AGSIW Senior Resident Scholar Hussein Ibish spoke at the conference “The Two-State Solution and Beyond” at Maison du Futur in Bikfaya, Lebanon, where he addressed the development of “outside-in” approaches to Middle East peace, focusing on the role that Gulf Arab countries can play,  given the emerging approach of the administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump. The conference was also sponsored by the Al Quds Center and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

Ibish also spoke on a plenary session of the 2017 Association for Israel Studies Conference at Brandeis University. Speaking alongside Daniel Kurtzer of Princeton University, Anita Shapira of Tel Aviv University, and Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the United States Husam Zomlot, Ibish focused on the regional changes over the decades since the 1967 war, and the role Gulf Arab countries can play in pursuing Israeli-Palestinian peace and creating a new strategic environment in the region.