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


 
·       Mustapha Khalfi, Justice & Development Party, Morocco

·       Abderrazak Makri, Movement for the Society of Peace, Algeria

·       Salah Ali Abdulrahman, Islah Movement, Bahrain

·       Ruhail Gharaibeh, Islamic Action Front, Jordan
 
 
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.         Coffee Break
 
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.         Parallel Session #1        
 

 
·  Views of the U.S. in Post-Jihadist Thought - Omar Ashour, University of Exeter
 
·  Muslim Public Views of the U.S. - Steven Kull, Worldpublicopinion.org
 
·  A Nigerian Perspective on the Cairo Speech - Chloe Berwind-Dart, Cherish Foundation
 
·  Public Diplomacy in the Age of Obama - Kristin Lord, Center for a New American Security
 
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.           Parallel Session #2        
 
 
 
·  The Obama Administration's Outreach to Islamic Human Rights  - Satoshi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo
 
·   Arab Youth Development in U.S.-Muslim Engagement  - Oliver Wilcox & Chris Carneal, University of Virginia
 
·   Political Islam and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Obama Era  - Halim Rane, Griffith University
 
·   Constructing Political Islam as the New Other  - Corinna Mullin, School of Oriental & African Studies
 
 
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.         Keynote Luncheon
 
 
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.            Plenary Session        
                   
 
·  Farah Pandith - Special Representative to Muslim Communities, Department of State
·  Reza Aslan - University of California, Riverside
·  Marc Lynch - George Washington University
·  Emile Nakhleh - Independent scholar
·  Brian Katulis - The Center for American Progress
 
 
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.      Coffee Break
 
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.      Parallel Session #3        
                  


 
 
·   Human Rights, Democracy, and the future of the Middle East - Nabila Hamza, Foundation for the Future, Amman, Jordan
 
·   The U.S. Policy toward Egypt since Obama's Inauguration: Assessment of the Past Year and Recommendations for the Future  - Sarah Khorshid, IslamOnline.net
 
·   The U.S. Image among Arab's New Generation: Finding and Recommendations from Experimental Research - Moataz A. Fattah, Cairo University & Central Michigan University
 
·    Back to the Spirit of the Cairo Speech: From Marshall Plan to Obama Plan - Alaya Allani, University of Tunis
 
·    Democracy Development Between High Aspiration and Low Implementation  - Fethi Touzri, Independent candidate for Tunisian parliament
 

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.        Parallel Session #4        
                  

 
 
·   Evaluating Obama's Contributions to Iran's Democratic Opposition - Laila Tarraghi, University of Arkansas
 
·   The Role of the U.S. in Encouraging Pro-Democracy Movements  - Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco
 
·   Democracy Promotion: The Missing Dimension of Counter-Extremism - Lars Berger, University of Salford
 
·   Applying Sustainable Democracy Promotion to the Muslim World - Eric Patterson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
 

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