Conference Materials
On Friday 21st October, ICSR hosted the Third Annual Atkin Conference at King’s College London. Over 200 participants attended the event, entitled The New Generation in the Middle East, including leading policymakers, academics and experts on the Middle East.
The conference took place in a year of unprecedented transformations in the Middle East. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are changing the region’s political map. Even Israel has witnessed a wave of popular protests.
The aim of this year’s conference was to try and make sense of what has happened in the Middle East in 2011, and to see what will be next. Issues looked at included what role would diasporas play in the ongoing struggles for peace and democracy and assessing how influential traditional media has been and how new media has been effecting change? Activists told us what it felt like to be on the ground? While key policymakers and journalists predicted how the New Middle East will change in 2012 – and beyond?
ICSR brought together many of the key movers of the Arab revolutions, as well as analysts and grassroots activists from across the Middle East, for a day long conversation about The New Generation in the Middle East. It was the first time that this group of activists – from Arab countries and Israel –came together to discuss the future of their region.
In addition to ICSR’s 12 Atkin Fellows, speakers at the conference included:
- Dr Hussein Ibish, Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership
- Lorna Fitzsimons, Bicom
- Ron Skolnik, Meretz USA
- Zaki Chehab, ArabsToday.net
- H.E. Dr. Manuel Hassassian – Palestinian General Delegate to UK
- Mr. Michael Young – opinion editor Daily Star, Beirut
- Michael Weiss, The Henry Jackson Society
- Malik Abdeh, Barada TV
- Zaki Chehab, ArabsToday.net
- H.E. Dr. Manuel Hassassian – Palestinian General Delegate to UK
- Mr. Michael Young – opinion editor Daily Star, Beirut
- Michael Weiss, The Henry Jackson Society
- Malik Abdeh, Barada TV
- Mahmoud Salem, Sand Monkey
- Dr Omar Ashour, Exeter University
- Dareen Khalifa, Egyptian Council on Human Rights
- Talia Gorodess, Reut Institute
- H.E. Dr. Sabri Saidam – advisor to Palestinian President
- Tarek Heggy, Egyptian author
- Daniel Levy, Middle East Taskforce
- Jamal Zakout, advisor to Palestinian PM Fayyad
- Nahum Barnea, journalist, winner of the Israel prize for communication
