23 Jun 2025 18:00 - 19:00
Caabu invites you to an online panel discussion on war in the Middle East, with an expert panel consisting of Jasmine El-Gamal, writer and analyst, and formerly Middle East policy advisor at the Pentagon under Obama, Azadeh Moaveni, journalist, writer and associate professor at New York University, Dr. H.A. Hellyer, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), on Monday 23 June 2025 at 6pm (BST UK time).
Join us for this important panel discussion examining the implications of Israel's war on Iran and the continuing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, not least on the region itself, but the impacts it will have on UK, European and U.S policy.
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When: Monday 23 June 2025, 18:00 (BST, UK time).
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About the speakers:
Jasmine El-Gamal is a writer and analyst focusing on US policy and the Middle East and the Deputy Director of The Oxford Process where she leads Arab-Israeli conflict resolution efforts.
A former Middle East policy advisor at the Pentagon under the Obama administration, Jasmine served three Secretaries of Defense, advising on myriad issues including post-war Iraq, the Arab Spring, the war against ISIS, and Syria. She served as the Acting Chief of Staff for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy and Special Assistant to three consecutive Under Secretaries of Defense for Policy,
Jasmine is a regular contributor to global media outlets, including CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, France 24 and others.
Azadeh Moaveni is a journalist, writer and associate professor at New York University, where she directs the Global Journalism Program. Her books and articles explore the interaction between gender and armed conflict, and how women’s rights, security and political participation are impacted by war and authoritarianism. Her recent research has focused on women’s recruitment to armed groups, feminist foreign policy, and the humanitarian crisis arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine, she covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has reported from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia. She is the author of two books on Iran, Lipstick Jihad, and Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author, with Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. Her latest book, Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Rathbones Folio prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Guest House for Young Widows emerged out of a front-page story for the Times that was a finalist for a group Pulitzer. She spoke about this for a Caabu event in May 2020. She writes for the London Review of Books and the New York Times, among other publications.
Dr H.A. Hellyer is an internationally recognised expert on security and international affairs, in the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia, has operated at the nexus of government policy and think-tanks for the past 20 years. He currently serves as Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, following prolonged tenures at Brookings and Carnegie. Formerly Deputy Convenor of the UK Government’s Taskforce on radicalisation, Dr Hellyer also served in the UK Foreign Office and held positions in Harvard and Cambridge universities. A research entrepreneur and coordinator, Dr Hellyer is the author of 10 books, 100s of op-ed articles and regularly consulted by media for his expertise.
His subject matter expertise is in geopolitics, political economy, and national security policies. More can be found on his website here.
Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), which emphasizes the Palestine-Israel issue alongside regional conflicts, trends and geopolitics.
From 2012 to 2016, Levy was Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that he was a senior Fellow and Director of the New America Foundation’s Middle East Taskforce in Washington D.C. and a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation in New York. Levy was a Senior Advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin during the Government of Ehud Barak (1999-2001). He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel/Palestine peace talks at Taba under Barak and at Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin (1994-95).
Levy is a founder and Advisory Board member of the newly formed Diaspora Alliance (combatting antisemitism and its conflation), a Council Member of the ECFR, and serves on the board of the European Middle East Project. His most recent testimony to the UN Security Council can be viewed here.
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