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Frank Gaffney, a former
deputy assistant secretary of defense for international
security policy, is founder and president of the Center for
Security Policy in Washington, a think tank known for its
focus on the weak links in the security chain. Under his
leadership, the Center has become widely recognized as a
resource for its timely, informed, and penetrating analyses.
Mr. Gaffney is also a contributing editor to National
Review Online, and a columnist for FrontPageMag.com,
JewishWorldReview.com, and TownHall.com. He spoke to the
Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on September 22, 2004.
Daniel Mandel is an associate
director of the Middle East Forum. He earned his PhD from
the University of Melbourne (Australia), where he is also a
fellow. His articles have appeared in Australian and U.S.
publications, including the Middle East Quarterly. He
is the author of H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of
Israel: The Undercover Zionist (London: Routledge,
2004). He addressed the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on
June 15, 2004.
Michael Ledeen, an expert on
U.S. foreign policy, is the Freedom Scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He holds a
PhD from the University of Wisconsin and his commentary
regularly appears in the National Review, the Wall
Street Journal and the New York Post. The author
of fifteen books, his latest one, The War against the
Terror Masters: How it Happened, Where We Are Now, How We'll
Win (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002), explains the
key priorities he sees for the United States. He addressed
the Middle East Forum in New York on May 20, 2004.
An investigative reporter,
Kenneth Timmerman has written for Time, Newsweek, The
Wall Street Journal, Insight Magazine, and Reader's
Digest. His books include the best-selling Shakedown:
Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson (Washington, D.C:
Regnery Publishing; 2002). Since 1987, Mr. Timmerman has
operated Middle East Data Project, Inc., a small business
that provides investigative support and policy guidance to
government agencies and private companies on three
continents. He helped establish the Foundation for Democracy
in Iran (FDI) in 1996, which helps keep Congress and the
public informed of the ongoing repression and support for
terrorism by Iran's leadership. He addressed the Middle East
Forum in Philadelphia on April 21, 2004.
Daniel Pipes is director of
the Middle East Forum, a member of the
presidentially-appointed board of the U.S. Institute of
Peace, and a prize-winning columnist for the New York Sun
and the Jerusalem Post. The author of 14 books, his
most recent, Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle
Eastern Politics (Transaction Publishers) appeared in
late 2003. His website DanielPipes.org, is the single most
accessed source of information specifically on the Middle
East and Islam. He addressed the Middle East Forum in New
York on March 23, 2004.
David Frum, a former
presidential speechwriter who coined the "axis of evil"
phrase, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research and a contributing
editor at the Weekly Standard. He is the author of
The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush
(New York: Random House, 2003) and other books. He spoke to
the Middle East Forum in New York and Philadelphia on
February 17, 2004.
David Aufhauser served as the
U.S. Treasury's chief legal advisor and senior policy
advisor to the secretary. He regularly testified before
Congress and oversaw its economic sanctions program,
financial crime investigations, and USA Patriot Act
regulatory responsibilities. Prior to his post at the
Department of the Treasury he practiced law for over 20
years in Washington D.C. with the firm of Williams &
Connoly, LLP. He spoke to the Middle East Forum in New York
on December 11, 2003.
Professor Efraim Karsh is the
Director of Mediterranean Studies at King's College,
University of London. He has held academic posts at the
Sorbonne, the London School of Economics, Columbia
University, Tel-Aviv University, and Harvard University.
Professor Karsh is a regular commentator on current events
who often appears in the media in the United States and
United Kingdom. He has been published in many periodicals
including the Middle East Quarterly. He spoke to the
Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on December 2, 2003.
Ilka Schröder, a 21-year old
activist in Germany's Green party at the time of her
election to the European Parliament in 1999, has
distinguished herself during the past four years as an
ardent pacifist. While her advocacy of nonviolence has at
times been controversial (she resigned from the Green party
after it expressed support for possible U.S. military action
in Afghanistan), it has always been uncompromising. In
recognition of her tireless efforts to reverse the EU’s
encouragement of terrorist violence in the Middle East, in
September 2003 Schröder was awarded the Theodore Lessing
Prize for Exemplary Action. She addressed the Middle East
Forum in New York on October 30, 2003, and Philadelphia on
October 31, 2003.
