Programme

Main Theatre
​(Al Gassar)

Opening Remarks:

• Sheikh Hamad Bin Thamer Al Thani, Chairman of the Board

• ​Dr Mostefa Souag, Director General of Al Jazeera

Main Theatre
(Al Gassar)

Keynote Speeches:

• Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, Minister's Assistant for International Cooperation Affairs, Qatar
• Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the UK

Keynote Speech:

• Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour, Adviser to the Iranian Foreign Minister

Regional and International Scope of Conflict in the Arab World:

• Nikolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process

• Ayman Nour, Founder and Chairman of El Ghad Party

• Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Prize for Peace Laureate, Yemen

• Hassan Ahmadian, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research in Iran

• Khalid Saleh, Head of the Syrian National Coalition

Ballroom 1 - 2
(St Regis)

Conflict in the Arab World: Causes, Manifestations and Repercussions:

• Maha Azzam, Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council
• Lina Khatib, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center
• Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan
• Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Reader in Politics at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster
• Hemin Hawrami, Head of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Foreign Relations Office

Al Fanna
(Al Gassar)

Amber
(St Regis)

Ballroom 3
(St Regis)

The Economic Aspect of Conflict:

• Elena Ianchovichina, Lead Economist in the Chief Economist Office of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region
• Adeel Malik, Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
• Ahmed Ould Dadah, Head of the Rally of Democratic Forces Party in Mauritania
• Elyes Fakhfakh, Former Finance Minister of Tunisia
• Kamal Field, Director of Research at the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform

Keynote Speeches:

• Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of Morocco
• Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour, Adviser to the Iranian Foreign Minister (TBC)

Main Theatre
​(Al Gassar)

The Role of Media inConflict:

• Nadia Al-Sakkaf, Former Minister of Information in Yemen

• Yasser Abuhilala, Managing Director of Al Jazeera News Channel

• Razan Ghazzawi, Programme Coordinator at Institute for War and Peace Reporting

• Jamal Khashoggi, Director of Al-Arab News Channel

• Ian Black, Middle East Editor for the Guardian

Al Fanna
(Al Gassar)

The Plight of Journalists in the Absence of Justice (AJ Human Rights Centre)

The Palestinian Cause and the Prospects for Peace:

• Salma Karmi Ayyoub, British-Palestinian barrister

• Osama Hamdan, Head of the International Relations Department of Hamas

• Abdullah Abdullah, Chair of the Political Committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council

• Mohsen Saleh, Director of Al Zaitouna Center fo Studies

• Susana Khalil, Founder of CANAAN Association in Venezuela

Al Fanna
(Al Gassar)

The UN Plan for the Safety and Security of Journalists: Opportunities and Challenges (AJ Human Rights Department)

Ballroom 1 - 2
(St Regis)

Main Theatre
​(Al Gassar)

The Military and Politics in the Middle East:

• Mohamed Al-Amin Khalifa, retired military officer and political activist in Sudan
• Wathaq al-Hashimi, President of the Iraqi Group for Strategic Studies
• Ayesha Siddiqa, Charles Wallace Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford
• Tareq Al-Zumour, Founder of Building and Development Party in Egypt
• Tewfik Hamel, a researcher in military and defence history Ismail Numan Telci, Deputy Director of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in Sakarya University
• Ismail Numan Telci, Deputy Director of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in Sakarya University

Perspectives on the Yemen Crisis (AJ Centre for Studies)

Amber
(St Regis)

Abalone
(St Regis)

[Starts at 16:00] Geopolitics Animations (AJ Media Training and Development Center)

Media and Social Change (AJ Media Training and Development Center)
 

Ballroom 1-2
(St Regis)

Authoritarianism and the Future of Democracy in the Arab World:

• Rola Dashti, Former Minister of Planning and Development and former Member of Parliament in Kuwait

• Salman Al-Sheikh, Director of Brookings Institute in Doha

• Meherzia Labidi Maïza, Member of the Tunisian Parliament

• Abdel Wahab Badrakhan, journalist and political analyst based in London

• Gamal Heshmat, leading member of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt

• David Hearst, Editor of the Middle East Eye

Ballroom 1-2
(St Regis)