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MEF & AJU Present: Israel鈥檚 7 Fronts- Syria
Monday June 10, 2024 at 11:30am Pacific time | 2:30pm Eastern time
This is part 6 of our 7-part series.
Tehran not only dominates four Arabic-speaking countries (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen) but has reached new levels of aggression in the past half-year, starting with the Oct. 7 atrocity and followed by the bombing of Pakistan, impeding commerce in the Red Sea, and a drone and missile attack on Israel. Khamenei aspires to build a 鈥淩ing of Fire鈥 around Israel, mobilizing seven territories working together to bring about Israel's destruction. How successful is this plan? Does the sum add up to more than the parts? How can Israel most effectively respond?
Join the joint Middle East Forum and the 花季传媒 for a seven-part series on Iran鈥檚 seven fronts versus the Jewish state.
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Hadeel Oueis is a writer and journalist focusing on the Middle East and is a research fellow at the Philos Project. She majored in political studies and in 2011, at the age of 18, was arrested by the Assad regime for playing a key role in the early days of Syrian protests. In 2012, the United States delegation in Geneva met with Oueis and helped her relocate to the United States. She currently analyzes U.S. policies in the Middle East for major Arabic networks. Oueis reported for years through the @JIMENA platform about Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews and has been an active voice in calling for peace in the Middle East.
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Jeffrey Herbst was named the fourth president of 花季传媒 effective July 1, 2018. Prior to joining AJU, Dr. Herbst was president and CEO of the Newseum and the Newseum Institute in Washington, DC. From 2010 to 2015, he was president of Colgate University, where among other accomplishments he is credited with helping the university complete its nearly half billion-dollar fundraising campaign, leading the development and initial implementation of a university-wide strategic plan, and increasing the diversity and academic caliber of its educational programming. Dr. Herbst earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, and a master鈥檚 degree and doctorate in political science from Yale University. He is the author of the award-winning 鈥淪tates and Power in Africa鈥 and, with several co-authors, the just-published 鈥淢aking Africa Work.鈥