil Nimri, Al Ghad, Jordan
 
Moderator:
Michael Rubin, AEI
 
 
 
11:30
 
Update from Yemen
 
Speaker:
Hafez al-Bukari, Yemen Polling Center, Yemen
11:40
Closing Remarks:
Nejib Chebbi, Progressive Democratic Party, Tunisia
 
 
 
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