BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32239@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240220T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240220T173000 DTSTAMP:20240213T210857Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/tensions-in-the-middle-east-the-war -in-gaza-iran-and-the-houthis/ SUMMARY:Tensions in the Middle East: The War in Gaza\, Iran\, and the Houth is DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin the Middle East Policy Forum for this hybrid panel dis cussion on The War in Gaza\, Iran\, and the Houthis. Guests may attend in person at Elliott School Room 505 (1957 E St NW\, Washington\, DC) or remo tely via Zoom.\n\nAs Israel’s war in Gaza approaches its fifth month\, f ears of regional escalation are mounting as multiple nations target each o ther’s territories in a series of escalatory strikes. Israeli forces hav e clashed with Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border since the start o f the war and have continued to strike targets in Syria as well. These hav e been joined by the Houthi’s attacks on shipping in the Red Sea to disr upt Israel’s war\, prompting retaliatory strikes from the US and UK. At the same time\, Saudi Arabia has remained reluctant to restart military op erations against the Houthis. Meanwhile\, Iran has struck targets in Iraq and Syria and engaged in tit-for-tat attacks against Pakistan.\n\nRSVP ONL INE\n\nRSVP IN-PERSON\n\n \;\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \nJohnathan Lord i s a Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at CNAS . Before joining CNAS\, Lord served as a professional staff member for the House Armed Services Committee\, serving the full committee and managing the U.S. Central Command/Middle East defense policy portfolio\, as well as issues related to security assistance.\n\n \nSina Azodi is a Ph.D. candi date in international affairs at the University of South Florida\, where h e is completing a dissertation on Iran’s nuclear program. His research i nterests include international security\, nuclear nonproliferation\, and U .S.-Iranian relations. He was a research assistant at Princeton University ’s Program on Science and Global Security and at the Woodrow Wilson Inte rnational Center for Scholars. Sina is also a visiting scholar and a lectu rer of international affairs at The George Washington University’s Ellio tt School of International Affairs\, where he teaches a graduate course on Iran’s foreign policy in the Middle East.\n\n \nBarbara Slavin is a di stinguished fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington and a lecturer in i nternational affairs at George Washington University. Before joining Stims on\, she founded and directed the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlanti c Council and led a bi-partisan task force on Iran. The author of Bitter F riends\, Bosom Enemies: Iran\, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontatio n (2007)\, she is a regular commentator on US foreign policy and Iran on N PR\, PBS\, and C-Span.\n\n \nNegar Mortazavi is an award-winning journali st and commentator\, editor and host of the Iran Podcast\, and a Senior Fe llow at the Center for International Policy (CIP)\, based in Washington DC . For over a decade\, she has covered Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs a nd US foreign policy towards the Middle East. Mortazavi is a frequent medi a commentator and has appeared on CNN\, NBC\, NPR\, BBC\, France24\, Aljaz eera\, and other global outlets. She has written for Foreign Policy magazi ne\, Politico\, The Intercept\, The Independent\, and other publications. She is regularly invited to speak at panels and conferences around the wor ld about Iranian affairs and US foreign policy.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/02/Tensions-in-the-Middle-East-The-War-in-Gaza-Iran-and-the-Houthis-1- aspect-ratio-1090-610.webp CATEGORIES:Arab,Arab American,Discussion,Lecture LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, 1957 E St NW\, Washingto n\, DC 20009\, United States GEO:38.8962368;-77.04394819999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1957 E St NW\, Washington\, DC 20009\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Elliott School of Int ernational Affairs:geo:38.8962368,-77.04394819999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR