Us have observe and supported this relationship from deepening our count eerterrorismcounterte. The challenge has been to reconcile close, effective cooperation on National Security issues while remaining faithful to two very different value systems. The nature of our military cooperation, human rights violations, addressing regional bad actors and more demand attention and likely change. These issues are ripe for informed, dispassionate review. We are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today to delve into the factors at play affecting the u. S. Approach to saudi arabia, our relationship and its future. However, before i turn to todays program, i would like to say a few words about the middle east policy council. The council was established in 1981 for the purpose of promoting dialogue and education concerning the United States and the countries of the middle east. We have three flagship programs. Our quarterly capitol hill conference such as todays event. Our quarterl
Jamal khashoggi, the civil war in yemen and Irans Nuclear program. All right. Good morning, everyone. I am gina, the vice chairwoman of the board of the middle east policy council. Im pleased to welcome you to this, our 97th quarterly capitol hill conference. Our topic today is the United States Saudi Arabian relationship. Over the last 40 years, many of us have observed and supported this relationship from deepening our counterterrorism operation to championing womens rights. The challenge on each side has been to reconcile close, effective cooperation on National Security issues while remaining faithful to two very different value systems. Under the current leadership of both countries, these tensions have been brought into sharp focus. The nature of our military cooperation, human rights violations, addressing regional bad actors and more demand attention and likely change. These issues are ripe for informed dispassionate review and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of p
Descriptive conclusions to share with us. Well, i have always been prompted or provoked to look into the past because of contemporary circumstances. Sometimes consciously sometimes not. In my recent work, it has been motivated or at least in large part stimulated by some rather cream infants that the world is going through in the last 20 years or more. You can read about it in any newspaper. Im the only one reading the newspaper everyone else was reading on my pants iphones or other instruments. Type in particularly concerned with ethnic conflicts that our Company Country has been wrapped up in. People think about the syrups and muslims and kurds, lebanon, a whole range of conflict conflicts, it goes on and on. Some of that is punctuated by or aggravated by negative stereotyping. 18 and 19 of the other, a demonizing of the other who is inferior and instructional objectionable. Needs to be dealt with. This is a plague that has been around for quite some time and we have been increasingl
Sensitive to this and attuned to it in part because of a very important book that was written in the 70s by ed said. Said was a palestinian and activist but also a distinguished professor of english at Columbia University and also a music critic for international publications. His book which was called orientalism, if he didnt coin the word, certainly made is significant so that no one could use the word oriental because it has a kind of negative connotation to it. It is a sense what said argued was that this is is a perception of the easterner that came from imperialistic colonial powers in the 19th century that den gated denigrated, a few years ago there was another book written called occidentallism, which was designed to show the other side of it, that is how easterners, particularly people from islam, muslims, how they depict the westerner, how they depict the Christian Society on the whole similar negative stereotypes and similar type casting so that we are embroiled in this kind
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