CSID 11th Annual Conference

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U.S. Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Ronald Reagan Building Amphitheater
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004

Co-Sponsors:

The Muslim World Initiative
United States Institute of Peace

The Ali Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies
George Mason University

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
ISESCO

Final Program

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks

· Dr. Peter Mandaville, Chair, Program Committee
· Dr. Radwan Masmoudi, CSID President

9:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Panel 1 in Aphitheater

· Farah Pandith – Special Representative to Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of State

Respondents:
· Marc Lynch – George Washington University
· Emile Nakhleh – Independent scholar
· Daniel Brumberg– United States Institute of Peace

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Parallel Session #1 in Amphitheater

· Views of the U.S. in Post-Jihadist Thought – Omar Ashour, University of Exeter

· Muslim Public Views of the U.S. – Steven Kull, Worldpublicopinion.org

· A Nigerian Perspective on the Cairo Speech – Chloe Berwind-Dart, Cherish Foundation

· New Approaches to Public Diplomacy in the Muslim World – Kristin Lord, Center for a New American Security
11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Parallel Session #2 in Oceanic Suite

· The Obama Administration’s Outreach to Islamic Human Rights – Satoshi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo

· Arab Youth Development in U.S.-Muslim Engagement – Oliver Wilcox & Chris Carneal, University of Virginia

· Political Islam and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Obama Era – Halim Rane, Griffith University

· Constructing Political Islam as the New Other – Corinna Mullin, School of Oriental & African Studies

2:10 p.m. – 3:30 a.m. Plenary Session

· Mustapha Khalfi, Justice & Development Party, Morocco

· Zineddine Tebbal, Movement for the Society of Peace, Algeria

· Salah Ali Abdulrahman, Deputy Speaker, Islamic National Menber, Bahrain

· Respondent – Quinn Mecham, Professor, Middlebury College and George Washington University, and Franklin Fellow, Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m. Parallel Session #3 in Oceanic Suite

· Civil Society Organizations as Actors of Change in the MENA Region: Potentialities and Challenges – Nabila Hamza, Foundation for the Future, Amman, Jordan

· The U.S. Image among Arab’s New Generation: Finding and Recommendations from Experimental Research – Moataz A. Fattah, Cairo University & Central Michigan University

· Back to the Spirit of the Cairo Speech: From Marshall Plan to Obama Plan – Alaya Allani, University of Tunis

· Taliban’s Islamic State, Obama’s Olive Branch and Democracy in the Muslim World: An Examination of Governance in Contemporary Pakistan – Abdullah Al-Ahsan, International Islamic University, Malaysia

4:00 p.m. – 5:20 p.m. Parallel Session #4 in Amphitheater

· Evaluating Obama’s Contributions to Iran’s Democratic Opposition – Laila Tarraghi, University of Arkansas

· The Role of the U.S. in Encouraging Pro-Democracy Movements – Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco

· Applying Sustainable Democracy Promotion to the Muslim World – Eric Patterson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

· Challenges to Integrating Democracy Promotion in U.S. Policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan – Brian Katulis – The Center for American Progress

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Where & When
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Ronald Reagan Building Amphitheater
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004