Trajectories of U.S. Middle East Policy w/ Mouin Rabbani & Jamil Mouawad

U.S. in the Middle East Project - Session 2 Trajectories of U.S. Middle East Policy Continuity and Change Featuring: Mouin Rabbani Jamil Mouawad Moderated by: Bassam Haddad Omar Dahi Tuesday, 12 November 2024 1:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM Gaza Presented by Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown - Qatar, and Security in Context. Co-Sponsored by Gaza in Context Project This panel will address continuities and anticipated change in U.S.-Middle East policy under the second Trump administration. What will this mean for the region and what for the United States? Our speakers will also provide an overview of how U.S. Foreign Policy is perceived from both Palestine and Lebanon over the past two decades, and how politicians and parties engage with it. Featuring Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya. Jamil Mouawad is Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy at the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut - AUB. He is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies. Bassam Haddad (Moderator) is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Calamity: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). Omar S. Dahi (Moderator) is a co-editor at Jadaliyya. He is a Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs. He has published in academic outlets such as the Journal of Development Economics and Applied Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Political Geography, Middle East Report, Forced Migration Review, and Critical Studies on Security. His last book was South-South Trade and Finance in the 21st Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence (co-authored with Firat Demir). Dahi serves as an associate editor of the Review of Social Economy and is a founding member of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). Dahi has served as a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of West Asia's National Agenda for the Future of Syria program. Jadaliyya Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Jadaliyya?sub_confirmation=1 http://instagram.com/jadaliyya http://twitter.com/jadaliyya http://jadaliyya.com #Jadaliyya