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Marc Chagall’s Self-Portrait with Easel, 1919. Jewish Museum.
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Mary Mohammadi
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks to supporters following the announcement of exit polls in Israel's election at his Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Saudi Arabia's Prince and Defence Minister Mohammad bin Salman al Saud (L) attend their bilateral talks at the G20 Osaka Summit 2019, on June 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. Vladimir Putin has arrived to Japan to partci
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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Ahmad Hashemi
Research Fellow
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Rania Kisar
Research Fellow
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
