Owning a Piece of Palestine: Syria’s Assad Regime and the Palestinian Question

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Owning a Piece of Palestine: Syria’s Assad Regime and the Palestinian Question

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This event is co-sponsored by the American Task Force on Palestine.

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EVENT DETAILS

DATE

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

TIME

12:15 to 2:00 p.m.

LOCATION

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

SPEAKERS

Robert Danin, Radwan Ziadeh, Hussein Ibish, Ziad Asali, and Marina Ottaway

Since coming to power in 1970, the Syrian regime has had an uneasy relationship with the Palestinians. President Hafez al-Assad and subsequently his son President Bashar al-Assad have consistently claimed to champion the Palestinian cause, but in practice they have had conflicts with Palestinian leaders and attempted to intervene in Palestinian politics.

The American Task Force on Palestine's Hussein Ibish and George Washington University’s Radwan Ziadeh will present Palestinian and Syrian perspectives on Palestinian-Syrian relations since 1970, their current status, and implications for the future of bilateral and regional diplomacy. The Council on Foreign Relations’ Robert Danin will address the American viewpoint, and American Task Force for Palestine’s Ziad Asali will moderate. Carnegie Endowment’s Marina Ottaway will provide an introduction.

A light lunch will be offered starting at 12:00 p.m.

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Speakers
Robert Danin is a senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he has served as head of the Office of the Quartet Representative, Tony Blair, in Jerusalem, and prior to that he was deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. He has also served as director for the Levant and Israeli-Palestinian affairs for the White House National Security Council and as acting senior director for Near East and North African affairs.

Radwan Ziadeh is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs. He has been a fellow at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, the National Endowment for Democracy, Chatham House, and the United States Institute of Peace, and was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He is the founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria and co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies. He is also the managing editor of the Transitional Justice in the Arab World Project and has written extensively on politics in Syria and the Arab world.

Hussein Ibish is a senior research fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine. He is a columnist for Now Lebanon, writes for numerous publications, blogs at Ibishblog.com, and was listed in Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 "Twitterati" for 2011. His most recent book is What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda? (ATFP, 2009).

Moderators
Ziad Asali is the president and founder of the American Task Force on Palestine and a long-time activist on Middle East issues. He has served as president of Arab American University Graduates and president of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. He has testified before the Senate on the issue of Palestinian education, before the full U.S. House Committee on International Relations, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and before Congress regarding the aftermath of the Gaza War. He has served twice as a member of the U.S. Presidential delegation to the Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem, and was previously co-chair of U.S.-Palestinian Public Private Partnership (UPP). Asali is also the founder and chairman of the American Charities for Palestine.

Marina Ottaway is a senior associate in the Carnegie Middle East Program and works on issues of political transformation in the Middle East and Gulf security. A long-time analyst of the formation and transformation of political systems, she has also written on political reconstruction in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, and African countries.

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