On February 9, AGSIW will host Athol Yates for a discussion of his book exploring the history of the UAE’s armed forces. Yates will be joined by Kenneth Pollack and Emma Soubrier. Hussein Ibish will moderate the panel.
On February 26, AGSIW will host a conversation with Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian and Abdulaziz Al Sager to discuss their January 31 op-ed published by The Guardian.
Despite the reconciliation between Qatar and its neighbors, the Gulf Cooperation Council is far from united, and it is hard to know where the organization heads from here.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has little choice but to focus on U.S. domestic crises. Only a remarkable series of foreign policy successes could fully restore traditional U.S. internationalism, but Biden wants to take it as far as possible.
AGSIW hosted a private roundtable with Joey Hood, acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Hood provided his perspective on the Department of State’s priorities in the Middle East under President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s administration.
In the Media
The National:Ambassador William Roebuck discussed the Biden administration’s policy on Syria. He additionally commented on the United States’ Syria policy for Asharq Al-Awsat.
Al Arabiya:Hussein Ibish considered the differences in U.S., EU, and NATO approaches to Iraq with the Biden administration compared to the Trump administration.
