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Gaza Ceasefire Deal and the Prospects of Success

January 23 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST

The National Interest Foundation invites you to attend a Zoom event regarding the Gaza ceasefire agreement that was recently reached and the prospects of successful implementation moving forward.

 

Speakers:
Dr. Annelle Sheline, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Khaled Elgindy, Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Sam Husseini, Independent Journalist

 

Moderator:
Khaled Saffuri, National Interest Foundation

 

Disclaimer: NIF events are by email invitation only and are non-transferable. You will receive a confirmation email if you have been successfully added to our event attendee list upon registration. Those who do not receive a confirmation email will not be admitted. Also, please note that when registering for any of our events, all required fields must be properly filled out. We reserve the right to deny entry to those who fail to do so.

 

About our Speakers:

Dr. Annelle Sheline is a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Near Eastern Affairs (DRL/NEA), before resigning in March 2024 in protest over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. She is a senior non-resident fellow at the Arab Center of Washington DC and a non-resident fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. She holds a PhD in political science from George Washington University. She has written for Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic, and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, CBS, and Al Jazeera.

 

Khaled Elgindy is a Middle East analyst and author as well as an adjunct professor in Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of the 2019 book, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump (Brookings Institution Press). Elgindy previously served as director of the Middle East Institute’s Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs from Jan. 2020 until Jan. 2025. From 2010 through 2018, he served as a resident scholar in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Prior to arriving at Brookings, he served as an adviser to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah on permanent status negotiations with Israel from 2004 to 2009, and was a key participant in the Annapolis negotiations of 2007-08.

 

Sam Husseini is an independent journalist now writing at husseini.substack.com. Since October 2023, his work has focused on Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, especially highlighting the possibility of a country invoking the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice, which South Africa did on December 29, 2023, leading to oral arguments. In addition to Palestine, his work has focused on Iraq (in particular the draconian sanctions during the 1990s and falsifications about WMDs used as a pretext for the 2003 invasion), international law, US government refusing to acknowledge Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal, Covid origins, political and media disinformation, and issues of free speech. He has scrutinized and questioned officials, most recently at the State Department. His questioning of a Saudi official during the Arab uprisings in 2011 led to him being suspended from the Press Club (later overturned by the ethics committee). He is also senior analyst at the Institute for Public Accuracy, and the founder of VotePact, which advocates people from the left and right voting in pairs against the establishment duopoly.

 

About our Moderator:

Khaled Saffuri is the Founder and President of the National Interest Foundation (NIF), a nonpartisan think tank and nonprofit organization established in April of 2018 which is focused on bettering relationships between the United States and countries across the globe through the promotion of smarter foreign policy. Mr. Saffuri has previously served as a Principal at Meridian Strategies providing international business and government clients with strategic and public affairs consulting services, and also founded and ran one of the United States’ prominent and most active organizations to represent the Middle East and Muslim-Americans. He has worked for many years with Members of Congress and has testified in front of Congressional Committees, advising them on international issues and leading Congressional delegations to the Middle East. Due to his extensive background and expertise, Mr. Saffuri is a regular contributor to a number of important media outlets in the United States and internationally including CNN, CBS, and BBC, and contributes articles and written publications to outlets such as The Washington Post and The American Conservative.

 

Note: additional speakers may be announced later

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Details

Date:
January 23
Time:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Website:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4LIkcqhFRv2rsCRhDG4Rtw

Venue

Zoom Meeting