ISRAELI – US RELATIONS

Transatlantic Institute interview with Ambassador Danny

                                        Ayalon,

                                         19 August 2008

Danny Ayalon served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from July 2002 to November 2006. From 1997-2002, prior to his appointment to the United States, Ayalon served as Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyiahu and Ehud Barak, and as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister executive.

EU – TURKISH RELATIONS

Transatlantic Institute interview with Soner Cagaptay,

14 August 2008

Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, includingWall Street Journal, Middle East Quarterly, Middle Eastern Studies, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek. He also appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN-Turk, and al-Hurra.

SAUDI ARABIA: THE MECCA AND MADRID INTERFAITH CONFERENCES

Transatlantic Institute interview with Jean Francois Seznec,

31 July 2008

Dr. Seznec is Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. His research centers on the influence of the Arab-Persian Gulf political and social variables on the financial and oil markets in the region. He is focusing on the industrialization of the Gulf and in particular the growth of the petrochemical industry. He is Senior Advisor to PFC Energy in Washington, DC. He holds a MIA from Columbia University [1963], a MA and his Ph.D. from Yale University [1994]. He has published and lectured extensively on Petrochemicals and energy based industries in the Gulf and their importance in world trade. He is interviewed regularly on national TV, radio and newspapers, as well as by the foreign media.

THE LEVANT: SYRIA, ISRAEL AND LEBANON VIS-À-VIS HEZBOLLAH AND IRAN

Transatlantic Institute interview with Claude Salhani,

Claude Salhani is Editor of the Middle East Times and a contributing editor to United Press International. He specializes in political analysis of the Mideast & terrorism.

ISRAELI POLITICS: OLMERT, EUROPE AND IRAN

Transatlantic Institute interview with David Horovitz, June 24 2008

David Horovitz is the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, Israel’s English-language daily. Previously, he served as editor and publisher of the award-winning newsmagazine The Jerusalem Report, and has written from Israel for newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Irish Times and (London) Independent. He is a frequent interviewee on CNN, the BBC, Sky, Fox News, NPR and other TV and radio stations, and lectures widely on Israeli current affairs. Horovitz is the author of 2004’s “Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism,” and  “A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel” (2000).

ISRAELI – SYRIAN TALKS

 Transatlantic Institute interview with Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich

1 June 2008

Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich is Visiting Professor of Public Policy, is the President of Tel Aviv University (TAU). He is a Senior Research Fellow at TAU's Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and incumbent of the Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East. Rabinovich is also the Andrew White Professor at Large at Cornell University. Rabinovich was Israel's Chief Negotiator with Syria under the late Yitzhak Rabin and Ambassador in Washington from 1993 to 1996. He has served as Director of the Moshe Dayan Center, Dean of the Entin Faculty of Humanities, and TAU Rector. He is the author of several books including Syria Under the Ba'th; The War for Lebanon; The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations; The Brink of Peace: Israel and Syria; and Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century; he has also written numerous articles, essays, and chapters in books as well as articles in leading professional journals.