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New America Foundation Leading the Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East at the Democratic Convention

    Can the Next President Make The Middle East Irrelevant?

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New America
Foundation/Middle East Policy Initiative will host a policy forum focused
on how to implement a game-changing strategy for American engagement in the
Middle East that produces a new, stable security and economic equilibrium
rather than the convulsions and instability prevalent today.

    WHO: Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman, Near East and South and
Central Asian Affairs Subcommittee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

    Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister of Germany

    Greg Craig, Senior National Security Advisor to Senator Barack Obama;
former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State

    Mel Levine, Obama Campaign; former Member, U.S. House of
Representatives

    Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University

    and a panel discussion with:

    Steve Coll, President & CEO, New America Foundation; Washington
correspondent, The New Yorker

    Steve Clemons, Director, American Strategy Program, New America
Foundation; Publisher, The Washington Note (http://www.washingtonnote.com)

    Daniel Levy, Director, Middle East Policy Initiative, New America
Foundation; Director, Prospects for Peace Initiative, The Century
Foundation

    James Zogby, President, Arab American Institute

    And others to be announced

    WHAT: Can the Next President Make the Middle East Irrelevant?

    http://www.middleeasttaskforce.org

    WHEN: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

    WHERE: Colorado History Museum Auditorium, 1300 Broadway

    RSVP: Rebecca Abou-Chedid, abouchedid@newamerica.net 202-256-4096

    About the New America Foundation

    The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy
institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next
generation of challenges facing the United States.



SOURCE New America Foundation




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    CONTACT:
    Rebecca Abou-Chedid of the New America
    Foundation, +1-202-256-4096, abouchedid@newamerica.net