The Shabby Tale of Qatar's Ex-CIA Hire

with Gregg Roman

Recently obtained documents reveal that a former CIA officer named Kevin Chalker may have spied on Qatar’s rivals to help it secure the 2022 World Cup and allege he may have offered his services to it to influence U.S. foreign policy. Various questions arise as the FBI determines whether Chalker's activities violated U.S. laws related to foreign lobbying, surveillance, and tradecraft: Why did Chalker aid Qatar? What benefit did he bring it? What lessons can be learned from this scandal?
Monday, November 14, 2022
2:00pm - 2:30pm. ET
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Gregg Roman is director of the Middle East Forum. He previously worked for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and as a political advisor to Israel's deputy foreign minister. In 2014, the JTA named him one of the ten most inspiring Jewish leaders . He attended American University and Reichman University.

Israel Insider

with Ashley Perry

As Israel's Knesset (parliament) is sworn in this week, what are the implications of the country's prospective most right-wing and religious government ever?
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
3:00 - 3:30p.m. ET
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Focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood, as Revealed in a New Book

with Daniel Pipes, Cynthia Farahat, and Jonathan Schanzer

Daniel Pipes will provide a summary of Cynthia Farahat's book, The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood's Industry of Death (2022).
Cynthia Farahat will discuss what she means by the "secret apparatus."
Jonathan Schanzer will address the ways in which the U.S. government should approach the Muslim Brotherhood.
Friday, November 18, 2022
*Note: This event is one hour long.
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET
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Daniel Pipes, a historian, has led the Middle East Forum since its founding in 1994. He taught at Chicago, Harvard, Pepperdine, and the U.S. Naval War College. He served in five U.S. administrations, received two presidential appointments, and testified before many congressional committees. He is the author of 16 books on the Middle East, Islam, and other topics.
Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian-American author, columnist, political analyst, counterterrorism expert, and fellow at the Middle East Forum. She has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, briefed more than two hundred congressional offices, and advised intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, he is the author of four books on the Middle East and was a research fellow at the Middle East Forum in 2002-03.

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