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SUMMARY:Syria Sanctions: The Caesar Act One Year Later
DESCRIPTION:The National Interest Foundation invites you to attend our lunch discussion regarding the one-year anniversary of the Caesar Act sanctions against the Syrian regime. \n  \nSpeakers \nColonel Joel Rayburn\, Former Special Envoy for Syria\, current Special Advisor for Middle East affairs to U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN)\, previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Levant Affairs and before that as Senior Director for Iran\, Iraq\, Syria\, and Lebanon at the National Security Council\, retired U.S. Army officer who served in a variety of assignments in the Middle East\, Europe\, and the United States from 1992 to 2018. \nAyman Abdelnour\, President of Syrian Christians for Peace\, editor-in-chief of All4Syria (Syria’s leading independent news outlet)\, has testified before the European Parliament and been widely quoted in major publications including the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, CNN.com\, MSNBC.com\, USA Today\, Christian Science Monitor\, Time.com\, FOX\, Reuters\, the Financial Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Bloomberg\, Le Monde\, Le Figaro\, and BBC News. \nErich Ferrari\, Esq.\, Principal of Ferrari & Associates\, represents financial institutions\, multi-national corporations\, and individuals in matters involving U.S. economic sanctions administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”)\, has written and lectured widely on all aspects of U.S. sanctions law. \nShahroo Yazdani\, Esq.\, Trade professional specializing in international import and export regulations\, specializes in all matters relating to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)\, specialized in European and International Trade Law while contributing to human rights work with Senator Lincoln Diaz Balart on Capitol Hill. \n  \nModerator \nHamdi Rifai\, Executive Director at the Council of United Syrians & Americans\, government affairs specialist focused on foreign policy between the United States\, Eurasia\, and the Middle East\, expert analyst on international affairs\, national security\, and legal issues who frequently appears on Fox News\, Al-Hurra\, Al-Jazeera\, the BBC\, and TRT. \n  \nAbout our Speakers:  \nColonel Joel Rayburn is the former Special Envoy for Syria and is currently Special Advisor for Middle East affairs to United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN). He previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Levant Affairs and before that as Senior Director for Iran\, Iraq\, Syria\, and Lebanon at the National Security Council from January 2017 to July 2018. Rayburn is a retired U.S. Army officer who served in a variety of assignments in the Middle East\, Europe\, and the United States from 1992 to 2018. He also taught history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and is the author of several books and articles on the Iraq War. He was commissioned into the Army after graduating from West Point in 1992 and holds a master’s degree in History from Texas A&M University and in National Security Studies from the National War College. He is originally from Oklahoma City\, Oklahoma. \nAyman Abdelnour is a noted Syrian reformist\, the editor-in-chief of All4Syria (Syria’s leading independent news outlet)\, and the president of the non-profit Syrian Christians for Peace. Ayman is trained as an engineer and economist. He has testified in front of the European Parliament and received numerous awards. Mr. Abdelnour has provided consulting services on Middle East public policy to a variety of international organizations (such as UN and EU) and has been widely quoted in some of the most important publications in the international media\, including the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, CNN.com\, MSNBC.com\, USA Today\, Christian Science Monitor\, Time.com\, FOX\, Reuters\, the Financial Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Bloomberg\, Le Monde\, Le Figaro\, and BBC News. He has lectured widely at prestigious universities\, including Columbia University’s Middle East Institute at the School of International and Public Affairs in New York\, Tufts University Cabot Intercultural Center\, Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)\, Yale University\, and the University of California\, Los Angeles International Institute Center for Middle East Development. \nErich Ferrari\, Esq. is the Principal of Ferrari & Associates in Washington\, D.C. Mr. Ferrari represents financial institutions\, multi-national corporations\, and individuals in matters involving U.S. economic sanctions administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). His work focuses on advising clients on how to navigate and comply with authorities administered by OFAC\, seek license authorizations from OFAC for clients seeking to engage in otherwise prohibited transactions\, and representing parties in pending OFAC enforcement matters. Mr. Ferrari is also known as one of the foremost experts on the OFAC delisting process and in bringing court challenges seeking judicial review