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18May A Conversation with Kim Ghattas on Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Rivalries in the Modern Middle East

A Conversation with Kim Ghattas on Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Rivalries in the Modern Middle East

Monday, May 18, 2020
12:00pm - 1:00pm (EDT)

Meeting to be held virtually via Zoom

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Kim Ghattas

Non-resident Scholar,
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist and writer who covered the Middle East for twenty years for the BBC and the Financial Times. She has also reported on the U.S State Department and American politics, and is the author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power. She has been published in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy and is currently a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Born and raised in Lebanon, she now lives between Beirut and Washington, D.C.

Join the NCAFP as we host Kim Ghattas, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East.  Ms. Ghattas will discuss her new book, which examines the modern Middle East and the origins of the bitter rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia. To purchase her book in advance of the program, please click here. 

The event will be conducted via the video conferencing platform Zoom, which works on PC, Mac, or mobile devices. You do not need to create an account to use it. Guests will have the option to join the meeting through the Zoom application, or by calling in by phone. Click here to register.

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May 18, 2020 12:00 PM
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May 18, 2020 01:00 PM
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