National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Program Audio

National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations programmatic alumni at NCUSAR's 2019 Ar-ab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. and H.E. Yousef Al Otaiba at NCUSAR's 2019 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

Mr. Thomas L. Friedman, Ms. Raghida Dergham, Ms. Kirsten Fontenrose, The Right Honourable Mona Makram-Ebeid, Mr. Richard Kaplan, and Ms. Paige Peterson at NCUSAR's 2019 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.

"The War of 2003 and its Unintended Consequences for Iraq, the Middle East, and the United States"

Featured Specialist:

> Dr. Zuhair Humadi, International Education Specialist; Former General Director, Iraqi Education Initiative.

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"Exploring the Iraq-United States Relationship"

Context Provider and Moderator:

> Dr. John Duke Anthony

Featured Specialists:

> His Excellency Dr. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to the United States of America.

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"Analysis of U.S. and GCC Tensions with Iran: Implications for Key American Policies"

Context Provider and Moderator:

> Dr. John Duke Anthony

Featured Specialists:

> Mr. Norman Roule, Former National Intelligence Manager for Iran; United Against a Nuclear Iran Senior Advisor.

> Ms. Kirsten Fontenrose, Former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Gulf Affairs; Sonoran Policy Group Vice President for Global Relations.

> Mr. Phillip Cornell, Atlantic Council Global Energy Center Nonresident Senior Fellow; Former Saudi Aramco Senior Corporate Planning Advisor; Former International Energy Agency Special Advisor.

> Mr. David Des Roches, Senior International Affairs Fellow, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; Associate Professor, Near East/South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, U.S. Department of Defense.

> Colonel (Ret.) Abbas K. Dahouk, Former U.S. Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Senior Military Advisor; Former Embassy of the U.S. in Saudi Arabia Defense and Army Attache.

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"Commemorating International Partnership: The National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial in Washington, D.C."

Context Provider and Moderator:

> Dr. John Duke Anthony

Featured Specialists:

> Ambassador (Ret.) Edward W. Gnehm Jr.

> General (Ret.) Chuck Horner

> Mr. Scott C. Stump

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"Yemen: How Near or Distant a Resolution to its Present Conflict?"

Context Provider and Moderator:

> Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; Member, U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy Subcommittee on Sanctions.

Specialists:

> H.E. Dr. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to the United States; Office of Yemen's President Chief of Staff; Yemen's National Dialogue Conference Secretary General.

> Mr. Timothy Pounds, U.S. Department of State Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs Director; former U.S. Embassy in Bahrain Deputy Chief of Mission.

> Dr. Stephen W. Day, Editor of "Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in Yemen's War" (early 2020) and Author of "Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union" (2012); Rollins College Adjunct Professor of International Affairs.

> Ms. Summer Nasser, Yemen Aid Chairperson; Speaker and analyst on Yemeni affairs.

> Colonel (Ret.) Abbas K. Dahouk, former U.S. Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Senior Military Advisor; former Embassy of the U.S. in Saudi Arabia Defense and Army Attaché.

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"Strategic Implications of Recent U.S. Decisions on Syria"

Context Provider and Moderator:

> Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations; Member, U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy Subcommittee on Sanctions.

Specialists:

> Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

> Mr. David Des Roches, Associate Professor at the National Defense University's Near East South Asia Center for Security Studies and a Senior International Affairs Fellow at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.

> Dr. Elias Samo, Adjunct Professor at American University's School of International Service and a Distinguished International Affairs Fellow at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.

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Dr. John Duke Anthony at NCUSAR's 2018 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference. Visit www.ncusar.org to learn more.