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Amman from 22-24 June 2010. Current SRF grantees on fellowship and program alumni traveled from Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Iraq (including Kurdistan), the United Arab Emirates, and the United States to take part in the June workshops; participants have also traveled from Lebanon and Sudan in the past. In addition to invite

t financial and in- kind support. We have tried to place scholars in the MENA region, keeping them as close to Iraq as possible: Jordan, Syria, Iraq-Kurdistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, Bahrain, and the UAE. Outside of the region, Iraqi scholars have been placed in the U.S., the U.K., Malaysia, Australia, Germ

as a "dead man walking." Mr. Kahwaji is CEO and founder of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analyses (INEGMA), a think tank in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that is active in media and conference activities within the region. He is also the Middle East Bureau Chief for Defense News, an international de

tator to surrender his nuclear program (and helped expose the Abdul Qadeer Khan nuclear EFTA_R1_01992710 EFTA02681495 12 network); the birth in Kurdistan of an island of civility and free markets and the birth in Iraq of a diverse free press. But Iraq will only be transformational if it truly becomes

y and security of the country and the success of the new government in gaining added legitimacy. The Saudis, as well as other Gulf countries, like the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, realise full well that the Egyptian economy could prove to be the Achilles heels of the new political set up in Cairo. According to pr

ate. For all the present acrimony over the Iraq War, we forget that one dividend was the emergence of a semi-autonomous and largely constitutional Kurdistan of some 7 million people, whose recent tragic history had been one of ethnic cleansing, gassing, and slaughter. Only prior liberation by and curren

thal aid to rebel groups, the officials said. The gathering of the top intelligence officials from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Britain, France and the United Arab Emirates, and several others from the 11-nation group known as the Friends of Syria, reflected a belief that the diplomatic track has been exhausted unless

action. Erdogan managed to portray his recent trip to Brussels as a great success story. The ongoing but stagnant peace process with the insurgent Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) also provides him an important lifeline. The PKK remains quiet, keeps the ceasefire reached a year ago, and its jailed leader