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Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
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Tamara Cofman Wittes is a senior fellow and the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. Wittes served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs from November of 2009 to January 2012, coordinating U.S. policy on democracy and human rights in the Middle East for the State Department. Wittes also oversaw the Middle East Partnership Initiative and served as deputy special coordinator for Middle East transitions. She was central to organizing the U.S. government's response to the Arab awakening. Wittes is the author of Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy (Brookings Press, 2008). | View Full Bio
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April 30, 2013
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March 1, 2013
Testimony | House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa
February 26, 2013
February 19, 2013
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The fate of Egypt will be tremendously influential for the fate of the region. For Obama, for the U.S., [Egypt is] where the stakes are. February 10, 2013, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Christian Science Monitor
The fate of Egypt will be tremendously influential for the fate of the region. For Obama, for the U.S., [Egypt is] where the stakes are.
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RT @BrookingsFP: .@Doranimated re Syria: Cant remember another time when US so noticeably absent from major issue in ME intl politics: http://t.co/LL87y2vyNT
May 08
#Egypt govt & #FJP heard concerns on draft #NGO law fr domestic orgs, human rts experts, & other govts - & ignores them all. "Consultation"?
#Egypt's top rights grp says draft #NGO law doesn't "comply with Egypt’s commitments under international law." http://t.co/U05n365wK0
#Egypt's top human rights grp on draft #NGO law: "the draft law does not meet international standards for freedom of association..." more
Black is white, down is up, & #Egypt govt's draft NGO law supports indep civil society & freedom of assoc. Orwellian. http://t.co/0PxsclDD7B
RT @BrookingsFP: .@MaloneySuzanne: Israeli air strikes in Syria interpreted as msg to Tehran...What's interesting is Tehran response: http://t.co/LL87y2vyNT
RT @AlOraibi: @tcwittes @denisfitz Or a first step to yet another international conference, swanky hotels and some one-liner media statements?
@AlOraibi @denisfitz A first step forward toward Brahimi not resigning?
RT @AlOraibi: After all this, and still at 1st step? RT: @denisfitz Brahimi: "Statements made in Moscow constitute a very significant first step forward"
Corporatism underway by #Morsi & #MB RT @tradwan President to oversee government think tank-Daily News #Egypt http://t.co/fC18VwWBLe
RT @Yair_Rosenberg: Heard Stephen Hawking is boycotting an Israeli conference? Totally false says his spokesperson http://t.co/7biOBL9SGJ http://t.co/MNenE1bzHs
RT @BrookingsEcon: So not everyone should go to college? A new policy brief from @isawhill and @StephOwen213 http://t.co/G82XsjMTdX
RT @jackshafer: MT @thehighsign: Google Doodle, a tribute to Saul Bass title sequences, is crazy elaborate & stylish....
Wish u could join a conversation on #Israel #Syria around the halls @brookings? READ me & others talkin shop: http://t.co/nQuaz4IuHI
Wish u could join a conversation on #Israel #Syria around the halls @brookings? READ me & others talkin shop: http://t.co/gofpMNPb5S
READ #SabanCenter arguing #Israel #Syria w me, @natansachs @dbyman @Doranimated @MaloneySuzanne @Salman_Shaikh1 http://t.co/mGdUPDuatd
May 07
RT @ghazalairshad: Sorry to burst your Arab/Muslim reductionist bubble, but The Man Too Sexy for Saudi..wasn't. Debunked by @SanaSaeed: http://t.co/cIb1TGm6BZ
RT @natansachs: Israel's Three Gambles @dbyman & my reax to #Israeli strikes in #Syria @ForeignPolicy @BrookingsFP http://t.co/LVuFc0oY99
It's just business... MT @glcarlstrom: souring romance btw Egypt & Qatar: @RebelEconomy on latest round of aid talks. http://t.co/ByAqC7YkJS
@abumuqawama it's about damn time to. Military=part of society. We understand sex assault in society. It's impunity we fight against.
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