The Palestine Center Annual Conference
Tentative Schedule

THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE IRAQ WAR

Welcoming Remarks: Hisham Sharabi, Chairman of the Palestine Center

Panel I: The Bush Administration and the Middle East : Redrawing the Political Map?
Chair: Fouzi El-Asmar, Journalist and Political Analyst

• The Bush Administration and Syria , Fred Lawson, Mills College

• The Iraq Quagmire, Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
• The United States and Saudi Arabia , As'ad AbuKhalil, CSU Stanislaus
• Egypt in the Crossfire, Samer Shehata, Georgetown University

Panel II: The Contemporary American Political Landscape and the Middle East
Chair: Samih Farsoun, American University

• Neoconservative Foreign Policy Ideology, Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
• The Neocons and the Bush Administration's Policy Towards the Middle East Policy Joe Sobran, Columnist
• Evangelical Christians and U.S. Middle East Policy, Don Wagner, North Park University
• Christian Zionism as a Foreign Policy Challenge , Clifford A. Kiracofe, Jr., Virginia Military Institute

Panel III: The Bush Administration and the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Chair: George Hishmeh, Columnist and Journalist

• The Israelization of American Policy , Jason Vest, The Nation
• Competing Agendas: The White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, Phil Wilcox, Foundation for Middle East Peace
• The Road Map and the Geneva Accords: Detour or Contradiction? Dr. Naseer Aruri, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and Marc Ellis, Professor, Baylor University

Panel IV. Congress and the Middle East , Rep. Cynthia McKinney, (D, GA)
Chair: Lama Abu-Odeh, Georgetown University Law Center