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NUSACC is very pleased to invite you to our first webinar of 2021, launching our new Thought Leaders Series.  The event on January 26 kicks off NUSACC's golden anniversary year, marking 50 years of service to U.S. - Arab commercial relations. 

We are delighted to feature Daniel Yergin on January 26, and we hope that you will be there, too!   
- David Hamod, President & CEO

In partnership with: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Unrest in Syria grew out of discontent with the Assad government and escalated to an armed conflict after protests calling for his removal were violently suppressed. The ensuing Syrian Civil War might well be the deadliest conflict the 21st century has witnessed so far.

“Revered among aficionados of Persian classical and folk music, Sahba Motallebi is a virtuoso performer on the long-necked stringed instruments known as tar and setar. ” – LA Weekly

Imagine . . . You were in charge and it was your job to bring peace to the world. What would you do?

SUKHISHILI has performed for fifty million people in eighty-eight countries on five continents. It was a headline attraction with New York City Ballet for the George Balanchine Centennial. It has previously performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden Albert Hall, the Rome Coliseum and La Scala where it was enthusiastically welcomed with rousing ovation and a record-setting number of curtain calls.

Death sentences for members of the Muslim Brotherhood were recently handed down by Egypt’s criminal court, and more than 100,000 Syrians have died as a result of the carnage of Syria’s civil war. Yet, millions of Iraqis embraced the right to vote in recent elections, and in other countries, new governments and constitutions are in place.

Dr. Paul Salem, Vice President for Policy and Research at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., will join the discussion about the historic changes taking place in the Middle East and will offer his insights on the rapidly-changing political, social and economic conditions in Egypt, Syria and their neighbors.