"Keynote Remarks from Mr. Joey Hood"

29th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference: "The Next U.S. Presidency: Implications for the U.S.-Arab Relationship"

Organized by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations

18 November 2020

*Virtual Conference*

Introduction:

> Dr. John Duke Anthony - National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Founding President and Chief Executive Officer; Author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum; Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia; and The United Arab Emirates: Dynamics of State Formation.

Speaker:

> Mr. Joey Hood - U.S. Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary; former U.S. Department of State Deputy Chief of Mission in Iraq and in Kuwait.

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