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DESCRIPTION:Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11\, 2001\, th
 eir consequences continue to shape United States foreign policy\, military
  institutions\, and public memory\, as well as life across the Middle East
  and Central Asia.\n\nGeorge Washington University’s Institute for Middl
 e East Studies and the Quincy Institute’s Veterans in Foreign Policy Ini
 tiative is pleased to host an interdisciplinary panel of scholars of the M
 iddle East and military history to examine how the United States and the M
 iddle East were transformed by 9/11 and the wars that followed. The discus
 sion will consider the evolution of the U.S. military and the “Global Wa
 r on Terror\,” the consequences of prolonged counterinsurgency and natio
 n-building campaigns\, the changing politics of the Middle East\, and how 
 9/11 affected the lives of the people who live there\, with attention to b
 oth state politics and the experiences of ordinary people.\n\nPanelists wi
 ll offer brief presentations followed by an extended moderated discussion 
 and audience questions.\n\n \n\nSpeakers:\n\nDr. Sultan Alamer is a Reside
 nt Senior Fellow at the Middle East Policy Council and a member of the edi
 torial committee of Alpheratz magazine. He is also a Postdoctoral Fellow a
 t the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Alamer’s r
 esearch focuses on nationalism and nation-building\, governance and techno
 logy\, and regional politics in the broader Middle East\, with a special f
 ocus on the Arab Gulf countries. Alamer is the co-founder and a member of 
 the executive committee of the Arab Political Science Network. He is also 
 a Bucerius Fellow at Zeit-Stiftung Ebling und Gerd Bucerius. He has writte
 n for New Lines Magazine\, the Arab Reform Initiative\, Carnegie Endowment
  for International Peace\, the Middle East Research and Information Projec
 t\, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington\, The Gulf Center for Dev
 elopment Policies\, and Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum. He w
 as a weekly syndicated op-ed writer for the Arab international newspapers 
 Al-Hayat and Al-Arabi Al-Jadid\, and the Saudi newspapers Okaz and Al-Bila
 d. \n\nDr. Ilai Saltzman is an Associate Research Professor of Israel Stud
 ies\, and the Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at t
 he University of Maryland at College Park. His scholarship and teaching fo
 cus on international security\, Israeli foreign and security policy\, US f
 oreign policy\, and political psychology. Dr. Saltzman is the author of Se
 curitizing Balance of Power Theory: A Polymorphic Reconceptualization (201
 2). He is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters
 \, and of commentaries in Foreign Affairs\, the Los Angeles Times\, Ha’a
 retz\, The Jerusalem Post\, and other prominent outlets. Dr. Saltzman earn
 ed his Ph.D. in International Relations in 2010 from the University of Hai
 fa\, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Security 
 Program (ISP)\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, John
  F. Kennedy School of Government\, Harvard University (2009-2010). \n\nDr.
  David Kieran is the Professor of History and the Colonel Richard R. Hallo
 ck Distinguished University Chair in Military History at Columbus State Un
 iversity in Columbus\, GA\, where he is also the Director of the Institute
  for the Study of the American Military Experience. He is a Trustee of the
  Society For Military History and was the 2024-25 Harold K. Johnson Chair 
 of Military History at the US Army War College. He is the author of  Sig
 nature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis (
 NYU\, 2019) and Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Publi
 c Memory (Massachusetts\, 2014) as well as the editor of The War of My Gen
 eration: Youth Culture and the War on Terror (Rutgers\, 2015). He also c
 o-edited The US Army and Social Change (Forthcoming\, Cornell University P
 ress) with Beth Bailey\, Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence (Minne
 sota\, 2020) with Rebecca A. Adelman\, and At War: The Military and Americ
 an Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Rutgers\, 2018) with Edwin
  A. Martini. He is currently writing a history of organizational change 
 in the U.S. Army after Vietnam\, How the Army Saved Itself: Maxwell R. Thu
 rman and the Army’s Post Vietnam Metamorphosis (under contract\, North
  Carolina)\, and co-editing The Long War: American Experiences in Iraq (wi
 th Michael Denehy\, under contract with University of Kansas Press). \n\nD
 r. Melani McAlister is a Professor of American Studies and International A
 ffairs\, and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at The Geor
 ge Washington University. Her most recent book\, Promises\, then the Storm
 : Notes on Memory\, Protest\, and the Israel-Gaza War\, is an accessible g
 uide to the first year of the war and examines the history and politics of
  Palestine and Israel\, the role of the media\, and the power of activism.
  Her other books include The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global Histo
 ry of American Evangelicals (Oxford University Press (rev. ed. 2022\; orig
 . 2018)\, and Epic Encounters: Culture\, Media\, and U.S. Interests in the
  Middle East since 1945 (rev. ed. 2005\, orig. 2001). She is also the co-e
 ditor of several anthologies: The Cambridge History of America in the Worl
 d\, Volume 4 (2021)\, with David Engerman and Max Friedman\; Global Faith 
 and Worldly Power\, co-edited with Axel Schaefer and John Corrigan (UNC\, 
 2022)\; From Anarchy to Chaos: Generation(s) of Empire\, a special issue o
 f American Quarterly\, Sept. 2022\; and Religion and Politics in the Conte
 mporary United States\, co-edited with R. Marie Griffith (2008). \n\nAdam 
 Weinstein is deputy director of the Middle East program at the Quincy Inst
 itute and director of QI’s Veterans in Foreign Policy Initiative. His cu
 rrent research focuses on security and rule of law in Afghanistan\, Pakist
 an\, and Iraq He is also a non-resident fellow at Tadblab\, a think tank a
 nd advisory firm based in Islamabad\, and regularly travels throughout Pak
 istan. Adam’s analysis has been featured in the Washington Post\, Guardi
 an\, Foreign Policy\, War on the Rocks\, Lawfare\, and The National Intere
 st. Before coming to the Quincy Institute\, he worked for KPMG’s interna
 tional trade practice and assisted multinational clients in navigating Asi
 a’s changing trade landscape\, incorporating human rights due diligence 
 into supply chains\, managing sanctions risk\, and utilizing free trade ag
 reements. He also worked as senior law and policy analyst at the National 
 Iranian American Council where he focused on the securitization of U.S. im
 migration policy and its effect on immigrant communities. Adam received a 
 J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law with a concentration in 
 international law and transitional justice. He served as a US Marine and d
 eployed to Afghanistan in 2012 as part of a detachment to the 2nd Air Nava
 l Gunfire Liaison Company where he served in Uruzgan Province in support o
 f Australia’s 2nd Commando Regiment.
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LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, Lindner Family Commons (
 Room 602)
SUMMARY:Twenty-Five Years After 9/11: War\, Memory\, and the World It Creat
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