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Hudson Institute's Center for Future Security Strategies invites you to a panel discussion on

Is Democracy Good For The Middle East?

Featuring Journalist and Hudson Senior Fellow Lee Smith, recently returned from the Middle East

With commentary from

Steve Clemons, New America Foundation

Joshua Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute

Marina Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment

S. Enders Wimbush, Hudson Institute (moderator)

Monday, November 20, 2006

12:00–2:00 p.m.

STEVE CLEMONS is Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and Publisher of the www.TheWashingtonNote.com. JOSHUA MURAVCHIK is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict, global democracy, terrorism, and the Bush Doctrine. MARINA OTTAWAY is Director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-editor (co-edited with Thomas Carothers) of Uncharted Journey: Democracy Promotion in the Middle East. LEE SMITH, currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute, provided on-site commentary for The Weekly Standard and other media during this summer’s Lebanon War. S. ENDERS WIMBUSH is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Future Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute.

To RSVP, please email name and affiliation to RICHARD WEITZ at Weitz@hudson.org.

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center, Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C.