event

Is a Sovereign Palestine Still Possible?

Thu. October 11th, 2018
Washington, DC

This event has reached capacity and registration has closed. Watch live starting at 12:30 p.m. EST.

What will the recent changes in U.S. policy—including recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, terminating assistance to Palestinians and UNRWA, and closing the Palestinian representative office in Washington—mean for the future of U.S.-Palestinian relations and the Palestinian national project? Will the accelerated pace of settlement construction and attempts to normalize Israeli control over the occupied Palestinian territory create irreversible realities with long-term ramifications for Palestinian self-determination and regional security?  

Please join Carnegie for a discussion with Hanan Ashrawi, Daniel Levy, and Andrew Miller. Michele Dunne will moderate.

A light lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m. The discussion will begin at 12:30 p.m.

Hanan Ashrawi

Hanan Ashrawi is a member of the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestinian Legislative Council and is a writer, activist and scholar.

Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy is the president of the US/Middle East Peace Project (USMEPP) and former senior adviser to Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and justice minister Yossi Beilin.

Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program and the deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED).

Michele Dunne 

Michele Dunne is the director and senior fellow of the Carnegie Middle East Program.

Political ReformDemocracyForeign PolicyMiddle EastIsraelPalestine
event speakers

Hanan Ashrawi

Hanan Ashrawi is a distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.

Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S. / Middle East Project. He was previously director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations, an advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister's office, and a member of the Israeli peace negotiating team.

Andrew Miller

Nonresident Scholar, Middle East Program

Andrew Miller was a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program.

Michele Dunne

Nonresident Scholar, Middle East Program

Michele Dunne was a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East.