, Mitchell's departure could signal stagnant talks for the next several years. According to Fawaz Gerges, director of the London School of Economics' Middle East Center, "the reality is that, with Mitchell leaving, Barack Obama basically lost the ideological battle [over how to confront the peace process]. By now he'

Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visitin

i Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visiti

Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visiti

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Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visiti