february, 2022

21feb19:0021:00Turkey and the Gulf: New realignments, new priorities?

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Event Description

This webinar is a follow-up to the previous event “De-escalation in the Middle East: A strategic pause or the new reality”, and focuses on the so-called reconciliation between Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Turkey. This event will serve as a forum for a fruitful discussion about Turkey’s access to the GCC in light of the current normalization and mild de-escalation in the extended Middle East. Apart from the rapprochement between Turkey and these two monarchies, what can we expect from the other GCC monarchies, notably Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, in regard to their relations with Turkey? With this in mind, the webinar will examine how to approach Turkey’s relations with the GCC in the current normalization era: can it help to realign regional priorities? 

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Time

(Monday) 19:00 - 21:00

Location

Online - Zoom

Speakers for this event

  • Sinan Hatahet

    Sinan Hatahet

    Senior Associate Fellow at Al Sharq Strategic Research

    Sinan Hatahet is currently a consultant working with a number of think tanks on Syria. His research is concentrated on governance and local councils, anti-radicalization, Islamism, the Kurdish National Movement, and the new regional order in the Middle East. He previously worked as the executive director of the Syrian National Coalition (SC) media office from its creation in late 2012 until September 2014.

    Senior Associate Fellow at Al Sharq Stra...

  • Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

    Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

    Rice University\'s Baker Institute for Public Policy & Associate Fellow, Chatham House.

    Rice University\'s Baker Institute for P...

  • Betul Dogan Akkas

    Betul Dogan Akkas

    Al Sharq Strategic Associate fellow

    Al Sharq Strategic Associate fellow

  • Simon Mabon

    Simon Mabon

    Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Lancaster University

    Dr. Simon Mabon is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Lancaster University where he directs the Richardson Institute. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Leeds and is the director of the SEPAD Project, funded by Carnegie Corporation which looks at the impact of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the contemporary Middle East.

    Senior Lecturer in International Relatio...

  • Khalid Al Mezaini

    Khalid Al Mezaini

    Associate Professor at Zayed University

    Khalid Al Mezaini is an Assistant Professor, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. He was working before at Qatar University, where he teaches in the Gulf Studies Program, and a visiting research fellow at LSE. Prior to joining Qatar University, he was a research fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

    Associate Professor at Zayed University

  • Abdulla Baabood

    Abdulla Baabood

    Chair of the State of Qatar in Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University, Japan

    Abdullah Baabood is an academic from Oman with wide regional and international experience. He was previously the director of the Gulf Studies Program at the Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University and director of the Gulf Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is the Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies and Visiting Professor, Faculty of International Research and Education, Waseda University, Japan.

    Chair of the State of Qatar in Islamic A...

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