Lt. Col. Scott Rutter is a
distinguished military graduate in 1983 of Campbell
University, where he received a BA in history. After his
commission as a second lieutenant in the army, he served as
a platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division and
graduated from the Infantry Officers Advanced Course. He
served as a rifle company commander during the 1991 Gulf
War, earning a Bronze Star for valor. In 1993, he was
selected to serve as an instructor for the infantry
officer's advance course, where he rose to become chief of
tactics. He was appointed commander of the 2-7 Infantry in
October 2000. He spoke to the Middle East Forum in
Philadelphia on November 20, 2003.
Rachel Ehrenfeld, PhD,
director of the New York-based American Center for
Democracy, is an expert on transnational organized crime,
international terrorism, drug trafficking, and corruption.
She has served as a research scholar at New York University
School of Law, a visiting scholar at the Columbia University
Institute of War and Peace Studies, and a fellow at Johns
Hopkins's School of Advanced International Studies. She is
the author of Evil Money, Narco-Terrorism, and the
newly released Funding Evil. She spoke to the Middle
East Forum in Philadelphia on September 19, 2003 and New
York on September 23, 2003.
Gary Gambill is the editor of
the Middle
East Intelligence Bulletin, and a research associate
at the Middle East Forum as well as a consultant to Freedom
House. His professional expertise focuses on Syrian and
Lebanese politics, state sponsorship of international
terrorism, and authoritarianism across the Arab world. He
spoke to the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on May 13,
2003.
Dr. Hanson received his Ph.D.
in Classics from Stanford University and is currently
professor of classics at California State University,
Fresno. He has written or edited eleven books, including
The Western Way of War, The Soul of Battle, and
Carnage and Culture. His most recent book is An
Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and
the War on Terrorism. He spoke to the Middle East Forum
in Philadelphia on February 26, 2003, and New York on May 6,
2003.
Jonathan Schanzer, an expert
on terrorist groups, has written extensively on Palestinian
politics, al-Qaeda affiliated groups in the Arab world,
areas of weak central authority in the Middle East, and the
"Arab Street." He received his MA in Middle East Studies at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he focused on
fundamentalist Islamic movements. He has worked for CNN, the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Truman Institute at
Hebrew University, and the Consulate General of Israel in
Atlanta. He spoke to the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia
on April 21, 2003.
Dore Gold, president of the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Israel's former
ambassador to the United Nations in New York, shows how
Saudi Arabia's links to global terrorism extend far beyond
Al-Qaeda to include royal funding for such organizations as
Hamas. He spoke to the Middle East Forum in New York on
April 4, 2003.
Last July, then-RAND
Corporation analyst Laurent Murawiec argued before the
Pentagon's Defense Policy Board that Saudi Arabia is "active
at every level of the terror chain, from planners to
financiers, from cadre to foot soldier, from ideologist to
cheerleaders." After details of the briefing were leaked to
the Washington Post, the Saudis cried foul and
Murawiec's comments were repudiated by the Bush
administration. As elements in the foreign policy
establishment linked to energy corporations mobilized,
Murawiec was pressured to leave RAND. Mr. Murawiec spoke to
the Middle East Forum in New York on November 19, 2002, and
Philadelphia on March 4, 2003.
Stephen Schwartz, author and
journalist, has reported on religious affairs in the Balkans
and other areas around the world. He has worked for the
San Francisco Chronicle, the Forward, Voice of
America, and is currently a senior policy analyst at the
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington,
D.C. Mr. Schwartz spoke to the Middle East Forum in New York
on February 27, 2003.