of OFAC actions. Mr. Ferrari has written and lectured widely on all aspects of U.S. sanctions law. He writes extensively on such matters on his blog: www.sanctionlaw.com. \nShahroo Yazdani\, Esq. is a trade professional specializing in international import and export regulations. Shahroo started her career at a boutique DC law firm where she specialized in sanctions law. She then moved to Amazon and most recently to Amazon’s subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS)\, where she focused on import and export laws and international regulations. With a passion for trade law\, Shahroo specializes in all matters relating to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) including but not limited to: advising on OFAC and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance\, building out corporate compliance programs\, assisting with civil forfeitures\, OFAC whistleblowing\, and de-listing procedures. Shahroo is a Maryland native and attended the University of Maryland\, College Park. She continued her education at American University’s Washington College of Law and Université Paris Nanterre where she specialized in European and International Trade Law while contributing to human rights work with Senator Lincoln Diaz Balart on Capitol Hill. After finishing law school\, Shahroo worked on various human rights projects including at the World Bank as a consultant on the potential cultural rights implications of a Chinese mining project in Afghanistan. \n  \nAbout our Moderator:  \nHamdi Rifai is the Executive Director at the Council of United Syrians & Americans. Mr. Rifai is a government affairs specialist focused on foreign policy between the United States\, Eurasia\, and the Middle East. He has appeared frequently throughout the years as an expert analyst on international affairs\, national security\, and legal issues on Fox News\, Al-Hurra\, Al-Jazeera\, the BBC\, and TRT. \n  \nDisclaimer: 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 for those who fail to do so\, i.e. inputting NA in the “organization” or “job title” section. NIF events are by email invitation only and are non-transferable. \nNote: additional speakers may be announced later.
URL:https://nifusa.org/event-2/syria-sanctions-the-caesar-act-one-year-later/
LOCATION:National Interest Foundation\, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue NW\, Suite 7000\, Washington\, DC\, 20006\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Decade into the Syrian Revolution: Crisis in Idlib
DESCRIPTION:The National Interest Foundation invites you to attend our lunch discussion regarding the latest developments in Idlib as the Syrian revolution nears its decade-long milestone. \n  \nSpeakers\n  \nHassan Hassan\, Center for Global Policy\nCharles Lister\, Middle East Institute\nJennifer Cafarella\, Institute for the Study of War\n  \nModerator\n  \nHamdi Rifai\, Council of United Syrians & Americans\n  \nAbout our Speakers:  \n  \nHassan Hassan is a director of the Non-state Actors and Geopolitics program at the Center for Global Policy. His research focuses on militant movements\, nonviolent extremism\, and geopolitics in the Middle East. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic\, Foreign Policy and The Guardian. He is the author\, with Michael Weiss\, of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror. His internationally acclaimed 2015 book was a New York Times bestseller\, and was selected as one of the Times of London’s best books of 2015 and as one of the Wall Street Journal’s top 10 books on terrorism. The book was translated into more than a dozen foreign languages. He testified before Congress on extremism\, and has frequently advised senior policymakers in the United States\, Europe\, and the Middle East. He frequently conducts training courses for military personnel and diplomats specializing or operating in the Middle East\, on subjects such as tribes and Salafi-jihadism. \nA native of eastern Syria\, Hassan received a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Nottingham. He is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy in Washington DC. He was previously an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Program in London and a research associate at the Delma Institute in the United Arab Emirates. From 2008 to 2014\, he worked on the news and commentary sections at The National\, an English-language daily newspaper in the UAE. Hassan has written extensively on Sunni and Shia movements\, society\, and politics in the Middle East for numerous publications\, including the Guardian\, Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\, the New York Times\, Financial Times\, the Daily Beast\, The National. \n  \nCharles Lister is a senior fellow and Director of the Countering Terrorism and Extremism Program at the Middle East Institute. His work focuses primarily on the conflict in Syria\, including as a member of the MEI-convened Syria Study Group; and on issues of terrorism and insurgency across the Levant. Prior to this\, Lister was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Qatar and a Senior Consultant to the multinationally-backed Syria Track II Dialogue