US & Muslim World Leaders Answer Student Questions
Please click on the Launch button below to start the Multimedia Interactive in which students from Soliya’s Connect Program direct questions to participants at the US-Islamic World Forum. Once you have launched the Multimedia Interactive, you can see the students’ questions by clicking on the Play button beneath their images. To see the video of the participants’ responses, simply drag the “?” symbol from the student onto the image of the participant whose answer you would like to view.
Soliya is a not-for-profit organization offering the “Connect Program” – a unique cross-cultural education program that enables college students in the US and the Muslim World to communicate in a rich online environment about US-Muslim World relations.
Please choose your connection below to watch the opening address presented by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, on April 10th, 2005 in Arabic. Click here for a transcript of the English translation.
Arabic
The Search for Peace: Third Party Roles in the Middle East Peace Process
Please choose your connection below to watch Mohammad Dahlan, Minister of Civilian Affair of the Palestinian Authority; Richard Holbrooke, former US Ambassador to the UN; and H.E. Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al Thani, the Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar, discuss the Middle East Peace Process. The session was moderated by Ambassador Martin Indyk, Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
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Elections and Their Consequences
Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, discusses democracy in the Muslim World, and J. Scott Carpentar, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor responds. This session is moderated by James Steinberg, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
English
Public Attitudes and the Role of the Media
Professor Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor at the University of Maryland, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, moderates a panel exploring public attitudes in the US and the Muslim World and the role of the media in shaping those attitudes. Panelists include Faisal al Qasim of al Jazeera, Mustapha Hamarneh from the Center for Strategic Studies, Steven Kull of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, and John Zogby of Zogby International.
English
Closing Session
Moderated by Martin Indyk, Hossam Badrawi, Chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee of Egypt, Robert Blackwill, President of Barbour Griffith & Rogers International, and Surin Pitsuwan, former Foreign Minister of Thailand, discuss the future of US-Islamic world relations.
