Forum Agenda and Participant Biographies - Brookings Institution

the Advisory Board of Business for Diplomatic Action
and of Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE),
and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lobel received a Ph.D. in International Affairs from
Harvard University’s Department of Government,
where he was also awarded the University’s top teaching
award, the Joseph Levenson Prize.
Kristin lord
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Kristin Lord is Vice President and
Director of Studies at the Center
for a New American Security
(CNAS) and a Nonresident Fellow
at the Brookings Institution.
Prior to joining CNAS, Dr. Lord
directed the science and technology initiative of the
Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at
Brookings. She served previously as Associate Dean
of The George Washington University’s Elliott School
of International, a Council on Foreign Relations International
Affairs Fellow, and Special Adviser to the
Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global
Affairs. She is the author of numerous books, articles,
and policy reports including “A New Millennium of
Knowledge? The Arab Human Development Report
on Building a Knowledge Society, Five Years On” and
“Voices of America: U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 21st
Century.” She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Government
from Georgetown University and her B.A. in
International Studies from American University.
Brie loskota
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Brie Loskota is the Managing Director
of the Center for Religion
and Civic Culture at the University
of Southern California. Additionally,
she serves as Program
Officer of the USC Pentecostal
and Charismatic Research Initiative, a global program
to transform the study of one of the world’s fastest
growing religious movements. She is co-founder and
special advisor to CRCC’s American Muslim Civic
Leadership Institute, a program that equips leaders
between the ages of twenty-five and forty with skills
to enhance civic participation. Loskota serves on a
dozen boards and advisory committees focusing on
understanding and deepening the role of religion in
society. She is a frequent speaker and writer on topics
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including interfaith engagement, faith-based human
services, and religious identity.
Marc lynch
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Marc Lynch is Associate Professor
of Political Science and the Director
of the Institute for Middle
East Studies and of the Project on
Middle East Political Science at
the Elliott School of International
Affairs at George Washington University. He is also a
non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for a New
American Security and edits the Middle East Channel
for ForeignPolicy.com. Dr. Lynch is the author of
Voices of the New Arab Public (2006) and State Interests
and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan’s
Identity (1999), and writes frequently on Arab
media, public diplomacy, Islamist movements, Iraq,
and Middle East politics for journals such as Foreign
Affairs and Middle East Policy. He received his B.A. in
political science from Duke University and his M.A.
and Ph.D. in government from Cornell University.
Mirette F. Mabrouk
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Mirette F. Mabrouk is Director of
Communications for the Economic
Research Forum (ERF). She was
previously a Nonresident Fellow at
the Saban Center for Middle East
Policy at Brookings and was formerly
Associate Director for Publishing Operations at The
American University in Cairo (AUC) Press. Mabrouk
has over 20 years of experience in journalism. She is the
founding publisher of The Daily New Egypt, Egypt’s only
independent English-language daily newspaper and the
former Publishing Director for IBA Media, which produces
the region’s top English-language magazines. Ms.
Mabrouk holds a B.A. in Mass Communication and an
M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from AUC.
al-husein N. Madhany
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al-Husein N. Madhany is Chief
of Staff to the World Leadership
Program, which builds relationships
between the most promising
young faculty and students of
Al-Azhar University in Cairo and