POMED's Weekly Wire for November 5th is now available. In this week's edition, you will find these and other highlights: U.S. Withdraws Support for Syrian National Council Yemen National Dialogue Agenda Drafted Bahrain Bans Protests; POMED Exec Calls for U.S. Action to Back Up Rhetoric Egypt NGO Workers' Trial Delayed, Protests Continue over Draft Constitution Libyan PM Appoints Cabinet To continue reading the fully Weekly Wire, click here.

The United States Institute of Peace hosted a panel discussion entitled "Religion, Violence, and Coexistence," which looked into civil society's role in preventing and addressing provocative statements of religious bias and violent responses to it. The discussion featured Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom; Hoda Elshishtawy, legislative and policy analyst at the Muslim Public Affairs Council; Marc Gopin, Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, ...

On October 16, Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy hosted a discussion by former Los Angeles Times correspondent Jim Mann and Washington Post correspondent Tom Hamburger. Mann discussed the premise of his new book, “The Obamians” and along with Hamburger, spoke on politics, foreign policy, and the current presidential campaign. For full notes, continue reading, or click here for a PDF.   Jim Mann addressed the role of foreign policy in the ...

POMED's Weekly Wire for October 15th is now available. This week we cover the following top stories: Rep. McDermott, 23 Members of Congress Call on Bahrain to Pardon Medics Sec. Clinton Speaks on Reform in Maghreb Rival Factions Clash in Tahrir Congress Holds Hearing on Libya Vice Presidential Debate Features Questions on Middle East  To continue reading the full Weekly Wire, click here.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the keynote address at an all-day conference on the "Maghreb in Transition" on Friday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Clinton focused her remarks  on the broader trends in the region, asking the audience to look beyond the headlines and "weigh the violent acts of a small number of extremists against the aspirations and actions of the region’s people and governments. That broader view supports ...

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hosted a hearing on Wednesday (10/10) entitled "The Security Failures of Benghazi." The witnesses included Charlene Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State; Eric Nordstrom, Regional Security Officer, U.S. Department of State; Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, Utah National Guard, U.S. Army; and Ambassador Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of State. For full ...

The Brookings Institution published a study of American opinions on the Middle East, conducted by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes and Anwar Sadat Chair Shibley Telhami. The study sought to gauge American first impressions and public opinion of the attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East, and whether attitudes on other issues have changed since the attacks. A poll conducted as part of the study found that a majority ...