The Arab Spring: One Year On

January 2012

Past Event

The Arab Spring: One Year On

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

January 11, 2012

January 2012

Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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Speakers:

Nina Shea,

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of Center for Religious Freedom

Walter Russell Mead,

James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities, Bard College and Editor-at-Large of <i>The American Interest</i>

Samuel Tadros,

Hudson Research Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Kurt Werthmuller,

Hudson Research Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom was pleased to host noted scholars for an analysis of the potential short- and long-term implications and consequences of the Arab Spring. Panelists focused on the political ascendancy of Islamist organizations, the impact on religious minorities of the region, and the movement within its broader geopolitical and historical context.

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