Question and answer session following the discussion on the stage, open to everyone. This richness of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolutely interviewer who will draw the kernels of wisdom out today. Totom freedman needs note introduction, you can read him in the new york times, analysis for which he has won the pulitzer prize. He is the author of several books, several focused on the middle east and one of which from beirut to jerusalem was a textbook in my middle east coursework as an undergraduate. His fol full bio is available printed out here. Lets turn to the man of the hour, he is a nonresident senior at the Career Center for the middle east. In addition to reading his work on our website, you can read on his own blog middle east corner, nabeel retired for 26 years in the Foreign Service in 2013 with the rank of the counselor. He taught at the National Defense university Northwest University in his last overseas posting, he served as a deputy chief of mission at the u