Thursday, May 14, 2015
J.W. Marriott Washington DC 1331 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington DC 20004 EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS TODAY May 13 @ 4:00 pm.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks Asma Afsaruddin Chair of the Board of CSID
William Lawrence
Conference Co-Chair
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Panel 1
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Contested Legitimacy, Human Rights, and the Future of Democracy in Egypt
- Michele Dunne, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Shadi Hamid, Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- Ismail Alexandrani, Investigative Journalist and Visiting Arab Journalist, Woodrow Wilson Center
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10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee and Tea Break 11:00 - 12:00 a.m. Panel 2 ____________________________________________________________________
Democratic Prospects: The Case of Tunisia
- Radwan Masmoudi, CSID Founder and President
- Thomas DeGeorges, Independent Scholar and Former Director of the Center for Maghreb Study in Tunis (CEMAT)
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12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Keynote Luncheon ____________________________________________________________________
Introduction and Welcoming Remarks:
Radwan A. Masmoudi CSID President
The Future of Democracy in the
Middle East and North Africa
Maha Azzam
President, Egyptian Revolutionary Council
Founder and President, Al Ghad Party
Egypt
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1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Panel 3
Pathways to Democracy in the MENA Region, with a
focus on Syria, Libya, and Yemen
- Gerald Feierstein, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department
- Najib Ghadbian, Special Representative to the United States
- Jonathan Winer , U.S. Special Coordinator for Libya
- Stephen Seche, Executive Vice President, Arab Gulf States Institute of Washington
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3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee and Tea Break 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. Panel 4 ____________________________________________________________________
U.S. Policy Between Security, Stability and Democracy
- William Taylor, Vice President, United States Institute for Peace
- Stephen McInerney, Executive Director, The Project on Middle East Democracy
- Daniel Brumberg, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MA in Democracy and Governance, Georgetown University, and Special Advisor, U.S. Institute for Peace
- Emad Shahin, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
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4:45 - 5:00 Concluding Remarks
Rafik Abdessalem (by Skype)
Former Foreign Minister of Tunisia
William Lawrence
CSID Annual Conference Co-Chair
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Where & When
Thursday, May 14, 2015
J.W. Marriott Washington DC 1331 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington DC 20004
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