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Trita Parsi, author and president of the National Iranian-American Council on "Treacherous Triangle - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States"Dr. Trita Parsi is currently President of the National Iranian American Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Iranian-American participation in American civic life. His expertise is Iranian foreign policy and US-Iran relations. His forthcoming book, Treacherous Triangle - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press 2007), is based on more than 120 interviews that he has conducted - in a personal capacity - in Israel, Iran and the United States with senior officials from all three countries. In addition, his articles on Middle East affairs have been published in the Financial Times, Jane's Intelligence Review, The Globalist, and The Jerusalem Post. He has appeared on BBC World News, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN (Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room), CNN International, and Al Jazeera.This event is co-sponsored with The Pluralism Fund, a U.S. registered 501(c)3 whose members are dedicated to the support of civil society in Iran and Pakistan as well as to the education of U.S. citizens on their countries of focus. Contact: nhsu@network2020.org |
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Vali Nasr, author and Professor, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School on "The Shia Revival"Dr. Vali Nasr is one of the world's leading experts on the Islamic world and Muslim politics. His work focuses on the role of religion in politics, violence, and democratization. He has advised senior policy makers, members of Congress and the Senate, the White House, State Department, and leading executives in the private sector. He is a frequent contributor to CNN, BBC, NPR and PRI, and Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and a guest on the Charlie Rose Show, Meet the Press, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Real Time with Bill Maher. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, The New Republic, and Christian Science Monitor.He is the author of numerous books and articles on Islam and Middle East politics. His most recent book is New York Times best-selling The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. Contact: nhsu@network2020.org |
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Panel Discussion on "Guantanamo: Defending or Undermining the American Way?"Panelists include:Tai-Heng Cheng Network 20/20 charter member Tai-Heng Cheng is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School. He is concurrently guest professor at Sarah Lawrence College and Of Counsel to the law firm Engel McCarney & Kenney LLP. Christopher Moore Christopher Moore is an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP whose practice focuses upon international litigation and arbitration. Mr. Moore currently represents on a pro bono basis Zakirjan Hassam, an ethnic Uzbek who has been imprisoned in Guantanamo for more than four years despite having been cleared of all charges over eighteen months ago. J. Wells Dixon J. Wells Dixon is an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City. He works on the Center's Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, challenging the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. |
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