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SPOTLIGHT: Middle East


Reuters/Nayef Hashlamoun - Palestinians and a tourist watch a televised broadcast in Hebron of US President Obama's speech.

Save to My Portfolio Reactions to President Obama's Speech to the Muslim World

Brookings Institution Experts, June 04, 2009

President Barack Obama delivered a highly anticipated address in Cairo, Egypt on June 4 in an attempt to improve U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Brookings experts offered comments on the President’s speech. Read More

Middle East, Diplomacy, Human Rights, Foreign Policy

SPOTLIGHT: Middle East


Reuters/Jerry Lampen - Palestinian youth prays on street in Mughraqa.

Save to My Portfolio Obama's Egypt Speech: What He Should Say to the Muslim World

Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, June 02, 2009

On June 4, President Obama delivered what was billed as a “major speech to the Muslim world” in Cairo, Egypt. To provide context for this event, the Saban Center at Brookings’ Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World asked leading experts and policy-makers from the United States and the Muslim world to submit commentary on what they hoped to hear from President Obama’s speech. Read More

Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Human Rights, Diplomacy, Islamic World

SPOTLIGHT: Islamic World


Reuters/Asmaa Waguih - An Egyptian couple sits in a public park overlooking old Cairo's mosques.

Save to My Portfolio Obama's Four Cairo Challenges

Stephen R. Grand, May 29, 2009

On June 4, President Obama continued his efforts to improve America’s relations with the Muslim world by delivering a highly anticipated address at Cairo University in Egypt. Stephen Grand analyzed four difficult challenges for the president in order to make this historic address to the world's approximately 1.3 billion Muslims a success. Read More

Islamic World, Diplomacy, Middle East, International Relations

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Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah - The Lebanese singer and Oud player Marcel Khalife performs at the American university in Dubai.

Save to My Portfolio Creative Expression and Its Impact on Society in the Arab World

Friday, March 06, 2009
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

On March 6, the Saban Center at Brookings’ Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, in conjunction with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, hosted a panel discussion on contemporary creative expression and its impact on Arab society, with a conversation that ranged from the role of literature, poetry and music, to the relationship between art and state sponsorship, to the differences in creative expression from Morocco to the Persian Gulf. Read More

Islamic World, Middle East, Diplomacy

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Arts and Culture in the U.S.-Muslim World Relationship

Cynthia P. Schneider, Kristina Nelson, June 2008

Cynthia Schneider and Kristina Nelson explore the capacity of arts and culture to move and persuade audiences as well as to shape and reveal identities. Their research indicates there is a hunger, in both those in the United States and those in the Muslim world, to understand each others culture, and they offer numerous recommendations to resolve misunderstandings. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Building a Knowledge Society in the Arab World

Kristin M. Lord, April 2008

"Arab nations share a history of remarkable intellectual and scientific achievement,” writes Kristin Lord, “yet as a group, these 22 countries lag behind other regions—and their own potential—in educational achievement, scientific advances, and economic growth.” Drawing on the insights of a distinguished panel of experts from the Arab world, Lord assesses what has happened in the five years since the UNDP’s Arab Human Development Report 2003. Read More

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Save to My Portfolio Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

Tuesday, October 07, 2008
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Washington, DC

The Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World was pleased to host Ahmed Rashid, journalist and best-selling author of Descent Into Chaos. A correspondent for both the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Daily Telegraph and author of Taliban and Jihad, Rashid argued that Afghanistan presents a greater security risk to the international community than the Middle East. Read More

Past Event

Save to My Portfolio New Directions: The Opportunities and Challenges Ahead in the U.S.-Muslim World Relationship

Saturday, February 16, 2008
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Doha, Qatar

The 2008 U.S.-Islamic World Forum, held from February 16-18, 2008, in Doha, Qatar, was an immense success, bringing together key leaders in the fields of politics, business, media, academia, and civil society from across the Muslim world and the United States. Now in its fifth year, the forum has become the foremost meeting for positive cross-cultural engagement among leaders from the United States and the Muslim world. Read More

About Us

The Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World is a major research project, housed under the auspices of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. It is designed to respond to some of the profound questions that the terrorist attacks of September 11th have raised for U.S. policy.

Recent Research and Commentary

Middle East Thoughts on President Obama's Cairo Speech

Mirette F. Mabrouk, June 05, 2009

Middle East Reactions to President Obama's Speech to the Muslim World

Brookings Institution Experts, June 04, 2009

Middle East Reflections on President Obama's Egypt Speech

Stephen R. Grand, June 04, 2009

Middle East Obama's Egypt Speech: What He Said to the Muslim World

Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, June 04, 2009

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