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SMU Tower Center Event - Middle East Lecture:  Arab Gulf States

SMU Tower Center Event - Middle East Lecture: Arab Gulf States In-Person

The SMU Tower Center presents a Middle East Lecture: Arab Gulf States.

Date: Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:00-1:30 pm

Location: Florence Hall, Room 201, 2nd floor, 3330 University Blvd. Dallas TX 75205

 

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please click below for registration.

 

 

Featuring:

Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman, President, Arab Gulf States Institute

Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman is president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He previously served as U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2016-19 and U.S. ambassador to Kuwait from 2014-16. From 2013-14, he served as a senior advisor in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, working on Iraq issues and the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Silliman was deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq from 2012-13, minister counselor for political affairs in Baghdad from 2011-12, and deputy chief of mission in Ankara, Turkey from 2008-11. He joined the Department of State in 1984. Silliman served as director and deputy director of the Department of State’s Office of Southern European Affairs, as political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Jordan, and as the regional officer for the Middle East in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. He worked as a political officer in Islamabad, Pakistan, in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, as the desk officer for Lebanon, and as a staff assistant to the assistant secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. In addition to his position as president of AGSIW, Silliman also serves on the board of advisors of the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, which helps American businesses expand their international business and trade ties, especially in the Middle East and Gulf region. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy.

 

Moderator:

Sabri Ates, Associate Professor of History,  William P. Clements Department Of History

Professor Ates specializes in Ottoman-Iranian relations, Kurdish history, late Ottoman Empire, sectarianism in the Middle East, and borderlands. He is currently working on a project tentatively called: “Sheikh Abdulqadir Nehri and the Pursuit of an Independent Kurdistan.” In addition to this project, Ates is also working on two articles: “1639 Treaty of Zohab: Founding Myth or Founding Document,” as well as an article on the role of sectarianism in Ottoman-Iranian relations.

 

Any person who requires a reasonable accommodation on the basis of a disability in order to participate in this program should contact the SMU Tower Center at tower@smu.edu in advance at least 4 days prior to the event to arrange for the accommodation.

 

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Date:
Friday, March 28, 2025
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Registrations open at 12:00pm Friday, February 21, 2025

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