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Event

Dynamic Gulf: Forces of Change in a Strategic Region

Fri, June 14th, 2013

Washington, DC

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Scholars, analysts, and activists from across the Middle East, Europe, and the United States will examine the commonly neglected forces at work in this dynamic and strategically important region.

Share your questions and comments, and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter @CarnegieEndow, using #DynamicGulf.

This conference was cosponsored by Carnegie and Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). 

Middle EastBahrainSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesPolitical Reform

Event Speakers

Frederic Wehrey
Senior Fellow, Middle East Program
Frederic Wehrey
Kristin Smith Diwan

Kristin Smith Diwan is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Her current projects concern generational change, nationalism, and the evolution of Islamism in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Kristin Smith Diwan
Jane Kinninmont
European Leadership Network
Jane Kinninmont
Ahmed al Omran
Stephen McInerney
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is a fellow with the Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and an associate fellow at Chatham House.

Bernard Haykel
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.
Bernard Haykel
Mark Lynch
Andrew Hammond
Ali Al Shihabi
Abdulhadi al-Khalaf
Marc Lynch
Former Nonresident Senior Fellow, Middle East Program
Marc Lynch

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

Event Speakers

Frederic Wehrey

Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on governance, conflict, and security in Libya, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf.

Kristin Smith Diwan

Kristin Smith Diwan is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Her current projects concern generational change, nationalism, and the evolution of Islamism in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Jane Kinninmont

European Leadership Network

Jane Kinninmont is the director of impact at the European Leadership Network.

Ahmed al Omran

Stephen McInerney

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is a fellow with the Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and an associate fellow at Chatham House.

Bernard Haykel

Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.

Bernard Heykal is a professor of Near Eastern Studies and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.

Mark Lynch

Andrew Hammond

Ali Al Shihabi

Abdulhadi al-Khalaf

Marc Lynch

Former Nonresident Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

Marc Lynch was a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world.

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