Day 1: 15 April 2017
09:15 - 09:30:
Opening by Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani, Chairman of the Board of Al Jazeera Media Network
Welcome Speech by Salah Eddin Elzein, Director of Al Jazeera Centre for Studies
09:30 – 10:00: 1st Keynote Speech: HE Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for the Council of Ministers’ Affairs in Qatar
10:30 - 12:00: 1st Plenary Session: The Arab State: Historical context and aspects of current crises
Speakers:
Riyad Hijab, Former Prime Minister of Syria and General Coordinator of the Opposition Higher Negotiations Committee
Sadiq Al-Mahdi, Former Prime Minister of Sudan and Head of the National Umma Party
Youssef Choueiri, Professor of History at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Haitham Alnahi, Researcher and Director General of the Arab Organization of Translation
Mohamed Jabroun, Professor of History and Researcher at the Regional Centre for Education in Tangier, Morocco
12:00 - 12:30: Coffee break
12:30 - 14:00: 2nd Plenary Session: Does the Arab Spring still represent a prospect for reform domestically and regionally?
Speakers:
Abou Yaareb Marzouki, Professor of Philosophy and Former Adviser to the Prime Minister of Tunisia
Sadqa Fadel, Member of the Saudi Shura Council and Former Head of the Department of Political science at King Abdulaziz University
J.J. Messner, Executive Director of the Fund for Peace
Adel Al Shargabi, Professor of Sociology at Sana’a University
Mohamed El Koukhi, Researcher specialized in Development Economics
14:00 - 15:30: Lunch break
15:30 - 17:00: 3rd Plenary Session: Powers and projects in the Middle East: Is conflict inevitable?
Speakers:
Fahmy Howeidy, Journalist and Former Deputy Chief-Editor of Al-Ahram
Khalid Al-Dakhil, Former Professor of Political Sociology at King Saud University
Louisa Driss Ait Hamadouche, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Algiers
Dirdeiry Mohammed Ahmed, Professor of Law at the University of Khartoum
Galip Dalay, Research Director at Al Sharq Forum
17:00 - 17:30: Book signing: African Borders and Secession in International Law by Dirdeiry Mohammed Ahmed
17:30 - 19:00: The youth and the crisis of the Arab state (organized by Al Jazeera Net)
Speakers:
Khalil al-Anani, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Mohamed El-Moctar Shinqiti, Associate Professor of Political Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Mu’taz Alkhatib, Assistant Professor of Methodology and Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University
20:00 - 22:00: Gala Dinner/Speech by Craig Murray, Historian and Former British Ambassador
Day 2: 16 April 2017
10:00 - 12:00: 4th Plenary Session: Human rights in political transition (organized by Al Jazeera Centre for Human Rights and Public Liberties)
Speakers:
Refik Hodzic, Director of Communications at the International Center for Transitional Justice
Ahmed Benchemsi, Advocacy and Communications Director for the Human Rights Watch’s MENA Division
Abdulwahad Badrakhan, Journalist and Political Analyst
Mohamed Jamil Ould Mansour, Chairman of the National Rally for Reform and Development in Mauritania
Ghanim Al-Najjar, Professor of Political Science at Kuwait University
12:00 - 12:30: Coffee break
12:30 - 14:00: 5th Plenary Session: 100 years after the Balfour Declaration: What does the existence of Israel mean for the region?
Speakers:
Burhan Ghalioun, Director of the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Sorbonne University
Basheer Nafi, Professor of Middle East History and Senior Researcher at Al Jazeera Centre for Studies
Amani Senwar, Researcher in Human Rights and International Relations
Ali Kazak, Former Palestinian Ambassador and Founder of the Australia-Arab Affairs Council
Abbas Khamayar, Iranian Diplomat and the Chairman of the Palestine Committee in the Culture and Islamic Relations Organisation
14:00 - 15:30: Lunch break
15:30 - 17:00: 6th Plenary session: Where is the Middle East headed?
Speakers:
Vitaly Naumkin, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies and a Political Adviser to the UN envoy to Syria
Hassan Nafaa, Professor of Political Science and Former Head of the Department of Political Science at Cairo University
Adnan Hayajneh, Professor of Political Science at Qatar University
Zahra Babar, Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar
Ilyas El-Omari, General Secretary of the Authenticity and Modernity Party in Morocco
Tarik Yousef, Director of the Brookings Doha Center
17:00 - 17:30: Closing remarks by Salah Eddin Elzein, Director of Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and Chairman of the Higher Organising Committee of the 11th Al Jazeera Forum
