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Geneive Abdo, Century Foundation fellow
“Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development: The Cases of Turkey and Morocco”
September 27, 2007
Other speakers included Anthony Chang, deputy director for the International Republican Institute’s Europe Division; Matthew Frumin, a National Democratic Institute senior adviser; and Shadi Hamid (moderator), research director of the Project on Middle East Democracy.
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Abdullah Abdullah, foreign minister of Afghanistan
"Afghanistan’s Political Future: Challenges That Lie Ahead"
September 26, 2005
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Josef Ackerman, Deutsche Bank CEO
W.P. Carey Global Leader Lecture: "Emerging Markets and the Global Financial System: The View of the International Financial Industry"
May 2, 2007
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Mahnaz Afkhami, Women's Learning Partnership president and Iran's former minister of State for Women’s Affairs
"A Shared Vision for Change: Women and Legislative Reform in Muslim-Majority Societies"
November 17, 2005
Other speakers included Azar Nafisi, director of the SAIS Dialogue Project; Zainah Anwar, executive director of Sisters of Islam in Malaysia; Asma Khader, general coordinator of Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan and former Jordanian minister of Culture; and Rebea Naciri, former president of Collectif95 Mahreb-Egalite in Morocco.
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Antoine van Agtmael, founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Emerging Markets Management, L.L.C.  
"The Emerging Markets Century"
February 1, 2007 
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Mohammed Alami, Washington-based Al Jazeera reporter
"Control Room" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
March 7, 2005
Other speakers included Josh Rushing, former Marine Corps captain and Central Command spokesman; Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief and current journalist-in-residence for the SAIS International Reporting Project; and Patrick Theros, former U.S. ambassador to Qatar.
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David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security
"North Korea's Nuclear Future"
February 14, 2007
Other speakers included Joel Wit, a member of the State Department’s negotiating team on the 1994 Agreed Framework.
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David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security
"Biography of a Bomb: Portrait of the Program"
October 24, 2006
Other speakers included Kathryn Weathersby, historian and scholar; Marion Creekmore, author of A Moment in Crisis; David Straub, former State Department Korea country director and SAIS adjunct professor; and Don Oberdorfer (moderator), chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS.
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George Allen, U.S. senator (R-Va.)
"Foreign Policy: A View From Congress"
March 14, 2006
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Michele Alliot-Marie, France's minister of defense
"Facing Security Challenges: Our Shared Responsibility"
March 10, 2005
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Jacques Andreani, former French ambassador to the United States
"Memo to the Next President: Some Thoughts From Friends and Allies"
October 27, 2004
Other speakers included included Chester Crocker, James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University and a SAIS graduate; Edouard Brunner, former Swiss ambassador to the United States; Brian Crowe, former director-general for External and Politico-Military Affairs in the EU Council of Ministers; and Dieter Dettke, Friedrich Ebert Foundation executive director.
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Zainah Anwar, executive director of Sisters of Islam in Malaysia
"A Shared Vision for Change: Women and Legislative Reform in Muslim-Majority Societies"
November 17, 2005
Other speakers included Azar Nafisi, director of the SAIS Dialogue Project; Mahnaz Afkhami, Women's Learning Partnership president and Iran's former minister of State for Women’s Affairs; Asma Khader, general coordinator of Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan and former Jordanian minister of culture; and Rebea Naciri, former president of Collectif 95 Mahreb-Egalité in Morocco.
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Timothy Garton Ash, acclaimed historian and author
"Free World: America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the West"
November 10, 2004
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Ali Aujali, chief of mission for the Libyan Liaison Office in Washington
"U.S.-Libya Relations"
March 24, 2005
Other speakers includes M. Trish Katyoka, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Africa, and David Mack, vice president of the Middle East Institute and former deputy assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
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Masood Aziz, political counselor at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington
"The New Silk Roads: Transport and Trade in the Greater Central Asia"
July 18, 2007
Other speakers included S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute; Aftab Kazi, professor of international and comparative politics at the American University in Bishkek; Abbas Maleki, director general of the Institute for Caspian Studies in Tehran; Niklas Norling, project director at the Silk Road Studies Program; and Taleh Ziyadov, deputy executive director of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce.
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Jihad Azour, Lebanon's minister of finance
"Lebanon's Economic Landscape and Government Medium-Term Reform Program"
April 16, 2007
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