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November 8-9, 2004
Tufts University
Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts
Cosponsored by
The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
The Fletcher School
Office of the Provost
University College of Citizenship and Public Service
This conference was planned to take place just after the U.S. presidential
elections, in the hope that the discussions of our expert participants on
how best to move forward in the Middle East will provide valuable insights
and suggestions to a new or returning U.S. administration. The centrality of
American leadership in the world and the inevitability of its involvement
with the Middle East for years to come, make it imperative to reflect on
what we can learn from recent foreign policy and world events, and what we
can recommend to those who are in a position to shape the future of our global world.
| Monday, November 8 |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Refreshments/Registration
Cabot Intercultural Center |
| 2:45 p.m. |
Welcome |
Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University
Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese
and Eastern Mediterranean Studies and Founding
Director, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean
Studies |
Session I
3:00-3:45 p.m. |
Building a More Informed and Engaged American
Citizenry |
Speaker: John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer,
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Chair: Rob Hollister, Dean, University College of
Citizenship and Public Service |
Session II
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Promoting Middle East Peace |
Speakers:
Sari Nusseibeh, Radcliffe Institute Fellow,
Harvard University;President and Professor of
Philosophy, at Al-Quds University, the Arab
University of Jerusalem
David J. Greene, Acting Director, Office of
Israel and Palestinian Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Naomi Chazan, Robert Wilhelm Fellow, MIT CIS, and
Professor of Political Science and African Studies,
Hebrew University
Chair: Jeswald W. Salacuse, Henry J. Braker
Professor of Law, The Fletcher School |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Reception
Hall of Flags |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Dinner: By invitation |
Speaker: Edward Djerejian, Founding Director,
James
A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice
University
“The Struggle for Ideas in the Middle East”
Chair: Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice
President, Tufts University |
| Tuesday, November 9 |
| 9:15 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Welcome and Introductions |
| Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, The Fletcher School |
Session III
10:00 a.m. – Noon |
Communicating with the Arab World |
Speakers:
Edward Djerejian, Founding Director, James A. Baker
III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Hisham Melhem, Senior Correspondent, As-Safir
William A. Rugh, Georgetown University
Chair: Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate
Professor of Political Science, University of
Michigan. |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Lunch: By invitation (live webcast transmision
to ASEAN auditorium) |
Speaker: Ian S. Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Professor of
Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
“Can Truth Figure in Dialogue on American Foreign
Policy in the Middle East?” |
Session IV
1:45-3:45 p.m. |
Engaging in Dialogue with the Muslim World
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Speakers:
John L. Esposito, University Professor of Religion
and International Affairs and Professor of Islamic
Studies, Georgetown University
Vali R. Nasr, Professor of Middle East and South
Asia Politics
Department of National Security Affairs, Naval
Postgraduate School
Feroz Ahmad, Adjunct Professor of Diplomatic
History, The Fletcher School
Ayesha Jalal, Professor of History, Tufts University
Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic
History and South Asian Affairs, Harvard University |
| 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. |
Break |
Session V
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Learning Lessons from Iraq |
Speakers:
Richard H. Shultz, Professor of International
Politics, The Fletcher School
Ghassan Salameh, Former Cabinet Minister, Lebanon,
Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques,
Paris, Senior Advisor to the United Nations
Secretary-General
Juan R. I. Cole, Professor of History, University of
Michigan
Chair: Stephen W. Van Evera, Professor of Political
Science, MIT |
| 6:00-6:30 p.m. |
Concluding Remarks: |
Ghassan Tuéni, Former Cabinet Minister, Lebanon,
Editor-in-Chief, an-Nahar
Chair: Richard Murphy, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior
Fellow for the Middle East, Council on Foreign
Affairs
Closing: Jamshed Bharucha Provost and Senior
Vice President, Tufts University |
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