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Subject: Event Reminder: Turkey's Emerging Role in the Middle East / January 14, 2010 Thursday<br>To: SETA <<a href="mailto:info@setav.org">info@setav.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 12.45pt; margin-left: 12.2pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font color="#080f53" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(8, 15, 83);">By<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b></span></font><b><font color="#080f53" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(8, 15, 83); font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Alon Ben-Meir, <br>
</span></font></b><font color="#080f53" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(8, 15, 83);" lang="EN-US">Professor of
International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Global Affairs, <br>
New York University.<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 12.6pt; margin-left: 12.2pt; line-height: 120%;"><font color="#080f53" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(8, 15, 83);" lang="EN-US">Date / Time: <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">January 14</span></b>,
2010 <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday</span></b> / 11.00 –
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<p style="margin-right: 12.45pt; margin-left: 12.2pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" lang="EN-US">Dear Sir / Madam,</span></font><font color="#333333"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-right: 12.45pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 12.2pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" lang="EN-US">The SETA Foundation is
pleased to invite you to a public lecture on "Turkey’s
Emerging Role in the Middle East" by Alon Ben-Meir, Professor of
International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Global Affairs, New York University. </span></font><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" lang="EN-US">T</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" lang="EN-US">he event will be held at
the SETA Foundation
on Thursday, January 14, 2010.</span></font><font color="#333333"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 12.6pt; margin-left: 12.2pt; line-height: 120%;"><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Dr. Alon Ben-Meir </span></font></b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-US">is an expert on Middle East
politics and affairs, specializing in peace negotiations between Israel
and the Arab states. For the past twenty five years, Dr. Ben-Meir has been
directly involved in various negotiations and has operated as a liaison
between top Arab and Israeli officials. Dr. Ben-Meir serves as senior fellow
at New York University's
School of Global Affairs
where he has been teaching courses on the Middle East
and negotiations for 18 years. He is also a Senior Fellow and the Middle
Eastern Studies Project Director at the World Policy Institute. Dr. Ben-Meir
hosts "Global Leaders: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir," a series
of debates and conversations with top policy-makers around the world. He also
regularly holds briefings at the US State Department for international
visitors.<br>
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Dr. Ben-Meir writes frequently and has appeared in numerous newspapers,
magazines and websites including the Middle East Times, the Christian Science
Monitor, Le Monde, American Chronicle, the Week, the Political Quarterly,
Israel Policy Forum, Gulf Times, the Peninsula,
The Jerusalem Post, and the Huffington Post. He also makes regular television
and radio appearances, and has been featured on networks such as CNN, FOX,
PBS, ABC, al Jazeera (English and Arabic), and NPR. <br>
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He has authored six books related to Middle East
policy and is currently working on a book about the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Dr. Ben-Meir holds a masters degree in philosophy and a doctorate
in international relations from Oxford
University. He is
fluent in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. <br>
<a href="http://www.alonben-meir.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alonben-meir.com/</a> </span></font></p>
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