at Brookings May 28-31, 2012 • Doha, Qatar

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Monday, May 28 11:00am-12:45pm Plenary I: Political Change: The Dynamics of Domestic 6:00pm-9:00pm Participant Arrivals and Registration Transformations* Ritz-Carlton Hotel Al Wosail Ballroom Lower Lobby Moderator: Salman Shaikh, Fellow and Director, 8:00pm Welcome Reception hosted by Brookings Doha Center, Qatar the Organization of Islamic Cooperation* Panelists: Hossam Bahgat, Founder and Director, Al Wosail Foyer Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Egypt Introductory Remarks: Anies Baswedan, Rector, Paramadina Durriya Badani, Deputy Director, Project on University, Indonesia U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings, Rached Ghannouchi, Co-Founder, Ennahdha, Tunisia Speakers: Mohamed bin Abdulla Al-Rumaihi, Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Ambassador to the United States, Qatar Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of State, United States Rashad Hussain, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, United 1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch States The Lagoon Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Turkey 2:15pm-5:30pm Working Group Sessions (Closed) . Compassion: An Urgent Global Tuesday, May 29 Imperative Al Mukhtasar II 6:30am Breakfast convened by: Karen Armstrong, The The Lagoon Charter for Compassion

9:00am-10:30am Registration . Democratic Transitions Lower Lobby Al Mukhtasar I convened by: Salman Shaikh and Shadi 10:30am-11:00am Welcoming Remarks* Hamid, Brookings Doha Center Al Wosail Ballroom . Developing New Mechanisms to Speakers: Promote the Muslim Charitable Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Jabr Al- Sector Thani, Minister’s Assistant for International Fateh Al Khair I Cooperation Affairs and the Chairman of convened by: Dean Dilley and the Permanent Committee for Organizing Elizabeth Ryan, Patton Boggs LLP Conferences, Qatar . Water Security in the Middle East Martin Indyk, Vice President and Director, and North Africa Foreign Policy at Brookings, United States Al Sabia convened by: Syed Iqbal Hasnain and David Michel (Stimson Center) and Amit *Open to the media Pandya 6:30pm-9:30pm Gala Dinner* 9:15am-11:00am Working Group Sessions (Closed) Al Wosail Ballroom 11:15am-12:45pm Plenary II: Social Change: The 6:45pm All participants and guests must be Power of Non-State Actors* seated. Al Wosail Ballroom 7:00pm-8:30pm Introductory Remarks: Moderator: Martin Indyk, Vice President and Director, Stephen R. Grand, Fellow and Director, Foreign Policy at Brookings, United States Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic Featured Speakers: World at Brookings, United States Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani, Panelists: Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Qatar Zainah Anwar, Founder, Sisters in Islam; Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister, Director, Musawah, Malaysia Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General, Tawakkol Karman, Activist and 2011 Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Turkey Nobel Peace Laureate, Yemen 8:30pm-9:30pm After-Dinner Panel Discussion: Rami Nashashibi, Executive Director, Confronting Change: Challenge and Inner-City Muslim Action Network, United Opportunity States Moderator: Iqbal Noor Ali, Senior Advisor, Aga Khan Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow Development Network, United States and Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, United States 1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch The Lagoon Panelists: Abdallah bin Bayyah, Sheikh, King 3:00pm-5:30pm “The Long Conversation” – A Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia Special Session Saeb Erekat, Chief Negotiator, Palestinian Al Wosail Ballroom Liberation Organization, Palestine This year’s signature event is a town Tawakkol Karman, Activist and 2011 hall-style discussion that will explore Nobel Peace Laureate, Yemen the dynamic relationship between citizen, religion, and the state in a Wednesday, May 30 changing world. Moderators: Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow 6:30am Breakfast and Director, Saban Center for Middle East The Lagoon Policy at Brookings, United States 8:00am-9:00am Arts and Culture Panel* Peter Mandaville, Director, Ali Vurak Ak Al Wosail Ballroom Center for Islamic Studies, George Mason University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Moderator: Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic Cynthia Schneider, Nonresident Senior World at Brookings, United States Fellow, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings, United States Salman Shaikh, Fellow and Director, Brookings Doha Center, Qatar Panelists: Khaled Abol Naga, Actor, Producer, and 5:30pm-6:30pm Keynote Addresses* UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Egypt Al Wosail Ballroom Saad Mohseni, Chairman and Chief Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah, Executive Officer, MOBY Group, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Qatar Afghanistan Denis McDonough, Walter Parkes, Film Producer and Writer,  Assistant to the Parkes/MacDonald Productions, United President and Deputy National Security States Advisor, United States

*Open to the media 7:30pm-8:00pm Departures to Dinner 9:15am-10:45am Working Group Sessions (Closed) Ritz-Carlton Main Entrance 11:00am-11:30am Keynote Address* 8:00pm-10:00pm Dinner Al Wosail Ballroom Mamig Restaurant Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Minister, Thursday, May 31 11:30am-1:15pm Plenary III: Strategic Change: New 6:30am Breakfast Geopolitical Challenges and The Lagoon Closing Remarks* Al Wosail Ballroom 8:00am-9:00am 2012 U.S. Presidential Election Panel* Moderator: Al Wosail Ballroom Martin Indyk, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy at Brookings, United States Moderator: Panelists: Michael Doran, Senior Fellow, Saban Endy Bayuni, Senior Editor, the Jakarta Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, Post, Indonesia United States Nabil Fahmy, Dean, School of Global Affairs Panelists: and Public Policy, American University in William A. Galston, Ezra Zilkha Chair, Cairo, Egypt Governance Studies at Brookings, United Colin Kahl, Senior Fellow, Center for a New States American Security, United States Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director and Hina Rabbani Khar, Foreign Minister, Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Pakistan Studies, United States Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Hoover Shibley Telhami, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Institution, United States Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; Anwar Sadat Chair, University of 1:30pm-2:30pm Lunch Maryland, United States The Lagoon

*Open to the media