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SUMMARY:Is the Midddle East at an Inflection Point? with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Kurtzer is 45th annual Leo Camp Memorial Lecturer.\nKurtzer joined the United States Department of State and was serving as a junior officer at the American Embassy in Cairo when Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. He served in Israel between the years of 1982 and 1986\, then became Deputy Director of the State Department’s Egypt desk in Washington\, D.C. He later served on the Policy Planning Staff\, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs\, and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. When asked why he was drawn to the Middle East\, he later replied: “The work never seems to be finished in this region. It is not a place where tuxedos and cocktail parties characterize diplomacy.”\nKurtzer joined the staff of Secretary of State James Baker. He helped write Baker’s noteworthy speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee in May 1989. The speech was originally drafted by Harvey Sicherman\, who used uncontroversial pro-Israel language in his text. Kurtzer’s revisions included an attention-getting line that encouraged Israel and its supporters to abandon the Greater Israel idea. According to Aaron David Miller\, he and Kurtzer wrote short memos for Baker on issues at hand\, rather than longer\, strategic papers.\nKurtzer was also part of the Clinton administration’s team of advisers on the Arab–Israeli peace process. According to Miller\, Kurtzer left in 1994 because he “felt shut out by” the Special Middle East Envoy\, Dennis Ross.\nIn 2006\, he retired from the State Department and the U.S. Foreign Service with the rank of Career-Minister and assumed a chair in Middle East policy studies at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He co-chaired\, with Scott Lasensky\, the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking\, a project supported by the United States Institute of Peace. They published their recommendations in a 2008 book. \nKurtzer is the co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East; co-author of The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab Israeli Peace\, 1989–2011; and editor of Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He is also a frequent contributor of academic articles and opinion pieces. \nThis is a free event and open to the public.
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/is-the-midddle-east-at-an-inflection-point-with-ambassador-daniel-kurtzer/
LOCATION:Albright College\, McMillan Student Center South Lounge\, 13th and Bern Streets\, Reading\, PA\, 19612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Russia-Ukraine: Negotiated Settlement of Continued War with Ambassador Steven Pifer
DESCRIPTION:Steven Karl Pifer (born 1953) is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe as well as the director of Brookings’ Arms Control Initiative. He was formerly senior adviser with the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington\, D.C.\, and the third United States Ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to 2000. \nHe served at the United States Embassies in Warsaw\, London and Moscow\, and as advisor on the U.S. delegation to the negotiations on intermediate-range nuclear forces in Geneva. \nFrom 1978 to 2004 he was a foreign service officer with the US Dept. of State. From 1996 to 1997\, he served special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia\, Ukraine and Eurasia on the National Security Council. From 1998 to 2000\, he served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. From 2001 to 2004\, he served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs\, with responsibility for Russia and Ukraine. \nThis webinar event will he held on zoom. \nClick here to register for this webinar now
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/ukraine-with-ambassador-steven-pifer/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Saudi Arabian Vision and the Future of Saudi/U.S. Relations with Fahad Nazer
DESCRIPTION:Fahad Nazer is the official spokesperson for the Embassy of Saudi Arabia to the United States. He was\nappointed to this role on January 18\, 2019. Prior to this appointment\, Nazer was a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and served as an International Fellow at the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations. Additionally. He was also a columnist for the daily newspaper Arab News. His publications have appeared in Foreign Affairs\, The New York Times\, CNN\, Foreign Policy\, YaleGlobal Online\, The National Interest\, and Newsweek. Nazer earned his BA in political science from New York University and an M.A in political science from Saint John’s University in New York City. He has also completed the credit and examination requirements of the PhD program in political science at the Catholic University of America in Washington. \nClick here to register for this webinar now \n  \n 
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/the-saudi-arabian-vision-and-the-future-of-saudi-u-s-relations-with-fahad-nazer/
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