Open Discussion - New Realities in a
Changing Middle East |
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Open Discussions & Gulf Cultural
Club
Cordially invites you to a seminar
'New Realities in a
Changing Middle East'
Date:
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
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Time:
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6.30 to 8.30
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Venue:
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45 Crawford Place, Edgware Road, W1H 4LP
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With:
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Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor, The Times
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Richard Beeston joined The Times in 1986 and has
worked for the foreign department ever since. He reported on the Iran-Iraq war,
where he was with the first group of journalists to visit the Kurdish town of
Halabja, where thousands died in an Iraqi chemical weapons attack. He also
covered the release of Nelson Mandela, the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini and the
Western hostage crisis in Lebanon. He was promoted to Foreign Editor at the
beginning of this year. Before joining The Times, Richard worked as a freelance
correspondent in Beirut covering the civil war. He started his career in South
Africa on the Financial Mail news magazine.
New developments in the
Middle East in recent times have forced a rethinking of many assumptions
hitherto considered unchangeable facts. The reverses suffered by the US in the
War on Terror, its inability to influence recent events in Lebanon, its failure
to achieve international consensus on Iran's nuclear programme and its inability
to see through meaningful developments in the occupied territories are
influencing public perception in the region against the superpower. What is the
shape of the future Middle East? Will a new US president continue the same
engagement with the region? or will he opt for a different course of action and
work to enhance US image in the world? The discussion to be led by Richard
Beeston, the Foreign Editor of The Times will focus some attention on the Middle
East today, with possibly some future perspectives.
Dinner will be
served
Admission is Free. However, please register by sending an email toinfo@open-discussions.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam
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