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Welcoming Remarks

David Chambers, Middle East Institute

Keynote Address - Iraq: Promise, Performance and Prospects

Introduction by Edward S. Walker, Former President, Middle East Institute
Madeleine Albright, Former US Secretary of State, chair of the Albright Group LLC

Panel 1: Counter-Terrorism in Governance Reform

Edgar Brenner, International Law Institute
Ellen Laipson, Stimson Center
Alina Romanowski, US State Department
Moderator: Don Wallace, International Law Institute

Panel 2: Gunboat Diplomacy

Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution
Robert Oakley, National Defense University
Paul Schwartz, US Army MG (ret.)
Moderator: Michael Collins Dunn, Middle East Journal

Panel 3: Trade Diplomacy

Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
Cathy Novelli, US Trade Representative
William Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council
John Sullivan, Center for International Private Enterprise
Moderator: Jeffrey Donald, Business Council for International Understanding

Panel 4: Media Diplomacy: Who Controls the Control Room?

Hafiz Al-Mirazi, Al-Jazeera Television Network
Jehane Noujaim, Noujaim Films
Norm Pattiz, Broadcasting Board of Governors
Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post
Moderator: David Chambers, Middle East Institute

Panel 5: Soft Power

Isam Al-Khafaji, MEI Adjunct Scholar and Director of Iraq Revenue Watch
John Hulsman, Heritage Foundation
Theodore Kattouf, AMIDEAST
Anatol Lieven, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator: David Chambers, Middle East Institute

A Medieval Arab Dinner

Charles Perry, Los Angeles Times Food Critic, Culinary Consultant, and Author of Medieval Arab Cookery

Banquet Address

Introduction by Ambassador Wyche Fowler, Jr., Chairman of the Board of the Middle East Institute
John F. Lehman, J.F. Lehman & Company, Member "9/11 Commission"