Out of Crisis, Opportunity? War and Peace in Post-Oct 7 Middle East

Middle East policy expert, Robert Satloff (T’83), returns to Duke in a moderated discussion entitled “Out of Crisis, Opportunity? War and Peace in Post-October 7 Middle East” with Professor Bruce Jentleson, as part of the Provost’s Initiative on the Middle East, and cosponsored by American Grand Strategy, the Duke Center for Jewish Studies, Jewish Life at Duke, and Students Supporting Israel.

Robert Satloff is an American historian on Arab and Islamic politics, U.S.-Israel relations, and the Middle East and is the Segal Executive Director of The Washington Institute, a post he assumed in January 1993. In that capacity, he oversees all Institute operations and leads the organization’s unparalleled team of Middle East scholars, experts and policy practitioners. He also holds the Institute’s Howard P. Berkowitz Chair in U.S. Middle East Policy.

An expert on Arab and Islamic politics as well as U.S. Middle East policy, Dr. Satloff has written and spoken widely on the Arab-Israeli peace process, the challenge of Political Islam, and the need to revamp U.S. public diplomacy in the Middle East.