Program

Thursday January 28 th

Opening session

2 : 30 pm Gérard Larcher - President of the French Senate

2 : 40 pm Josselin de Rohan - Chairman of the Foreign Relations and Defense Committee of the French Senate

2 : 50 pm Jean François-Poncet , French Senator, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, co-author of the Foreign Relations and Defense Committee's report on the situation in the Middle East

Overview nuclear islam in the middle east

3 : 00 pm Robert Malley - Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group Washington, DC, USA - former assistant to President Clinton for Arab and Israeli affairs

How likely is a successful dialogue with Iran ?

Panel at 3 : 45 pm

Ladan Boroumand - Research Director, Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Human Rights and Democracy in Iran

Contribution 1 - Contribution 2

Anthony H. Cordesman - Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Washington DC

Contribution 1 - Contribution 2

Bernard Hourcade - senior researcher at CNRS (Paris) - professor of geography at the University Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle

Dr. Mustafa Alani - Senior Advisor Director, Gulf Research center - Dubai

Contribution

5 : 00 pm Break

What future for the palestinian people?

5 : 15 pm Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga - French Senator, co-author of the the Foreign Relations and Defense Committee's report on the situation in the Middle East

Panel at 5 : 30 pm

Yves Aubin de la Messuzière - Former Director, North Africa/Middle East at the French Foreign Office, former French Ambassador - President of la Mission laïque française

Muzna Shihabi - Member of the Palestinian negociation team, representing Saeb Erekat - Chief Palestinian Negotiator

Henri Siegman - Former Senior Fellow and Director for the U.S./Middle East Project, Council on Foreign Relations

Mike Singh - Ira Weiner Fellow, The Washington Institute for near East Policy

Friday January 29 th

A renaissance for Iraq ?

Panel at 9 : 30 am

Boris Boillon - French Ambassador to Iraq

Fareed Yasseen - Ambassador, government of Irak

Masroor Barzani - Head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) security and intelligence agencies

11 : 00 am Break

The latest on Al Qaeda

Panel at 11 : 30 am

Alain Chouet, Former chief of the security intelligence service within the French Foreign Intelligence Service

Jean-Pierre Filiu - Professor at Sciences Po Paris - Middle East Chair - visiting professor at Georgetown University

François Heisbourg - Special advisor at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique in Paris

In search of a European Middle East Policy

Panel at 2 : 30 pm

Dr Muriel Asseburg - Head, Middle East and Africa Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs - SWP

Jean-Dominique Giuliani - Chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation

Dr Claire Spencer - Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House

Closing session

4 : 30 pm Javier Solana - Former European Union High representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy

5 : 00 pm Bernard Kouchner - Foreign and European Affairs Minister of France