The Middle East
The seminar usually meets once a month during the academic year, with members coming from as far as California and Florida. A prominent expert from here or abroad, commonly from the Middle East, leads a four-hour discussion at each meeting, assuring ample time for serious dialogue on focused issues. The seminar provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences by Middle East experts in various spheres—business, banking and investment, federal service, the foundations, the media, and the liberal professions as well as academia. The seminar has become a medium for carefully-defined and informed evaluation of stubborn problems in a region that symbolizes mounting instability and proliferating crises. Detailed minutes are circulated to participating members for use without attribution to uphold the confidentiality of the discussion.
Seminar: #525
Founded: 1971
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Seminar Administration
Co Chairs:
J. C. Hurewitz
Professor emeritus of government
Lawrence Potter
Staff Associate, Middle East Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor, International Affairs, Columbia University
212.854.2584
lgp5@columbia.edu
Gary Sick
Senior Research Scholar, School of International Affairs and Director, Gulf 2000 Project
Columbia University
212.854.2124
ggs2@columbia.edu
Rapporteur:
Megan Tetrick
Columbia University
mjt2124@colubmia.edu
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