This Friday, November 9 at 12:00 pm the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) presents "Examining the Path Ahead: Facing Obstacles in Egypt's Transition." The event will feature Greg Aftandilian, Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Center for National Policy; Wael Abdel Fattah, Daily Columnist for the Al Tahrir Newspaper and the Co-founder of the Al-Akhbar Daily Newspaper; and Gameela Ismail, Steering Committee Member for the Al-Dostour Party and former candidate, 2010 & 2011 Egyptian ...

The Project on Middle East Democracy and the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East present: Looking Forward in Yemen: Challenges, Opportunities, & the International Community’s Role Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:00 am – 11:30 am Atlantic Council (1101 15th St. NW, Floor 11) More than a year and a half after the start of the nation’s revolution, Yemen is poised to start the National Dialogue process in mid-November – a ...

On Thursday, October 25, the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), The Brookings Institution, and Vital Voices Global Partnership will host "Women After the Arab Awakening: Making Change" from 2:00 until 3:30 pm at The Brookings Institution's Saul/Zilkha Rooms (1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW). Women played an integral role in the Arab uprisings, and the continued empowerment of women will be critical to the emergence of democracy in the region. Gender rights and women’s equality ...

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 Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) presents: Will the Monarchs Reform? Challenges to Democracy in the Gulf  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 SEIU Headquarters, First Floor Conference Room (1800 Massachusetts Ave. NW) 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (A light lunch will be available at noon.) While 2011 and 2012 have witnessed unprecedented changes across the Middle East and North Africa, the Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and ...

The Green Wave (2010), a documentary-collage about the 2009 protests in Iran against fraudulent presidential elections and the subsequent crackdown on what became known as the Green Movement, is now available nationwide for viewing (trailer here). The L.A. Times calls the film "deeply moving," and NPR calls it "soulful." You can find the film on Movies on Demand and iTunes. POMED screened the film at the West End Cinema last night, featuring remarks ...

On Friday, June 29, 2012, POMED and the New America Foundation hosted an event entitled “Road Bumps in Tunisia: Understanding Emerging Tensions.” The event examined new rifts in Tunisian society and politics, the constitution-writing process, and civil society activity, among other key issues. The panel featured: Amine Ghali, Program Director, Al Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center; Alexis Arieff, Africa Analyst, Congressional Research Service; Tamara Wittes, Director, Saban Center for Middle East ...

On Tuesday, June 12, the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) will host an event entitled, "Libya on the Eve of Elections: Examining the Challenges of Political and Economic Development" at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 10:00-11:30am. The participants will examine what the elections will look like, what the government's top priorities ought to be, and what role civil society will play after the polls close. The discussion will ...

This Thursday, March 1st, POMED will host its 4th annual Leaders for Democracy Awards Reception in Washington, D.C from 7 to 9pm at the Touchstone Gallery (located at 901 New York Ave. NW). The POMED annual awards reception is a special gathering that brings together POMED staff, friends, and supporters.  It will be a wonderful opportunity to look back on the exciting events of the past year and look forward to all ...

On Monday, October 17th, POMED's Executive Director Steve McInerney will be part of a panel discussion entitled "Tunisia: Act Two," focusing on the upcoming elections in Tunisia. This event is organized by the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. The event will also feature Tunisian Ambassador to the United States His Excellency Mohamed Salah Tekaya, President of Tunisian American Young ...

POMED and the National Security Network will be co-hosting a panel discussion on Tuesday, September 13th, called "The Arab Uprisings and the United Nations." The event will be from 10am-11:30am at the Center for American Progress (1333 H St NW, 10th Floor, Washington, DC 20005). We're excited to have Dr. James Zogby (President, Arab American Institute), Geneive Abdo (Fellow, the Century Foundation and the National Security Network), and Ted Piccone (Senior Fellow, ...

On Thursday, the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) hosted a discussion on recent and ongoing events in Tunisia and Egypt and their influence on U.S. relations with the region’s governments and people and what steps the U.S. government can take to support democratic transitions in Egypt and Tunisia. POMED Executive Director Stephen McInerney made opening remarks and introduced panelists: Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University and founding ...

POMED will be hosting an event today, Thursday, February 10th, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419 from 1:00pm-2:30pm to discuss recent and ongoing events in Tunisia and Egypt and how they will influence the state of U.S. relations with the region's governments and people and what steps the U.S. government can take to support democratic transitions in Egypt and Tunisia. Panelists include: Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution ...

On Thursday, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in partnership with the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) hosted a discussion on the rapidly evolving crisis in Egypt. Michele Dunne, Senior Associate in the Middle East Program at Carnegie Endowment moderated the event and introduced the panelists: Amr Hamzawy, Research Director and Senior Associate of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut who joined the panelists from Midan Tahrir in ...

On Tuesday, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in partnership with Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) hosted a discussion on preparations by opposition parties and domestic electoral monitors for the upcoming Egyptian parliamentary elections. Mahmoud Ali Mohamed, the director of the Egyptian Center for Development and Democratic Studies and member of the Wafd Party Supreme Council, and Wael Nawara, the co-founder and secretary general of the al-Ghad Party, gave ...

POMED and the Heinrich Boll Foundation hosted a panel discussion to discuss the role of U.S. military assistance in America’s attempt to maintain strategic interests without undermining democracy promotion and human rights. The event was the third in a series examining U.S. credibility on human rights and featured both Steven Cook, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an expert on Arab and Turkish ...

On Friday, POMED and the Heinrich Böll Foundation will host a luncheon discussion, entitled "U.S. Military Assistance: Obstacle or Opportunity for Reform?" Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations and Emile Hokayem of the Stimson Center will discuss the role of U.S. military aid to non-democratic allies in the Arab world and how the U.S. can pursue strategic military cooperation without undermining principles of human rights and democratic reform. The luncheon ...

On Friday, the Project on Middle East Democracy, along with the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, hosted a roundtable to discuss the findings of POMED’s recent policy workshop.  The workshop, the second in a two-part series, took place over the previous two days and brought together fifteen leaders from the United States, Europe and the Middle East to explore existing multilateral frameworks designed to promote ...

POMED is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our upcoming series of conferences in the Middle East.  These will bring together young American and European professionals with reformists working in the Middle East to examine political reform dynamics in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt and the role of U.S. foreign policy on the prospects for reform in those countries.  Ultimately, the conferences will produce recommendations for U.S. policymakers on how to ...