Initiative\, where he managed nearly three years of intensive face-to-face engagement with the leaderships of over 100 Syrian armed opposition groups. \nLister is a frequent source of briefings on the Syrian insurgency to political\, military and intelligence leaderships in the United States and across Europe and the Middle East. He appears regularly on television media\, including CNN\, BBC and Al-Jazeera\, and his articles have been widely published in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, BBC\, CNN\, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy\, among others. Lister has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution and as head of MENA at IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London\, UK. Lister’s critically-acclaimed book\, The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda\, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency\, was published in February 2016 by Oxford University Press. He also published The Islamic State: A Brief Introduction (Brookings Press\, 2015) and he is now working on a third book on Syria\, commissioned by Oxford University Press. \n  \nJennifer Cafarella is the Research Director at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). She is responsible for setting the organization’s research priorities and overseeing their execution by ISW’s team of open source intelligence analysts. Ms. Cafarella is also responsible for leading ISW’s simulation exercises as well as its efforts to develop detailed recommendations on how to achieve U.S. objectives abroad. Ms. Cafarella has conducted such exercises for various U.S. military units deploying overseas. In 2015\, she participated in a multi-week assessment mission in the Middle East focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Syria at the invitation of senior U.S. Army commanders. She regularly briefs military units preparing to deploy on a range of subjects including Syria\, ISIS\, and Russia. \nMs. Cafarella led ISW’s Syria team from 2014-2017 before becoming ISW’s Director of Intelligence Planning from 2018-2019. She is a graduate of ISW’s Hertog War Studies Program and was the Institute’s first Evans Hanson Fellow\, which sponsors outstanding alumni of the War Studies Program and seeks to help build the next generation of national security leaders. Ms. Cafarella received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Global Studies with a focus on the Middle East. Ms. Cafarella has written extensively on Syria\, Iraq\, Al Qaeda\, and ISIS. Her essays have been published by Foreign Affairs\, The Hill\, and Fox News\, among other outlets. She has appeared extensively in the media\, including on C-SPAN\, CNN\, Fox News\, and others. Her analysis has been cited widely in print media including by The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, Newsweek\, CNN\, NPR\, Voice of America\, the BBC\, and USA Today. \n  \nAbout our Moderator:  \n  \nHamdi Rifai is the Executive Director at the Council of United Syrians & Americans. He started his work in Government Relations as early as 1991 when he advocated for the easing of sanctions against Iraq. The Arab American Medical Association needed medicines to reach people suffering under Saddam Hussein. His work in government relations advocacy has continued since the early 90’s representing many Middle East interests and governments. His advocacy has both utilized his legal training and certification in legislative advocacy. Mr. Rifai has served as Deputy Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. He chaired a congressional campaign for the always hotly contested 5th district of Bergen County\, New Jersey. When Bret Schundler ran for Governor Mr. Rifai formed the Lawyer’s Committee that gave Schundler his primary victory. Mr. Rifai has engaged in extensive Rule of Law and institution building work. He has escorted journalists to meet with Kuwait’s parliament on one end of the spectrum to his focus today of working for a free Syria. \nSince 2011\, Mr. Rifai has directed the work of Arab Americans for Democracy in Syria and it’s successor the Council of United Syrians & Americans. He was instrumental in persuading the US to close the Syrian embassy of Washington\, DC and then also to prosecute sanctions violators. He has worked to promote civil society and the Interim Syrian Government. Mr. Rifai has advised on institution building and governance. He has been instrumental in getting real news with real facts into the media stream. As a former trial lawyer he is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a Juris Doctor from Loyola University. He is certified by the Notre Dame University Institute for Trial Advocacy as a trial attorney and by the Public Law Center in legislative advocacy/government relations. He has appeared frequently throughout the years as an expert analyst on foreign affairs\, national security and legal issues on Fox News\, Al-Hurra\, Al-Jazeera\, the BBC and TRT. \n  \nDisclaimer: 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 for those who fail to do so\, i.e. inputting NA in the “organization” or “job title” section. NIF events are by email invitation only and are non-transferable.
