Agenda

Welcoming remarks

 

 

Martin S. Indyk
Executive Vice President, The Brookings Institution


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Keynote

 

 

H.E. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Qatar

 

Remarks

 

 

H.E. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
High Representative for United Nations Alliance of Civilizations

 

Plenary Session I: Stabilization in the MENA region

 

 

Abdallah Al Dardari
Senior Adviser on Reconstruction, Office of the Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region -World Bank

 

 

Adama Dieng
United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide

 

 

Samar Haidar
Former Executive Director - Arab Human Rights Fund

 

 

Annika Söder
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs - Kingdom of Sweden

 

 

MODERATOR

Bruce Jones
Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy

 

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Plenary Session II: The future of pluralism, citizenship, and religion in the Middle East

 

 

Mustafa Akyol
Senior Visiting Fellow, Freedom Project - Wellesley College

 

 

Shadi Hamid
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, U.S. Relations with the Islamic World

 

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Mehrezia Labidi-Maïza
Member, Executive Board - Ennahda Party

 

 

Bassem Youssef
Former Host - "AlBernameg"

 

 

MODERATOR

Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani
National Correspondent - Vice News Tonight

Plenary Session III: Refugees and cities

 

 

Alex Aleinikoff
Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility - The New School

 

 

Ann-Margarethe Livh
Vice Mayor - City of Stockholm

 

 

Lefteris Papagiannakis
Deputy Mayor - City of Athens

 

 

Marvin Rees
Mayor - City of Bristol

 

 

Wolfgang Schmidt
State Secretary - City of Hamburg

 

 

MODERATOR

Bruce Katz
Centennial Scholar - Centennial Scholar Initiative

 

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Plenary Session IV: Counterterrorism

 

 

John R. Allen
Chair, Security and Strategy Distinguished Fellow in Residence - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

 

 

Nelly Lahoud
Senior Fellow for Political Islamism - IISS-Middle East

 

 

Rym Momtaz
Producer - ABC News

 

 

George Selim
Senior Vice President for Programs - Anti-Defamation League

 

 

MODERATOR

Eric Schmitt
Senior Correspondent - The New York Times