Prince Turki Al-Faisal’s remarks at the Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge, 2011. This is part of a panel discussion on the Arab Spring and changes in the region.

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This video is part of a special Council on Foreign Relations series that explores how 9/11 changed international relations and U.S. foreign policy. In this video, Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow and Director of CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, discusses how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2011 influenced a debate over social and economic challenges and opportunities in the Middle East.

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Prince Turki is known for his commitment to promoting greater understanding and better relations between the West and Saudi Arabia. He was the Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States in 2005-2007; he also served as ambassador to the United Kingdom. Before those postings, he served for 25 years as chief of Saudia Arabia’s General Intelligence Directorate.

Prince Turki currently teaches at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and is co-chair of the C100 Group, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, which promotes interfaith dialogue and greater understanding between the West and Islamic countries. He was a founder of the King Faisal Foundation, which is one of the world’s largest philanthropies, and serves as Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. Prince Turki was educated at Georgetown, Princeton, and Cambridge Universities and at the University of London.

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First Tunisia, then Egypt. Since mid-December 2010, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests has spread to 16 Middle East and North African countries. Political columnist and author Rami G. Khouri assesses the reasons for the citizen revolts across the Arab world, the responses of ruling regimes, and the prospects for transitions to pluralistic democracies. He draws on the results of two years of research on Arab youth that shows how material stresses and intangible political degradations led to the uprisings.

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A description and overview of the history of the International Energy Forum.

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Dr. Larry Michalak, PhD, a cultural anthropologist and Middle East specialist from the University of California, Berkeley talked with SUSRIS.com editor in chief Patrick Ryan about the image of Arabs and Muslims in American cinema.  Dr. Michalak’s research about the improvements in film portrayals was the subject of a paper presented at the recent Middle East Studies Association annual conference in San Diego.

“Stanford Graduate School of Business Dean Garth Saloner and student Muhammed Mekki, MBA Class of 10, on the impact of Global Study trips and the Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates experience in four cities on the Arabian peninsula.”

Visit to King Abdullah Economic City.

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