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Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

Arab Voices on the Challenges of the Middle East

Tue. May 3rd, 2016
Beirut, Lebanon

The Carnegie Middle East Center was pleased to host a review of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s first Arab Experts Survey. 

The results of the survey, which was conducted in English and Arabic, represent the views of more than 100 accomplished political thinkers from almost every Arab country. They answer broad questions around terrorism and extremism, civil war and foreign intervention, sectarianism, corruption, and governance. The survey is part of Carnegie’s Arab World Horizons project, an effort to examine the social, political, and economic forces shaping the Arab world. 

Marwan Muasher, Jihad Azour and Walid Haddouk discussed the findings of the survey, and Maha Yahya moderated.

Jihad Azour

Jihad Azour is a former Lebanese minister of finance.

Walid Haddouk

Walid Haddouk is a Tunisian political researcher and writer.

Marwan Muasher

Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Maha Yahya

Maha Yahya is senior associate and acting director of Carnegie Middle East Center.

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event speakers

Jihad Azour

IMF

Mr. Jihad Azour is the Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund where he oversees the Fund’s work in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Caucasus.

Walid Haddouk

Walid Haddouk is a Tunisian political researcher and writer.

Marwan Muasher

Vice President for Studies

Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002–2004) and deputy prime minister (2004–2005) of Jordan, and his career has spanned the areas of diplomacy, development, civil society, and communications.

Maha Yahya

Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.