Us Middle East Project Inc

Programs: Critical analyses of u. S. /middle east policy in the region: the u. S. /middle east project (usmep) arranged numerous in-person briefings, brain-storming sessions and policy notes throughout the year for its board members and senior advisors as well as other relevant stakeholders including by leading government officials and middle east experts from various institutions in the u. S. And beyond. The purpose of these gatherings was to review u. S. -middle east policy and that of other actors and options for mitigating or advancing resolutions of crises and conflicts in each of the major areas of interest in the region, including: iran, iraq, israel, palestinian territories, syria, libya and egypt. Some of those meetings are listed below: briefing and policy discussion for board members and senior advisors held on october 25th and 26th, 2016 in london, uk: participants included: mina al-oraibi, editor in-chief, the national sherard cowper-coles, head of government affairs, hsbc holdings toby dodge, director, middle east centre, london school of economics bernardino len, former un envoy to libya and special eu representative to the mediterranean rula jebreal, journalist, foreign policy analyst and author bassma kodmani, executive director, ari daniel levy, president, u. S. /middle east project alia moubayed, director, geo-economics and strategy programme, international institute for strategic studies marwan muasher, former jordanian foreign minister thomas r. Pickering, vice chairman, hills & company henry siegman, president emeritus, u. S. /middle east project puneet talwar, former assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs pierre vimont, special envoy to the french minister of foreign affairs for the middle east peace initiative policy discussion for board members and senior advisors exploring ideas and options for the new u. S. Administration with regard to foreign policy directions in the middle east and the broader region. The meeting was held in new york city on november 15th, 2016. The usmep convened an informal dinner meeting for board members and guests with ahmad tibi, deputy speaker of the israeli knesset, on january 12th, 2017 in london, uk. Briefing and policy discussion for board members and senior advisors held on march 22nd and 23rd, 2017 in washington d. C. : participants included: jeremy ben ami, president, j street william j. Burns, president, carnegie endowment for international peace sir kim darroch, ambassador of the u. K. To the u. S. James f. Dobbins, senior fellow and distinguished chair in diplomacy and security, rand corporation lara friedman, president, foundation for middle east peace richard fontaine, president, center for a new american security (cnas) chuck hagel, former u. S. Secretary of defense efraim halevy, chairman, israel national center for jewish history lee h. Hamilton, director of the center on congress, indiana university stuart e. Jones, acting assistant secretary, bureau of near eastern affairs daniel c. Kurtzer, former u. S. Ambassador to israel and egypt daniel levy, president, u. S. /middle east project robert malley, former special assistant to the president and white house coordinator for the middle east, north africa, and the gulf region thomas r. Pickering, vice chairman, hills & company henry siegman, president emeritus, u. S. /middle east project marcelle wahba, president, arab gulf states institute in washington (agsiw) margot wallstrm, former minister for foreign affairs, sweden james zogby, founder and president, arab american institute throughout the year, the u. S. /middle east project's leadership, visiting fellows and senior advisors, published numerous opinion pieces and articles. A selection is listed below: lara friedman, non-resident fellow, wrote a briefing paper entitled, the middle east peace process landscape: a post-election view from washington (december, 2016) thomas r. Pickering, chairman, and brent scowcroft, chairman emeritus, published a piece in the washington post, entitled "speaking truth to our ally israel. " (december 31, 2016) daniel levy, president, wrote a piece for the national interest, entitled "one state? Two states? The power of trump's roll of the dice. " (march 6, 2017) henry siegman, president emeritus, wrote a piece for the london review of books, entitled, "the ultimate deal. " (march 24, 2017) efraim halevy, senior advisor, published an essay in a special summer 2017 issue of fathom journal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the balfour declaration.

mapping non-partition futures in israel-palestine: the u. S. /middle east project commissioned a study on "mapping non- partition," an effort to map-out relevant israeli and palestinian actors committed to advancing scenarios that do not involve partitioning israel and the occupied palestinian territories into two independent states. The aims of the project have been three-fold: to determine who the actors are, in both societies and across the political spectrum, pushing for a non- partitioned state of any description; what alternatives they are proposing to the two-state approach; and how they address a series of questions essential to the functioning of a non-partitioned state. The study sought to combine into a single database the entirety of already available information from a diversity of sources-books, essays, op-eds, speeches, policy papers and media commentary. The result of the study was a power-point presentation shared with usmep stakeholders as well as a vast excel sheet of some 2,000 cells, with telling gaps in some aspects of non-partition and telling contrasts between which issues which players were most eager to discuss. The project was carried out by two researchers - dr. Tareq baconi and mr. Dmitry reider. The researchers provided both an interim report with initial findings and a final report that was delivered in may 2017.

the sentinel project the u. S. /middle east project coordinated the initial start-up phases of a new study entitled "south-wet asia sentinel - anticipating geo-political realignments: the middle east and north-east africa, a project on early warning". The project's leader is andree zaaiman, a former advisor to the south african minister of public service and administration, lindiwe sisulu. The focus of the study was the exploration of regional geopolitical trends in the middle east and broader region, to anticipate crises, to understand the core motivations and interests of external actors as well as to examine the region's shifting geopolitics. The focus of the project was two-fold: 1) on the coming geo-political realignment and its potential impact on the region; and 2) exploring the outline and mechanisms for a new regional (and perhaps by extension global) accommodation stemming from it. By focusing on these two dimensions, the purpose was to produce and encourage new and different ways of thinking about the middle-east and its problems.