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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
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10
December 2018
Past Event
Needed Now More Than Ever: The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
Featured Speakers:
Samuel Brownback
Frank R. Wolf
Thomas L. Gallagher
Nina Shea
Kristina Arriaga
Paul Marshall
Hillel Fradkin
Elizabeth Prodromou
Erin Rodewald
Lou Ann Sabatier
Katrina Lantos Swett
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10
December 2018
Past Event
Needed Now More Than Ever: The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
Experts discuss the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
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Featured Speakers:
Samuel Brownback
Frank R. Wolf
Thomas L. Gallagher
Nina Shea
Kristina Arriaga
Paul Marshall
Hillel Fradkin
Elizabeth Prodromou
Erin Rodewald
Lou Ann Sabatier
Katrina Lantos Swett
26
March 2018
Past Event
US in a Post-ISIS Iraq and Syria: Realigning Allies and Constraining Adversaries
Featured Speakers:
Michael Pregent
Hillel Fradkin
Jennifer Cafarella
Dr. Nahro Zagros
Dr. Ammar Kahf
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26
March 2018
Past Event
US in a Post-ISIS Iraq and Syria: Realigning Allies and Constraining Adversaries
Hillel Fradkin, Michael Pregent, Jennifer Cafarella, Nahro Zagros, and Dr. Ammar Kahf discuss the Post-ISIS middle east.
![Turkey, Free Syrian Army take complete control of Afrin.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/events/thumb/1538/feature_20180326_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=jMCX0HBe)
Featured Speakers:
Michael Pregent
Hillel Fradkin
Jennifer Cafarella
Dr. Nahro Zagros
Dr. Ammar Kahf
23
October 2017
Past Event
Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood
Featured Speakers:
Hillel Fradkin
Secretary Leon E. Panetta
Lally Weymouth
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA)
General Charles “Chuck” Wald, US Army (Ret.)
Ambassador Alberto Fernandez
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
Ray Takeyh
William Wechsler
Hillel Fradkin
Lally Weymouth
General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.)
Representative Don Bacon (R-NE)
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK)
Catherine Herridge
Representative Robert Pittenger (R-TX)
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Hillel Fradkin
Stephen K. Bannon
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
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23
October 2017
Past Event
Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood
Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood
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Featured Speakers:
Hillel Fradkin
Secretary Leon E. Panetta
Lally Weymouth
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA)
General Charles “Chuck” Wald, US Army (Ret.)
Ambassador Alberto Fernandez
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
Ray Takeyh
William Wechsler
Hillel Fradkin
Lally Weymouth
General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.)
Representative Don Bacon (R-NE)
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK)
Catherine Herridge
Representative Robert Pittenger (R-TX)
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Hillel Fradkin
Stephen K. Bannon
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
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Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (Dabiq Magazine)
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) and the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi (L), July 15, 2015, (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Yemenis at the site of a car bomb attack in the northern Al Jaraf neighbourhood of Sanaa, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama (C-L) is greeted by then-Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R) upon his arrival at Rawdat Khurayim on March 28, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport on March, 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2015. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Umpire Carl Paganelli #124 holds a ball on the field after a play during the 2015 AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts at Gillette Stadium on January 18, 2015 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Elsa/Getty Images)
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