the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. almighty god, we give you you s for giving us thanks for giving us another day. you have plom missed, o god, you are with us wherever we are and whatever we are doing to heal and to help, to give strength and make us whole. we pray that the members of this assembly, especially, and us all, will be receptive to your promises and receive them with confidence and conviction that armed by your spirit they will be able to forge good legislation which promotes justice, equity, and truth. may we be mindful of all that that all are created in your image. help us to see your spirit and those who are different from us it in age, color, religion, and all other ways, including in politics. and engage each other with good will and respect. may all that is done today be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker: the compare compare and announces to t
session. and so we ll turn it over to the chair of the session titled arab-u.s. relations: where are we going. ms. raghida dergham. good afternoon. one more time, hope that you re not tired of me yet. i am founder and executive chairman of beirut institute. it s a think tank for the arab region with global reach and whose idea is to continue a very constructive conversation amongst us so that we can fix it rather than only complain about it. everything we do is to see how do we reach solutions and how do we go for the next step. i am honored today to chair this very important session. i am very happy that i have three women, four women how many are we? we have a minority. finally, we have one man. [laughter] on a session rather than normally one woman. so i m glad to welcome you. i would conduct this conversation each person alone for about 4 or 5 minutes, and then i will engage everyone together. so we have experts on egypt, on libya, on tunisian and libya and iraq, on s
so just like we did yesterday, we are going to hear from a couple of individuals that have participated in either one or more of our programs that we offer at the national council. so without further adieu, i d like to introduce yazmine ali. etc. tooemed guests and to the staff here at the national council, i would first like to express my gratitude to the staff here at the national council for this rare opportunity to be able to address a room filled with role models. i would also like to thank sydney, who has become not only a friend, but also a mentor for me. sydney, alongside the staff here at the council, have opened countless doors for me. the pinnacle being my current internship at the usa pavilion for the world expo 2020 in dubai. at my first day at the national council, dr. john anthony embedded in me one of the most important frames of reference for conducting and analyzing policy in the middle east. that being empathy. it is with empathy he emphasizes that us as
board members. and selfless splendor of middle east programs here at the atlantic. and finally we welcome private companies and nonprofits. i predict a rich and substantive question and answer session following the discussion on the stage. open to everyone. this richness, of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolute superlative interviewer. will draw the kernels wisdom. trump freedom needs no introduction but simply for fun, i will remind you that you can read his analysis of foreign affairs and new york times and analysis for which he has won a prize. he is the author of several books and several focus on the middle east. one of which from beirut to jerusalem was a textbook and might middle east text work in my undergraduate work. his bio is printed out here. is non- resident senior fellow at the atlantic council career center for the middle east. in addition to reading his work on our website, you can read it on his own blog, middle east corner. he retired from 25 y
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