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Muhammed H. Faghforry, professor of Islamic studies at The George Washington University
"Reconciliation in the Sunni-Shi'a Communities: Healing the Wounds of Yesterday and Today in Iraq, the Gulf and the Fertile Crescent"    
February 13, 2007
Other speakers included Jamal Barzinji, vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, and Abolfazl B. Nahidian, founder and imam of the Manassas Mosque.
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Douglas L. Faulkner, acting assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy and a SAIS graduate
"Emerging Technologies in the Energy Sector"
April 24, 2006
Other speakers included Kimball C. Chen, chairman and CEO of the Energy Transportation Group, Inc.; Nancie S. Johnson, vice president of DuPont Government Affairs and a SAIS graduate; and David L. Goldwyn (moderator), president of Goldwyn International Strategies, LLC.
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Carla Freeman, associate director of the SAIS China Studies Program
"Burma's Saffron Revolution: Next Steps"
October 11, 2007
Other speakers included Priscilla Clapp, former U.S. charge d'affaires in Burma; Keith Luse, Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior professional staff member; U Bo Hla Tint, the U.S.-based minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma's Office of the Prime Minister; Bridget Welsh, SAIS assistant professor of Southeast Asia Studies; and G. Eugene Martin (moderator), executive director of the USIP Philippines Facilitation Project.
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Christopher Fomunyoh, senior associate for Africa and regional director for Central and West Africa at the National Democratic Institute
"Achieving Peaceful Elections: Lessons Learned From Sierra Leone and Nigeria"
October 9, 2007
Other speakers included Christian Hennemeyer, director of programs for Africa at the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES).
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Jean Francois-Poncet, former French foreign minister
"Do We Still Share Values Across the Atlantic: Changing Societies and Transatlantic Relations"
October 27-28, 2005
Other speakers included Tom Petri, U.S. congressman (R-Wis.) and co-chair of the Congressional French Caucus.
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Chas. W. Freeman Jr., co-chairman of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation and the principal American interpreter for President Nixon’s 1972 historic visit to China
"From Mao to Now"
October 11, 2006
Other speakers included David M. Lampton, director of the SAIS China Studies Program.
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Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia
"Understanding the Middle East"
November 12, 2003
Other speakers included Thomas Lippman, former Washington Post reporter; retired Major General Paul R. Schwartz; and Les Janka, SAIS graduate and president and chair of the Council on American-Saudi Dialogue.
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Matthew Frumin, a National Democratic Institute senior adviser
“Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development: The Cases of Turkey and Morocco”
September 27, 2007
Other speakers included Geneive Abdo, a Century Foundation fellow; Anthony Chang, deputy director for the International Republican Institute’s Europe Division; and Shadi Hamid (moderator), research director of the Project on Middle East Democracy.
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Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program
"Islamic Fundamentalism in Europe: Transatlantic Perspectives"
May 18, 2006
Other speakers included Lorenzo Vidino, a European expert at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and author of Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground for International Jihad; and Daniel Benjamin, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and co-author of The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.
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Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program
"The Changing Alliance in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective" 
December 6, 2004
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Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program
"The Future of Iraq: Beyond the United States Occupation"
September 14, 2004
Other speakers included Eliot Cohen, director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program; Michael Hirsh, Newsweek senior editor; Bruce Hoffman, RAND Corporation Washington Office director; Dan Senor, former chief spokesman for the Coalition Authority in Iraq and senior adviser to Ambassador Paul Bremer; and Richard Wolffe (moderator), Newsweek diplomatic and Washington correspondent.
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Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program
"Nation Building: The Political and Military Factors"
February 11, 2004
Other speakers included David R. Gray, U.S. Army Federal Executive Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and Carl E. Mundy III, U.S. Marine Corps Federal Executive Fellow at The Brookings Institution.
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Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program
"Perspectives on National Security: How Presidential Campaign Politics in 2004 Are Shaping the Global and Domestic Security Debate"
February 4, 2004
Other speakers included Bob Graham, U.S. congressman (D-Fla.); Porter Goss, U.S. congressman (R-Fla.); Michael Isikoff, Newsweek chief investigative reporter; and Daniel Klaidman (moderator), Newsweek Washington bureau chief.
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