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AIC
UPDATE - November
2006 | Vol. 3 | No. 52
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| News and Analysis |
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Summary: The “News and Analysis” highlights
developments and arguments relating to the recent
military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, the impending
UN Security Council’s sanctions on Iran, US approval
of sale of airplane parts to Iran; rewards given for
Holocaust Cartoon Exhibition in Tehran; speculation
about a possible Hezbollah coup in Lebanon,
contradictory positions of former President Khatami
regarding the US role in Iraq, security and intelligent
cooperation between Iran and Iraq, and the
upcoming elections in Iran.
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| Of Real and Manufactured Crisis: Iran in the Eye of the Storm - Faramarz Farbod |
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A popular joke in the United States of the late 1980s
depicted Iran as a country that had for long
generated substantial troubles for successive U.S.
administrations. A U.S. President, so the joke went,
had his State Department tasked with bringing him
the U.S. government file on Iran. The Department
was unable to find the Iran file under the letter “I.”
The President asked that the search be conducted
under the letter “P” for Persia, Iran’s pre-1933 name.
As the second search also failed, confusion set in the
White House whereupon an advisor suggested that
perhaps Iran had been filed under the letter “U,” to
which the President asked what it stood for. The
reply: Ulcers...
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| Islam and the West |
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The New Yorker Video
Islam and the West
Posted 10-10-2006
The second annual New Yorker Town Hall Meeting,
with Omar Ahmad, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mahmood
Mamdani, Azar Nafisi, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, and
Lawrence Wright. George Packer, moderator.
http://www.newyorker.com/festival/videos
/fevi_video1a
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| MEI Holds 60th Annual Conference |
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MEI Holds 60th Annual Conference on 'New
Approaches to Enduring Issues', Nov. 13; US
Secretary of Energy to Address
Conference
11/1/2006 10:01:00 AM
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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Middle East Institute, 202-785-5336 or
media@mideasti.org
News Advisory:
The Middle East Institute holds its 60th Anniversary
Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13-14,
at the National Press Club.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman will give
the keynote address at 9 a.m. Nov. 13. Karen Koning
AbuZayd, comissioner general of the UN Refugees
Relief Works Agency will address the conference
banquet at 7 p.m.
MEI's annual conference, "New Approaches to
Enduring Issues," offers a frank review of the threats
and challenges facing the region and takes a look at
some innovative ways to address them. Panels on
Nov. 13 and 14 include: Exiting Iraq; Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Regional Stability; Improving Relations
Between the International Community and Iran;
Engaging Political Islam; Making Peace in Sudan;
America's Partnership with the Gulf; and Israel's
Evolving Foreign Policy.
Participants in the annual conference include Akbar
Ahmed of American University; Hooshang
Amirahmadi
of Rutgers; Peter Bechtold, College of William & Mary;
Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations;
Maysam al-Faruqi, Georgetown University; Ret. LTG
Jay Garner; Trita Parsi, SAIS; David Satterfield,
Senior State Department Coordinator, Iraq; Adam
Shapiro, Darfur Diaries; Yoram Peri, Tel Aviv
University; John Prendergast, International Crisis
Group; Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan Regional
Government; and many others.
For more information on panels, speakers and press
coverage, please visit
http://www.mideasti.org/programs/programs
_event_details.php?Event ID=290
Admission to the conference is free for press.
Register online at
https://www.mideasti.org/catalog/index.php
?site=ac. or by e-mail to media@mideasti.org.
For more details, please call 202-785-5336 or e-mail
media@mideasti.org
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The Middle East Institute this year celebrates 60
years of promoting knowledge and understanding of
the Middle East and providing a forum for honest and
thoughtful discussion of critical issues pertaining to
the Middle East and US policy toward the region.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
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