The Middle East Forum at 30:

Shaping the Next Three Decades

Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.  

May 13-15, 2024

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Campus Watch and MEF Action

New Speakers Announced

Leveraging all levels of government to break the DEI/ethnic studies bureaucracy’s iron grip on Middle East studies. 

Join an exclusive group of policy leaders, subject matter experts, investigative journalists and activists, to hear about MEF’s Campus Watch and Action projects work to bring the public lasting reforms to higher education. By depoliticizing or marginalizing ethnic studies/Middle East studies and other ethnic studies departments, reduce on-campus antisemitism, and weaken or abolish the DEI/social justice bureaucracy.

Dr. Brandy Shufutinsky is a social worker, writer, and researcher committed to building intercultural learning and communication opportunities. She holds her Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco, MSW from the University of Southern California, and her MA in International Relations from the University of San Diego. Dr.Shufutinsky was a 2021 Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy Oxford Summer Institute, where she worked to develop curriculum in Critical Antisemitism Studies.


Reed Rubinstein is a former Deputy Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Education General Counsel (acting and delegated), and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Treasury. He spent more than thirty years in the private practice of law, litigating constitutional, administrative, and complex commercial trial and appellate cases; counseling publicly traded and closely held corporations on regulatory compliance, M&A, and transactional matters; and handling Executive Branch and Congressional oversight, investigations, and enforcement issues. Mr. Rubinstein is a 1985 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

More speakers will be announced next week

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Special thanks to our host committee


Pat and Richard Irving, Committee Chairs 

Talia and Ron Carner

Mr. Michael P. Levy, Chair of NextGen Outreach

Judith Friedman and Stuart Rosen

Dr. and Mrs. George Violin

For inquiries, please email Events@meforum.org or call 215-546-5406 ext. 113


Please register by May 8, 2024,

hotel rooms are limited


Conference location and hotel information will be provided upon registration

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