Whether by cspan or in the room with us. My name is natan sachs, and i am the director of the center for middle east policy at the Brookings Institution and on behalf of the center, the Brookings Institution large, i want to welcome you again. We have a special event and a full house to boot. This is not the first event in washington on this general topic , and i think it is a fair question to ask why, why are we focusing on the murder of one individual . I think that is the topic that will come up in our discussion today, of course. I think two points are worth pointing out at first, and perhaps even right here ive said this here before. Brookings has a quaint notion that facts matter. It is controversial, but we do. And we think that norms might matter or should matter. Perhaps more open for debate on which norms and when. In that sense, i cannot think of a better event to shed light on some of the facts of what became a large important event. Jamal khashoggi was known to many people