Speaking in Maine

Speaking in Maine takes us next to Northport and the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations for a talk by New York Times journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith, “Reclaiming the American Dream.” For more on Smith and the forum, click here .

Speaking in Maine takes us next to a recent presentation of the World Affairs Council of Maine. The speaker is Ribal al-Assad, founder and director of the Organization for Freedom and Democracy in Syria. His talk is titled “Syria, the Middle East, and the New Cold War: How Three Tiers of Conflict Created an Apocalypse.” Introducing the speaker is Amy Holland, executive director of the World Affairs Council.

Speaking in Maine takes us next to Portland and the University of Maine School of Law for a talk by Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda of Zimbabwe on “Overcoming Food Insecurity: Ideas and Inspiration from Zimbabwe to Maine.” For more on Sibanda and the talk, click here .

Speaking in Maine takes us next to Portland for a panel discussion on “Abortion Rights Today” in Maine presented by Maine Jewish Film Festival, the University of Maine School of Law and Justice for Women. For more on the discussion and festival, click here .

Speaking in Maine takes us next to Northport and the Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations. The speaker is Andrew Cockburn , Washington Editor for Harper’s Magazine, speaking on how the U.S. came to adopt a strategy of assassination, and why it failed. For more about Cockburn and the Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations, click here .

All this week Speaking in Maine features highlights of the 2016 Camden Conference. The Camden Conference was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. The focus of the conference this year was “The New Africa.” Today’s speaker is Mr. Kingsley Moghalu, professor of practice in international business and public policy and senior fellow in the Council on Emerging Market Enterprises at The Fletcher School of

All this week Speaking in Maine features highlights of the 2016 Camden Conference. The Camden Conference was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. The focus of the conference this year was “The New Africa.” Today’s speaker, Ms. Jennifer Cooke, is director of the CSIS Africa Program, which she joined in 2000. The program provides balanced and forward-looking analysis of political and economic dynamics

All this week Speaking in Maine features highlights of the 2016 Camden Conference. The Camden Conference was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. The focus of the conference this year was “The New Africa.” Today’s speaker is Ms. Kah Walla. She’s one of a new generation of African leaders: an entrepreneur, and a grassroots activist in Cameroon. In 2011 she was a candidate for president of Cameroon,

All this week Speaking in Maine features highlights of the 2016 Camden Conference. The Camden Conference was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. The focus of the conference this year was “The New Africa.” Today’s speaker is Mr. Sangu Delle. Born in Ghana, where his childhood home was a refuge for victims of torture and violence from neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. Delle graduated from Harvard in

All this week Speaking in Maine features highlights of the 2016 Camden Conference. The Camden Conference was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. The focus of the conference this year was “The New Africa.” Today we hear from the keynote speaker of the conference, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, West Africa correspondent for National Public Radio News, based in Dakar, Senegal. For more on Quist-Arcton or the 2016