THE BRIEFING ROOM
FROM THE MIDDLE EAST | ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST | BY AVI MELAMED
NEXT EPISODE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25
NEXT GUEST ON THE BRIEFING ROOM:
Fatima Abo Alasrar
Fatima Abo Alasrar is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. Before joining the institute, Alasrar was a senior analyst at the Arabia Foundation in Washington, DC, the MENA director for Cure Violence, a research associate at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, and an international policy fellow at the Open Society Foundation.
From 2006-12, she worked as an advisor for the Embassy of Yemen in Washington, DC. Earlier in her career, Alasrar served as a program officer for the Department for International Development in Yemen.
Alasrar holds an MA in public administration from Harvard University, an MA in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in architectural engineering from Sanaa University in Yemen.
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Ali Adeeb Alnaemi
Ali Adeeb Alnaemi has been serving as a clinical associate professor for Arabic and media at NYU since receiving his MA in journalism there in 2010. He worked for PBS and the BBC in Iraq after the American invasion in 2003. Then he joined The New York Times and became the news editor of its Baghdad bureau before coming to the U.S. as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He writes for several publications in Arabic and English and conducts research in Middle Eastern politics, media, and methods of teaching the Arabic language.
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Our Regional Guest Was Maihan Wali, Founder Of Women’s Empowerment Through Sport In Afghanistan And An Alumna Of The Inside The Middle East Intelligence Perspectives Program!
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Our Regional Guest Was Mohamed Abu Bakr, President, The African Middle Eastern Leadership Project (AMEL).
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Our Regional Guest Was Dalia Ziada, Founder And Director, Liberal Democracy Institute. Board Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee at Egypt's National Council for Women
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Our Regional Guest Was Ahmed Obaid Almansoori, Former Member Of The United Arab Emirates Federal National Council; Founder, Crossroad Of Civilizations Museum.
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Our Regional Guest Was Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Former Managing Editor At Beirut’s The Daily Star. Reporting From War Zones In Lebanon And Iraq. Former Head Of The Washington Bureau Of Kuwaiti Daily Alrai. Hussain Is Currently A Research Fellow At The Foundation For Defense Of Democracies.
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In March our regional guest will be Hayvi Bouzo, a Syrian broadcast journalist with over 12 years of experience as a Bureau Chief, T.V. host, blogger, and commentator, and the co-founded Yalla, a fun, fast-paced, Arab-language show about the people who are building the future of the Middle East.
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