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On behalf of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, I am so pleased to invite you to join us in-person for our Annual Mid-Atlantic Summit with Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) on Monday, February 6^th from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. This year’s summit will be held at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, DE.

Slava Ukrayini! Join The Philadelphia Citizen for a morning with MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi, who has just returned from six weeks of reporting from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Velshi's reports were explanatory and moving, bearing witness to barbarism and contextualizing tragedy. Now he'll fill you in on what war zone reporting is like off-camera—and how it's changed him and should change us. In conversation with Citizen co-founder Larry Platt.

Secretary Gates will award the 2022 Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service posthumously to late EF Trustee and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright at the Annual Awards Dinner at 6:30 PM on Thursday, May 19 at the National Constitution Center.

Every year, military airstrikes in conflict zones like Iraq, Syria, and Libya result in thousands of civilian deaths and displacement. To shed light on the impact that civilians face in these conflict zones, the Council is hosting a discussion with the Director of Airwars, a non-profit transparency organization working to track, assess, and archive military actions and related civilian harm claims in conflict zones.

The Middle East Center at UPenn will be hosting Dr. Rosie Bsheer in conversation with Professor Robert Vitalis. They will be lecturing and conversing on the politics and history of Saudi Arabia.

The Middle East Center, co-sponsored by: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program are hosting The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. In The Moral Triangle, Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere.