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The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Will get to the subject eventually, but the point of the book entitled transeven and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply of the drivers entitled seven pillars. From yemen to syria iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe t...

[applause] good evening everybody, i am bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of everybody here, welcome and thank you for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store Rashid Khalidi who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years and before that taught at the university of chicago for a decade and ahalf. He is also editor of the journal of palestine studies, the author of sevenprevious books on the middle east. His newest work , the ...

Welcome. I have written fiction about president ial politics and the media and i wish i knew these four giant when i was doing research for the novel. We could not have a better panel for the topic today. What do you feel is the role in this era of journalism and specific to the times. The la times, are using a Division Within your staff . I think there are several components to that. August, 19 episode. One of which was with the word, racism. Whether that was a fair label for the president or whether as i think an older generation of editors that went to question intent. Given the president s...

Welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually, but the book entitled seven pillars and the discussion is to look more broadly and deeply at the drivers of instability of the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil if we cant become a land of before and tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning intentions into the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure....

Our gathering today is ambassadors and representatives including the ambassador from tunisia and iraq, jordan, morocco, iraq, jordan, morocco, turkey, a , zi mbabwe, slovenia, and ecuador. From the four corners we come to you. And here at the atlantic council. Into welcome Us Government officials to have a question and answer session this richness is enhanced by the superlative interviewer. Tom friedman needs no introduction and with Foreign Affairs in the New York Times and thrice won the pulitzer prize. To be focused on the middle east and one of which is a favorite of jerusalem is the textb...