Officials and academic experts discuss security concerns in the Middle East at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies on Monday.
They talk about Syria's intensifying civil war, the constitutional crisis in Egypt, Iran’s push for nuclear capability, the recent Palestinian-Israeli confrontation and uncertainties about future U.S. and European policy directions.
Panelists include: Noam Katz, minister of public diplomacy at the Embassy of Israel and former Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria; Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Qamar-ul Huda, senior program officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Center and a scholar of Islam at the United States Institute of Peace; and Issam Saliba, Middle East Specialist at the Law Library of Congress.
Yonah Alexander, director of the International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, moderates.