URL:https://nifusa.org/event-2/a-decade-into-the-syrian-revolution-crisis-in-idlib/
LOCATION:National Interest Foundation\, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue NW\, Suite 7000\, Washington\, DC\, 20006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Perspective on the Trump Mideast Peace Plan
DESCRIPTION:The National Interest Foundation invites you to attend our lunch discussion regarding the recently proposed Trump Mideast Peace Plan.\n  \nAbout our Speakers: \n  \nDr. Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development and Director of the Critical Issues Poll at the University of Maryland. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to the University of Maryland\, he taught at several universities\, including Cornell University\, the Ohio State University\, the University of Southern California\, Princeton University\, Columbia University\, Swarthmore College\, and the University of California at Berkeley\, where he received his doctorate in political science. \nProfessor Telhami has also been active in the foreign policy arena\, advising every U.S. administration from George H. W. Bush to Barack Obama. He has contributed to The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and regularly appears on national and international radio and television. Among his publications are his best-selling book\, The Stakes: America and the Middle East (2003); Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (1990); The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace\, 1989-2011\, co-authored with Dan Kurtzer\, et al. (2013); and The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East (2013). He is the winner of a number of awards including being selected by the Carnegie Corporation of New York with The New York Times as one of the “Great Immigrants” for 2013 and being selected as a University of Maryland 2018-2019 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. \n  \nKhaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute where he also directs MEI’s Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He is the author of the newly-released book\, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians\, from Balfour to Trump\, published by Brookings Institution Press in April 2019. Elgindy previously served as a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution from 2010 through 2018. 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. Elgindy is also an adjunct instructor in Arab Studies at Georgetown University. \nKhaled’s writings have a appeared in wide range of publications\, including The Christian Science Monitor\, CNN.com\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, The Los Angeles Times\, The National Interest\, The Washington Quarterly\, and others. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Hill\, Politico\, and other print media\, and is a regular commentator on TV and radio\, including Aljazeera\, BBC\, CNN\, Fox News\, MSNBC\, NPR\, PBS Newshour and others. \n  \nSaid Arikat is a long time Washington based Palestinian journalist and analyst. He is an accomplished media and public affairs specialist who served for a number of years as the United Nations’ chief spokesman in Iraq. He holds an MS from California State University\, in Long Beach\, CA and is an adjunct professor at the American University in Washington where he teaches a course on role of media in society. He regularly appears on various media outlets both domestically and internationally. \n  \nAbout our Moderator:  \n  \nKelley Beaucar Vlahos is Executive Editor at The American Conservative magazine\, where she has been writing and reporting for the last decade\, focusing on national security\, foreign policy\, civil liberties and domestic politics. She served for 15 years as a Washington bureau reporter for FoxNews.com\, and at WTOP News in Washington from 2013-2017 as a writer\, digital editor and social media strategist. She has also worked as a beat reporter at Bridge News financial wire (now part of Reuters) and Homeland Security Today\, and as a regular contributor at Antiwar.com.
URL:https://nifusa.org/event-2/perspective-on-the-trump-mideast-peace-plan/
LOCATION:National Interest Foundation\, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue NW\, Suite 7000\, Washington\, DC\, 20006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Libya: What Does the Berlin Conference Have in Store?
DESCRIPTION:In the coming months\, perhaps weeks\, Germany plans to hold a UN-backed international conference on the future of Libya. Despite two previous European conferences on Libya in the last year\, one in Palermo and another in Paris\, warlord Khalifa Haftar and his allies continue to use military means to capture power in Libya. Regional players including France\, Italy\, UAE\, Russia\, and Turkey have exhausted the country’s ability to sustain its political stability. With the absence of a clear US role in Libya and a stagnant UN Mission\, Libya continues to be a troubled backyard for Europe. \nSince April 4th\, the Libyan Arab Forces led by warlord Khalifa Haftar have continued their brutal and unsuccessful offensive on the Libyan capital Tripoli. This military campaign has targeted dozens of civilian establishments\, including migrant detention centers\, leaving thousands of people dead and over 100 thousand others internally displaced. \nHow do European actors interact in post-Gaddafi Libya\, and what is the nature of German engagement in Libya? What can Germany offer the Libyan people and peace process\, and what are the expected deliverables of this significant conference? \nOn November 12th\, the Libyan American Alliance and the National Interest Foundation will hold an expert discussion on these competing dynamics and the upcoming Berlin conference on Libya. Questions from the audience will follow the panelists’ brief statements. Lunch will be served. \n  \nAbout our Speakers:  \nDario Cristiani is the IAI/GMF Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States\, based in Washington\, D.C.