Democratization in the Middle East: The Future of the US Experiment

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Panelists:

Sami Alfaraj
Advisor, Secretary General, the Gulf Cooperation Council; Strategic Planner, Government of Kuwait; Author, "Bridge 21: Crossing to a New Century" (Kuwait's strategic vision for the 21st Century, or the opening to the East, "The Silk Road Strategy")

Ethan Bronner
Deputy Foreign Editor and Former Assistant Editorial Page Editor, Education Editor and National Education Correspondent, The New York Times; Former Middle East Correspondent, The Boston Globe

Fatemeh Haghighatjou
Former Member, Iranian Parliament; Professor, Tehran University and Shahid Beheshti University; Former Head, Student Psychological Consultant Center, Iran University of Science and Technology; Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University

Saad Eddin Ibrahim
A leading Egyptian pro-democracy Activist; Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and Professor of Political Sociology, American University of Cairo; Former, Secretary General, Egyptian Independent Commission for Electoral Review; Trustee, Arab Thought Forum; Founder and Core Member, Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East; Former Founder and Secretary-General, Arab Organization for Human Rights; Author, Bridging the Gap: Intellectuals and Decision Makers in the Arab World and The New Arab Social Order

John Shattuck
Chief Executive Officer, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, US Department of State; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic; Former Executive Director, Washington Office, American Civil Liberties Union; Author, Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars of the 90s

Tony Smith
Jackson Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Author, A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise and America's Mission: The U.S. and the Global Struggle for Democracy in the 20th Century