Inside Story, an AlJazeera news magazine, featured a discussion of the warnings by Saudi Arabian Prince Turki al-Faisal, former Ambassador to the US, about consequences of American action to defeat a Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN in September 2011. In addition to background reporting in this extensive coverage panelists Jamal Khashoggi, P.J. Crowley and Salman Shaikh provide additional context to the story.

Time: 00:25:30

Bahgat Korany’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.

Run Time: 8:23

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.

Run Time : 12:36

Complete recording of the sixty-fourth Capitol Hill Conference, featuring a discussion of the populist movements sweeping across the Arab world, their regional and global consequences, and how they are impacting U.S. interests and policy choices. The event was live streamed from approximately 9:30am EST until noon on Thursday, April 28, 2011. A questions and answers session was held at the end of the proceedings. [Read the unedited transcript here].

[You can watch the video of the conference by clicking here].

Run time: 143:20

Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler on Revolution and Protest from Georgetown CCAS on Vimeo.

This event is an installment of the CCAS spring series, ‘Revolution in the Long View.’

The lecture series on ‘Revolution in the Arab World: The Long View’ proposes a variety of interdisciplinary and long-term perspectives on the repercussions of the Revolutions of 2010-2011 for the Arab world and beyond. Among the thematic questions the series aims to examine and address are: the prospects for Tunisian and Egyptian reformers to institutionalize the achievements of their revolutions; the potential for the Tunisian and Egyptian examples to be repeated in other Arab countries; the comparative vulnerability of Arab authoritarian states to similar popular uprisings, and the various counter-strategies they may employ to resist, contain, or co-opt the momentum of the populist protests.

Laleh Khalili is a senior lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge 2007) and Time in the Shadows: Incarceration in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford University Press, forthcoming) and co-editor with Jillian Schwedler of Policing and Prisons in the Modern Middle East: Formations of Coercion (Columbia University Press, 2010).

Dr. Jillian Schwedler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously she was Assistant Professor (200-2007) and Associate Professor (2007) of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She received her PhD in Politics from New York University in 2000. She was formerly the Chair of the Board of Directors (2001-2009) and member of the Editorial Committee (1995-2001) of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), publishers of the quarterly magazine, Middle East Report.

Run time: 1:27

Ambassador Chas Freeman discusses “America’s Misadventures in the Middle East” in the context of the recent popular uprisings in the region.

Run time: 7:11

This episode of Inside Story discusses what ‘Iranian meddling’ may or may not amount to, and just what the GCC and Iran are achieving by ratcheting up the rhetoric at this time. Kamahl Santamaria discusses with guests Hussein Shobokshi, a columnist for Asharq Alaw-sat newspaper; Ghanbar Naderi, a political commentator and journalist; and Fahad Shulemi, a security analyst and a former colonel in the Kuwaiti army.

Run Time: 25:26

From an event on July 1, 2010 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

“A year after President Obama called for a new beginning in U.S. relations with the Muslim world, it remains unclear the role human rights play in Washington’s policies in the Arab region. While the recently released National Security Strategy includes the promotion of democracy and human rights abroad as a core foreign policy value, there are lingering questions as to how this will be translated into action. Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Tamara Cofman Wittes discussed current U.S. policy toward human rights in the Arab countries at a July 1 event cosponsored by the Carnegie Endowment and the Heinrich Boll Foundation. Two leading Arab human rights advocates—Bahey El Din Hassan of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and Amal Basha of the Sisters’ Arab Forum for Human Rights in Yemen—discussed the human rights situation in the region and their perceptions of U.S. policies. Carnegie’s Michele Dunne moderated.”

Seven short clips are followed by the full run of the panel [Run Time: 01:40:55]

On July 12, 2010 the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a day long symposium on “China and the Persian Gulf” in an event co-sponsored by the Asia Program and the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.  This video is part one of two recordings made of the event.  Part one provides the Political Perspectives panel which was introduced by Michael Van Dusen, Executive VP of the Wilson Center and it included remarks by:

• Wu Bingbing, The Sultan Qaboos Professor in Arabic Studies, Department of Arabic Language and Culture, Peking University, China
• Emile Hokayem, political editor, The National (UAE) and senior fellow for regional security, International Institute for Strategic Studies-Middle East, Bahrain
• Jon B. Alterman, director and senior fellow, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Chair: J. Stapleton Roy, director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson Center

The video is available through the Wilson Center web site by CLICKING ON THIS LINK TO THE VIDEO.

Part two, Economic Perspectives, is available on SUSRIStube.com at this LINK.