Marwan Muasher Calls for Moderates in the Middle East

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: The Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 07.08.08
Speaker:: Marwan Muasher
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Summary: Is there any hope for moderate voices in the Arab world? Many international leaders and scholars agree that compromise and centrist policies will help to broker peace and stability in the Middle East, but religious and political extremism has been growing.

Muasher served as Jordan's first ambassador to Israel and as ambassador to the U.S. He will discuss the importance of and the challenges facing moderates in the Arab world - The Commonwealth Club of California

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Marwan Muasher

Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment's research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002�2004) and deputy prime minister (2004�2005) of Jordan, and his career has spanned the areas of diplomacy, development, civil society, and communications. He is also a senior fellow at Yale University.

Muasher began his career as a journalist for The Jordan Times. He then served at the Ministry of Planning, at the prime minister's office as press adviser, and as director of the Jordan Information Bureau in Washington.

In 1995, Muasher opened Jordan�s first embassy in Israel, and in 1996 became minister of information and the government spokesperson. From 1997 to 2002, he served in Washington again as ambassador, negotiating the first free trade agreement between the United States and an Arab nation. He then returned to Jordan to serve as foreign minister, where he played a central role in developing the Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East Road Map.

In 2004 he became deputy prime minister responsible for reform and government performance, and led the effort to produce a ten-year plan for political, economic, and social reform. From 2006 to 2007, he was a member of the Jordanian Senate.

Most recently, he was senior vice president of external affairs at the World Bank from 2007 to 2010. He is also the author of The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation.

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01 hr 05 min 38 sec

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01.: Introduction

02 min 03 sec

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02.: Rare Book on Arab Government

02 min 11 sec

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03.: Arab Peace Initiative

03 min 44 sec

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04.: Human Side of Conflict

03 min 37 sec

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05.: Urgency in Peace Process

03 min 50 sec

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06.: Arab Responsibility for Reform

02 min 34 sec

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07.: Two State Solution

02 min 18 sec

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08.: Q1: Bush Sick of Arab-Israeli Conflict

03 min 52 sec

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09.: Q2: Road Map Goes Nowhere

08 min 14 sec

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10.: Q3: Arab Governments

02 min 21 sec

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11.: Q4: Obama and McCain

02 min 59 sec

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12.: Q5: Compromise over Jerusalem

07 min 08 sec

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13.: Q6: Arabs in Israel

04 min 20 sec

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14.: Q7: Iran

03 min 43 sec

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15.: Q8: Pressure on Arab Moderates

04 min 35 sec

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16.: Q9: Definition of Arab Center

01 min 25 sec

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17.: Q10: King Hussein

02 min 47 sec

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18.: Q11: Yasser Arafat

03 min 41 sec

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Marwan Muasher: The Doomed Roadmap to Middle East Peace

05 min 23 sec

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Details of the Israel-Palestine Negotiations for Peace

03 min 57 sec

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Marwan Muasher: The Urgency of Peace in the Middle East

04 min 06 sec

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01 hr 05 min 38 sec

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