Eyal Zisser, a senior
research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center of Tel Aviv
University, brought startling implications to light in a
recent Middle East Quarterly article, where he showed
that, after two-and-a-half years of relative calm in south
Lebanon, Hizbullah has become both more committed to, and
more capable of, pursuing Israel's destruction than ever
before. Dr. Zisser addressed the Middle East Forum in New
York on November 26, 2002.
On a recent trip to Israel,
U.S. Representative Joseph M. Hoeffel reviewed
incontrovertible evidence linking Palestinian Authority (PA)
Chairman Yasir Arafat to terrorism. He saw documents and he
saw weapons - mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank
missiles and suicide belts (all barred by the Oslo Accords).
The congressman concluded that Israel's recent
counteroffensive into the West Bank was both justified
morally and necessary for Israel's security. He spoke to the
Middle East Forum in Philadelphia on June 3, 2002.
Michael Oren is a senior
fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He has served as
director of Israel's Department of Inter-Religious Affairs
and as advisor to Israel's delegation to the United Nations.
He has a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has written
extensively on Arab-Israeli affairs, notably on the USS
Liberty affair. He spoke to the Middle East Forum in
Philadelphia on May 7, 2002.
Anthony Lake, assistant to
former President Clinton on National Security Affairs from
1993 to 1997, is currently professor of diplomacy at
Georgetown University. With a BA from Harvard University and
a PhD from Princeton University, Mr. Lake served for eight
years an official in the State Department, including a stint
as director of Policy Planning under President Carter. He
has written six books on foreign affairs including Six
Nightmares: Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How the
U.S. Can Meet Them (Little Brown, 2000). Mr. Lake spoke
to the Middle East Forum in an event co-sponsored by the
U.S. Fund for UNICEF about America’s challenges in the war
on terror on March 21, 2002
In 1996, The New York
Times established a new Istanbul bureau to provide
readers with insight into Turkey, a newly-vital country; it
asked Steven Kinzer to head the bureau. Mr. Kinzer lived in
Turkey until 2000 and has since published a critically
acclaimed book, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two
Worlds. Prior to his stint in Istanbul, Mr. Kinzer
served as chief of the Times bureaus in Germany and
Nicaragua. The author of three books, he is now a national
correspondent for The New York Times based in
Chicago. He spoke to the Middle East Forum in New York on
October 16, 2001.
Gershom Gorenberg is the
author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the
Struggle for the Temple Mount (Free Press, 2000). Mr.
Gorenberg, a foremost expert on the Temple Mount, is senior
editor and columnist for The Jerusalem Report, where
he also writes on political and religious issues. In
addition, he is a regular contributor to The New Republic,
and an associate of the Center for Millennial Studies at
Boston University. He was a co-author of Shalom, Friend:
The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which won the
National Jewish Book Award. American-born, Mr. Gorenberg has
degrees from the University of California and the Hebrew
University. He spoke to the Middle East Forum in
Philadelphia on May 2, 2001.
Dr. Khidhir Hamza is the
highest-ranking Iraqi scientist ever to defect from Iraq and
live to tell about it. After earning a Ph.D. in nuclear
physics from Florida State in 1968, he joined the Iraqi
nuclear effort in 1972 and rapidly ascended through the
ranks. In 1987, he became Director General of Saddam
Husayn's nuclear program. Disillusioned with Saddam, in
August 1994, Dr. Hamza escaped through Iraq's northern
border and defected to the United States. He, together with
Jeff Stein, authored Saddam's Bombmaker (Scribner's 2000).
Dr. Hamza spoke to the Middle East Forum in New York on
April 2, 2001.
R. James Woolsey was director
of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during the Clinton
administration from 1993-95. He has degrees from Stanford,
Oxford, and Yale, and is a prominent analyst on foreign
affairs, defense, energy, and intelligence issues. He is a
partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington,
D.C., where he has practiced steadily (except for four
stints of government service) since 1973. Mr. Woolsey served
as undersecretary of the U.S. Navy and General Counsel to
the U.S. Committee on Armed Services. He addressed the
Middle East Forum in New York on March 7, 2001.
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