July 22, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – Talking Turkey: What Exactly are Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Ambitions in the Middle East? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdhv8BteHhw&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Dr. Aykan Erdemir - Former Member of the Turkish Parliament and FDD Scholar About this webinar: Last week, the world was stunned to watch Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s move to convert the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque, reversing the 1934 decision by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of […]
July 29, 2020 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Capitol Hill Webinar – Israel’s Northern Border Heats Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M4gSY_iwjM&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Brigadier General (IDF, ret.) Michael Herzog - International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Seth Frantzman - Middle East Affairs Correspondent, The Jerusalem Post About this webinar: On Tuesday, July 21st, a high ranking Hezbollah terrorist official, Ali Kamel Mohsen, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. Following that attack, […]
August 5, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – The Iranian-Chinese Pact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSv8gMwgcDg FEATURING: David P. Goldman - Author of "You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World" (2020) and "How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too" (2011) About this webinar: Earlier this summer, Iran and China signed a joint economic and military pact, clearing the way for billions of dollars to enter […]
August 12, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – The Trump Peace Plan: Aiming Not to Make a Deal, But to Make a Deal Possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJOweZ417F4&lc=UgxQ9IQyfDD0UPUdN2d4AaABAg FEATURING: Douglas J. Feith - Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute and author About this webinar: The Trump Peace plan makes a profound departure from peace plans in the past, all of which have failed, and all of which were met with a continuous pattern of Palestinian intransigence and terrorism. This plan realistically states that […]
August 19, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – Recovering Lebanon from The Ruins of Destruction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTVbUP4bHc&t FEATURING: Tony Badran - Lebanese Expert at Foundation for Defense of Democracies About this webinar: Lebanon which was once called “the Paris of the Middle East” has been suffering from decade upon decade of corruption, mismanagement and hyperinflation. Even before the explosion of August 4th, which rocked the entire city of Beirut, and left […]
August 27, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – A Conversation with Kenneth L. Marcus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkOYkK0jUbo&feature=emb_title FEATURING: Kenneth L. Marcus – Former Assistant Secretary For Civil Rights With The Department of Education About this webinar: This webinar will ask the question, “What is the state of civil rights for Jews, among other minorities, in our nation’s educational institutions?” Kenneth L. Marcus has a long and illustrious history of advocating for the rights […]
September 2, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – The Rapidly Shifting Sand Dunes of the Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1dXV6lAlF0 FEATURING: Mordechai Kedar - Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam About this webinar: Tune into EMET's webinar featuring Dr. Kedar who will examine the recent Israel-UAE deal, the Beirut Port explosion and other dramatic events taking place recently in the Middle East. Mordechai Kedar is the Director […]
September 9, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – The Tectonic Shifting of Forces Within the Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzm2b36Fnmw&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Behnam Ben Taleblu - Senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies Johnnie Moore - Founder and CEO of The KAIROS Company Aykan Erdemir - Senior director of Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Turkey program About this webinar: The new peace accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has brought to […]
September 16, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – Reflections on the Opening Session of the United Nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj1nrefYAco&t=2s FEATURING: Ambassador Richard Schifter - Chairman of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI) About this webinar: As the UN General Assembly opens this week for its 75th Session, we are honored to hear the remarks of Ambassador Richard Schifter, long-term expert on the workings of the United Nations and […]
September 24, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – Systemic Anti-Semitism on College Campuses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsnHwhYxSNI&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Sarah Stern - President and Founder of EMET Dr. Asaf Romirowsky - Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) Alyza Lewin - President and General Counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (“LDB”) Moderated by Lauri B. Regan About this webinar: With anti-Semitism, often […]
September 30, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – The Warming of Relations Between Israel and Some of the Sunni States https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVj1cWrVDvA&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Zuhdi Jasser - Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) Hussein Aboubakr Mansour - Director for Emerging Democratic Voice in the Middle East for EMET Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is the Director for Emerging Democratic Voice in the Middle East for EMET. Hussein is a native Egyptian who tried to […]
October 7, 2020 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – The Increasing Energy and Geopolitical Interests in the Mediterranean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5PMO5QKQrA&t=3s FEATURING: Major General (Res.) Eitan Dangot - President of the Association of Oil and Gas Exploration Industries in Israel Amir Foster - Executive Director of the Association of Oil and Gas Exploration Industries in Israel About this webinar: For decades, the economy and national interests of many Middle Eastern countries has been driven by energy […]
October 14, 2020 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Capitol Hill Webinar – Who is in Control in Lebanon? The Compelling Story of Amer Fakhoury and His Daughters’ Fight for Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptcl0k9_qGM&t FEATURING: Guila Fakhoury, Macy Fakhoury, and Zoya Fakhoury of the Amer Fakhoury Foundation About this webinar: The Amer Fakhoury Foundation's goal is to provide financial and emotional support to families who are victimized by terrorist regimes. Amer Fakhoury was an American citizen who was born in Lebanon. He went back to Beirut to visit […]