The regional impact of the ISIS crisis: Caabu event on Iraq and Syria

The regional impact of the ISIS crisis: Caabu event on Iraq and Syria

Please join Caabu for an event on Iraq and Syria, where Iraqi journalist Mina Al Oraibi, Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Al-Awsat and Lina Khatib, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut will discuss the regional impact of the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) crisis.

Keep up to date with this event by following Caabu's Facebook page. 

The event is public, so everyone is welcome, but it is important that you RSVP to Joseph Willits (willitsj@caabu.org) to reserve a place. Seats may be limited.

When:Tuesday, 8 July, 6:30pm - 8pm
Where: Wilson Room, Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament.

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About the speakers:

Mina Al Oraibi is Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Al-Awsat. She was previously the newspaper's Bureau Chief in Washington, DC. Her work includes a series of articles on the uprisings and their aftermath in the Middle East, the development of American military doctrine and high-profile interviews of personalities, including Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. Al Oraibi often has assignments in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Foreign Policy Magazine has named her as one of the top 100 Twitterati in foreign policy. Al Oraibi is a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Arab World. She was awarded a Distinction for her MA History Dissertation on the 1958 coup d'etat in Iraq from University College London, where she also completed a BA in History. In 2012, she participated in the Georgetown Leadership Seminar. 

She Tweets at @AlOraibi.

Lina Khatib is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. Previously, she was the co-founding head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Her research interests include the international relations of the Middle East, Islamist groups, political transitions, and foreign policy. She has also published widely on public diplomacy, political communication, and political participation in the Middle East. 

Khatib has published seven books, including Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle (I. B. Tauris, 2013), Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism (co-edited with Ellen Lust, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and the forthcoming The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (co-authored with Dina Matar and Atef Alshaer, Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014). Her published journal articles include "Qatar's Foreign Policy: The Limits of Pragmatism," "Public Diplomacy 2.0," and "Hizbullah's Political Strategy." 

Since 2008, Khatib has been a founding co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and a research associate at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. From 2010 to 2012, she was a nonresident research fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy. She lectured at the University of London from 2003 to 2010. 

Prior to joining the academic field, Khatib worked in broadcast journalism in Lebanon.

She Tweets at @LinaKhatibCMEC.

If you would like to attend this event on the regional implications of the ISIS crisis in Iraq and Syria please RSVP to Joseph Willits (willitsj@caabu.org), or get in touch via Twitter. You can also communicate with us on our Facebook group.

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To enter parliament, please use Portcullis House entrance, marked 4 on this map.

Allow at least 30 minutes to pass through security.