Date 

Time

Event

Monday 
5 April 2004

9.00 A.M.

Registrations and Introductions

11.00 - 12.00

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Opening Ceremony         (Ritz Carlton Hotel)                  ( Al Waseel)
Keynote Speech by: H.H. Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of                                  Qatar.

• Hamad Bin Jassim Al-Thani,  First Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
                                                      State of Qatar

• Abdelwahed Belkaziz            - Secretary General, Islamic Conference Organisation.

• Pierre Joxe                             - Former Minister, Member of  the Council on Constitutional
                                                      Affairs, France

• Mushahid Hussain Syed       - Senator, Former Minister of Information, Pakistan

• Rupert Redesdale                 - House of Lords, U.K

• James Sensenbrenner          - U.S.A.

12.00 - 13.30

Speakers :

• Mohammed Fayek  - General Secretary at the Arab Human Rights Organization, Egypt

• Georges Fenech    - Deputy National Assembly, Frence

• Naseeb Lahood      - Deputy, Head of Democratic Renewal Movement

• Hans D’Orville        - Representative of General Director UNESCO,

• Ernest Ross            - MP, U.K.

• Paul Rayan              - U.S.A.

13.30 - 15.30

Coffee Break

16.00 - 17.30

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First Session:  -A-                             (Mokhtasar I)

“ Shaping Public Opinion & Democratization: The role of the Arab Media ”
Organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S.A

        ¨ Judith Kipper - Director, Middle East Programs, Council on Foreign Relations

• M.C Andrews                  - Director, White House Office of Global Communications
• Mourad Chebine            - Chief Editor in Abu Dhabi TV
• Bechara El Bonn            - Director of Radio Monte Carlo
• Christopher Isham         - Chief , Investigative Projects for ABC News
• Ghassan Moukahal        - From Al Arabia TV
• Waddah Aref Khanfar    - Director, Al Jazeera Channel
• Martin Walker                 - Editor-in-Chief, United Press International

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First Session:  -B-                             (Mokhtasar II)

"Politics & Economics Of Energy in the Next Generations" Organized by the Islamic Institute U.S.A

• Khaled Saffuri - Chairman, Islamic Institute
   
• Richard Abdoo    - Chairman Wisconsin Energy
• Doug Bandow      - Senior Fellow, CATO Institute
• E. William Cattan - Jr.Latham & Watkins LLP
• Paul Ryan             - Congressman U.S.A
• Fred Smith           - President, Competitive Enterprise Institute

17.30 - 18.00

Coffee Break

18.00 - 19.30

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SECOND SESSION  -A-                      (Mokhtasar I)

"Education and its  Role in Promoting  the Democratic Process"
 Organized by Qatar University, Gulf Studies Center. Qatar

¨ Hassan Al-Ansari - Director, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, Doha

• Abdel Hamed Al Ansari - Former Dean of Faculty of Shariaa & Law, Doha

• Shikha Al Gefery           - Member, Central Municipal Council, Doha
• Ibrahem Arafat               - Academic & Expert in Politics, Doha
• Ahmed Bishara              - Secretary General , Democratic National Union, Kuwait
• Yussef El Hassan          - General Director of Emirates Diplomatic Institute,
                                             Ministry of Foreign Affairs U.A.E

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SECOND SESSION  -B-                      (Mokhtasar II)

"How Economic Development Promotes Democratization"

Organized by the Council on Foreign Relations  U.S.A

¨   Judith Kipper  - Directors, Middle East Programs, Council on Foreign Relations

• Odeh Aburdene            - Managing Director, C.T. Capital International, Inc

• Isobel Coleman             - Council on Foreign Relations, New York

• Randa Fahmy Hudome - President, Fahmy Hudome International

• Elliot Schrage                - Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, San Fransisco

Tuesday
6 April  2004

10.00 - 11.30

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THIRD SESSION     -A-             (Mokhtasar I)

"The Change towards Democracy in the Arab World – Cases & Issues"
Organized by the Arab Organization for Human Rights. Egypt

¨    Mohammed Faeq - General Secretary at the Arab Human Rights Organization

• Ibrahem Al Haydous - President, Central Municipal Council, Doha
• Nasser Aruri             - Chancellor Professor ( Emeritus ), University of  Massachusetts, U.S.A

• Mohsen Awad           - Ass. Sec. General of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Author & Lecturer at the Arab Research Institute, Cairo

• Burhan Ghalioun     - Director, Center for Modern East Studies & Professor in Political Social
                                       Studies - Sorbonne University Paris
• Alain Marsaud          - Deputy, Parliament ( Assemblee Nationale )   , Paris

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10.00 - 11.30

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THIRD SESSION     -B-                (Mokhtasar II)

"Free  Trade & Democratization in the Arab World: The Role Of Good Governance and CIVIL Society"
Organized by the Studies & Research Center for Arab and Mediterranean World. Geneva

¨   Hasni Abidi - Director of CERMAM

• Ali Benouari             - Former Minister , Algiers, President of Societe Generale (Algiers ), President of Economy Finance, Geneva

• Mohamed Bouacha - Professor of Int’l Relations, University of Algiers

• Victoria C. Price       - Former Director of the European Institute & Professor of Economics, University of Geneva

• Luis Martinez           - Professor, Institute for Political  Studies and Center for Int’l
                                       Studies,Paris, Former Professor at Columbia University
• Antoine Maurice      - Professor, University of Geneva and  University of Neuchatel,
                                       Switzerland
• Charles F.Nothomb - State Minister of Belgium, President of MEDEA

11.30 - 11.45

Coffee Break

11.45 - 13.00

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11.45 - 13.00

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¨  Rosemary Hollis - Head of Middle East Programme at Royal Institute of International
                                     Affairs

• Saad Dejbbar   - Deputy Director of the Centre of North African Studies, Cambridge University

• Soli Ozel           - Associate Fellow RIIA &  Lecturer at Bilgi University , Turkey
• Claire Spencer - Associate Fellow RIIA & Director of Christian Aid In The Middle East
• Paul Stevens    - Professor of Petroleum  Policy & Economy from University of Dundee
• Phyllis Starkey  - MP, U.K.

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¨  Ghassan Abdulkhalek - Director , Arab Press Club, Paris

• Walid Chmait              - Journalist & Writer, Paris
• Kamal Hamdan           - Former Minister, Economic Researcher, American University of Beirut
• Mona Makram-Ebeid - Former Member of Parliament, Professor, Political Sciences, A.U.C.
• Marc Yared                 - Journalist - writer

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