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Rebea Naciri, former president of Collectif 95 Mahreb-Egalité in Morocco
"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; Zainah Anwar, executive director of Sisters of Islam in Malaysia; and Asma Khader, general coordinator of Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan and former Jordanian minister of culture.
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Azar Nafisi, director of the SAIS Dialogue Project
"A Shared Vision for Change: Women and Legislative Reform in Muslim-Majority Societies"
November 17, 2005
Other speakers included Mahnaz Afkhami, Women's Learning Partnership president and Iran's former minister of State for Women’s Affairs; 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 c
ulture; and Rebea Naciri, former president of Collectif 95 Mahreb-Egalité in Morocco.
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Azar Nafisi, SAIS scholar and author of the best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
 "Importance of Reading"
October 25, 2005
Also included Jacki Lyden, National Public Radio correspondent.
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Abolfazl B. Nahidian, founder and imam of the Manassas Mosque
"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 Muhammed H. Faghforry, professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University.
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Yasuhiro Nakasone, former prime minister of Japan
"Postwar Japanese Politics and Current Affairs"
November 19, 2004
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Andrew S. Natsios, the president’s special envoy for Sudan
"SAIS Conflict Managment Program 25th Anniversary Conference: Sudan Panel"
November 30, 2007
Other speakers included Steven Morrison, chair of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Stephen Smith, a professor at Duke University's Department of African and African American Studies.
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Atzo Nicolai, minister for European affairs of the Netherlands
"The Future of Europe and Transatlantic Relations: Reflections on the ‘No Votes’, Islam in Europe and Turkish Accession"
October 5, 2005
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Rolf Nikel, minister for political affairs at the German Embassy
"Parting Ways: The Crisis"
December 14, 2004
Other speakers included Stephen Szabo, professor of European Studies at SAIS, and David Calleo, director of the SAIS European Studies Program.
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Zurab Nogaideli, prime minister of Georgia
"Three Years After the Rose Revolution: Democratic Reform and Regional Challenges"
December 13, 2006
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Niklas Norling, project director at the Silk Road Studies Program
"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; Masood Aziz, political councilor at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington; 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; and Taleh Ziyadov, deputy executive director of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce.
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