DeutschDocumentation of the International Conference of the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin and The Institute for National Security Studies, 21.-22. November 2015
Window of Opportunity or Collapse of a Region? - Western Middle East Policies and Israel after the Deal with Iran
The conference was supported by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)
Introduction and Greetings
Michael Spaney (MFFB) and Emily Landau (INSS)
Opening panel: Combatting, Inclusion or Dialogue - Western Responses towards Islamism
- Dr. Matthias Küntzel (Political Scientist, publicist, Hamburg)
Misconceptions, Appeasement and Anti-Imperialism– Approaches to the Middle East (PDF) - Alan Johnson (Editor, Fathom Magazine)
Jeremy Corbyn as a Symptom? – Islamism, Anti-Zionism and British Society - Shimon Stein (INSS)
Do they understand the Region? - Israel’s perspective on Western Middle East Policies
Chair: Ulrike Becker (MFFB)
Panel 2: Changing Strategic Alliances - After the Nuclear Deal with Iran
- Emily Landau (INSS)
The Nuclear Deal with Iran and the Threat to Israel - Reuel Marc Gerecht (Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
US-Iranian Rapprochement, Sanctions Relief and the Expansion of Iranian Terror - Simone Dinah Hartmann
(Founder of STOP THE BOMB, Director of ISGAP Austria; Former vice president of operations at United Against Nuclear Iran)
New Best Friends? Europe and Iran and the Fight against Terror
Chair: Andreas Benl (MFFB)
Panel 3: Beyond Red Lines – Actors in the Syrian Catastrophe
- Jonathan Spyer (IDC Herzliya)
Revolutionary Guards, Shia Militias and Hizbullah - The Iranian Regime in Syria - Mohamad Kamal Allabwani (Damascus Institute for Research and Studies)
Assad’s War and the Refugee Crisis
Read PDF: Kamal Allabwani: The General Situation in the Middle East
Read PDF: Kamal Allabwani: The Local Situation in Syria
- Boris Reitschuster (Journalist, Author, Berlin)
The Implications of Russia’s Intervention in Syria
Chair: Michael Spaney (MFFB)
Panel 4: Israel and the Situation in the Middle East - regional terror and global support
- David Pollock (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Israel’s security situation and the Regional Supporters of Terror
- Anat Kurz (INSS)
The Palestinian Issue: What now?
- Gabriel Noah Brahm (SPME - Scholars for Peace in the Middle East; Northern Michigan University)
We are all Eagles of Death Metal - the Elements of Intellectual Terrorism in Academia
Chair: Michael Spaney (MFFB)
Panel 5: Ways out of the Middle Eastern Tragedy?
- Kamal Allabwani (Damascus Institute for Research and Studies)
Read PDF: Kamal Allabwani: The Syrian Matter - Emily Landau (INSS)
- David Pollock (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
- Matthias Küntzel (Political Scientist, publicist, Hamburg)
Chair: Andreas Benl (MFFB)
