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SUMMARY:Great Decisions - Mona Yacoubian|American Foreign Policy in the Mid
 dle East
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nBOSTON\, MA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnalysts of American policy 
 in 2025 have the unusual advantage of being able to assess the new preside
 nt’s likely policies regarding the Middle East against the backdrop of w
 hat he did in his first term\, four years earlier.\n\nJoin us for a timely
  discussion of this topic with Mona Yacoubian\, senior adviser and directo
 r of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International
  Studies (CSIS). This program will feature an expert presentation\, live a
 udience Q&amp\;A\, and time for networking and discussion with other globa
 lly-oriented participants.\n\nThe program will be live-streamed to Zoom fr
 om 6:00-7:00 PM. To attend virtually\, please register here.\n\nThis progr
 am is free and open to the public\, but advance registration is required.\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMona Yacoubian is senior adviser and director o
 f the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International St
 udies (CSIS). She has more than thirty years of experience working on the 
 Middle East and North Africa\, with a focus on conflict analysis\, governa
 nce and stabilization challenges\, and conflict prevention. She was previo
 usly vice president of the Middle East and North Africa Center at the U.S.
  Institute of Peace (USIP)\, where she managed field programming in Iraq\,
  Libya\, and Tunisia as well as Washington\, D.C.–based staff. In 2019\,
  she served as executive director of the congressionally appointed Syria S
 tudy Group. From 2014 to 2017\, Yacoubian served as deputy assistant admin
 istrator in the Middle East Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International De
 velopment (USAID)\, where she had responsibility for programming across Sy
 ria\, Jordan\, Lebanon\, and Iraq. Prior to joining USAID\, Yacoubian was 
 a senior adviser at the Stimson Center and a special adviser on the Middle
  East at USIP. From 1990 to 1998\, Yacoubian served as the North Africa an
 alyst in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. 
 Her opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times\, Foreign Affairs\,
  Foreign Policy\, and various other outlets\, and she has testified to Con
 gress six times. Yacoubian was a Fulbright scholar in Syria\, where she st
 udied Arabic at the University of Damascus from 1985 to 1986. She has held
  an international affairs fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations
  (CFR) and is a CFR member. She earned a master’s in public administrati
 on from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor
 ’s in public policy from Duke University.\n\n\n
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