Addressing a high-level audience of government officials, ambassadors, and private sector representatives as a guest speaker at the February 18th “Rendezvous Series” at Capital Club Bahrain, IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji highlighted key IPI initiatives…
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We are not just witnessing a fraught moment in history, we are living it, with no clear outcome in view, Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told attendees to a Distinguished Author Series event February 20th discussing his book A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old […]
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Twelve-year-old Adam Jade Kadia called on his peers, fellow students, and youth, as the leaders of future generations, to work together to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the launch of his new book 17 SDGs held at IPI-MENA in collaboration with the Gulf Petrochemicals Industries Company (GPIC), Supreme Council for Women (SCW) and […]
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Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, told an IPI audience on November 9th that the kingdom would never permit an international investigation into the death of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.“The kingdom is not going to accept an international tribunal to look into something that is Saudi,” he said. “And the Saudi judicial […]
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“Listen to what refugees are telling us” was the simple advice that Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), gave to an IPI meeting on November 2nd on Addressing Contemporary Protection Challenges in Complex Crises.He spoke at a time when displacement has reached critical dimensions, with 68.5 million […]
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Cyber weapons can inflict massive damage but are cheap, reliable, portable, easily hidden and hard to detect, New York Times National Security Correspondent David E. Sanger told a packed house at IPI the evening of October 18th. “Most importantly,” he said, “you can dial it up and dial it down, you can’t do that with a […]
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