\, working on Italian foreign policy\, the Mediterranean\, and global politics. A native of Naples\, Italy\, he has more than fifteen years of experience as a private political risk consultant\, working on Mediterranean and emerging markets. He received his Ph.D. in Middle East and Mediterranean studies from King’s College London in 2015\, and he got a BA and MA (with distinctions) from the University of Naples L’Orientale\, where he also started his academic career as a teaching and e-learning assistant in political science and comparative politics. He has been the director of executive training in global risk analysis and crisis management and an adjunct professor in international affairs and conflict studies at Vesalius College in Brussels. He continues teaching as a guest lecturer in several institutions in Europe and the Maghreb (Koninklijke Militaire School\, Istituto Alti Studi Difesa\, Sit Tunis). He has lived in Tunisia\, Turkey\, Belgium\, and the United Kingdom. \nDr. William Lawrence has thirty-two years experience working on the MENA region and wider Muslim world and lived immersively for thirteen years in seven Muslim majority countries. Since 2011\, he has served successively as International Crisis Group’s North Africa Project Director\, as the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy’s Middle East and North Africa Program Director\, and as Control Risk’s Middle East and North Africa Associate Director. Previously\, he served as Senior Advisor for Global Engagement in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES)\, working closely with the White House on core Obama administration Cairo-speech-related initiatives. He co-created the Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (GIST) Program\, the U.S. Science Envoy Program\, and the Maghreb Digital Library; co-chaired of the U.S.-Egypt S&T development fund for four years; and served at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli\, helping negotiate the first U.S.-Libya bilateral agreement in decades. He has taught at Georgetown\, Johns Hopkins\, Tufts/Fletcher School\, Amideast/Mohamed V in Rabat\, and Cadi Ayyad in Marrakesh and lectured at over 100 universities worldwide. He appears regularly on NPR\, BBC\, VOA\, France 24\, Al Jazeera Arabic and English\, and CCTV (China). He received six merit awards from the U.S. State Department\, two medals from the Egyptian government\, and an alumni achievement award from Duke University. He co-produced 6 MENA-related documentary films and 14 albums of North African music. \nAsma Khalifa is a Libyan activist and researcher who has worked on human rights\, women’s rights\, and youth empowerment since 2011. Growing up as a non-Arab\, Amazigh Libyan under the rule of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi\, Khalifa witnessed the negative impact of discrimination and violence against women. She has spent her career contributing to the building of Libya’s civil society and has recently worked on peacebuilding and conflict transformation in the country. For her efforts\, Khalifa received the 2016 Luxembourg Peace Prize during the World Peace Forum in the European Parliament and\, in 2017\, she was named one of the “100 Most Influential Young Africans” by the Africa Youth Awards. Khalifa is also the co-founder of Tamazight Women’s Movement\, a think/do tank that is working on gender equality and research on the indigenous women of Libya and North Africa. \n  \nAbout our Moderator:  \nMosadek Hobrara is the Executive Director of the Libyan American Alliance. He holds a Master of Science degree in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Law from Tripoli University (Libya). Professionally\, Mosadek is the Executive Director of the Libyan American Alliance (LAA). Mosadek was previously engaged in providing mediation work in Libya\, he was a lead member at the Libyan Notables Council for Reconciliation\, a non-governmental organization conducting local mediation efforts in Libya. He facilitated multiple ceasefire agreements between local factions mainly in southern Libya. Mosadek was also a project manager at the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD)\, a Swiss NGO supporting the peacebuilding processes in Libya. During his work with the Center\, he was in charge of organizing and facilitating roundtable talks between regional actors\, political leaders\, tribal actors\, and civil society leaders. During and after the Arab Spring\, he participated intensively as an activist advocating for issues of human rights and transitional justice.
URL:https://nifusa.org/event-2/lunch-discussion-libya-what-does-berlin-have-in-store/
LOCATION:National Interest Foundation\, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue NW\, Suite 7000\, Washington\, DC\, 20006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Egypt\, What's Next? with Dr. Amr Darrag
DESCRIPTION:The National Interest Foundation invites you to attend our lunch discussion on Egypt with Dr. Amr Darrag. \nAbout our Speaker: \nDr. Amr Darrag served as Egypt’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. In 2014\, he established and is currently Chairman of “The Egyptian Institute for Political and Strategic Studies” a think tank based in Istanbul\, Turkey. He was elected as Secretary General of the Assembly drafting the 2012 Egyptian Constitution. He is a founding member and used to be member of the Executive Board of the Egyptian Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). He served as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the Development and Planning Committee of the FJP. Before that\, he was elected Secretary General of the FJP in Giza Governorate\, 2011. He was originally a Civil Engineering Professor at Cairo University and he got his Ph.D. from Purdue University\, USA in 1987. He was elected as Vice-Chairman of Cairo University Staff Association\, 1999-2008. He has been partner and top executive of several international and Egyptian engineering consultancy firms.
URL:https://nifusa.org/event-2/lunch-discussion-egypt-whats-next-with-dr-amr-darrag/
LOCATION:National Interest Foundation\, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue NW\, Suite 7000\, Washington\, DC\, 20006\, United States
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