University of Utah, Salt Lake City – The University of Utah's Middle East Center in collaboration with the Office of the President, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice President for University Relations, the College of Humanities, the College of Social and Behavioral Science, the Department of Political Science, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents a distinguished lecture series:

"U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST"

3:00-4:30 p.m.
The Dumke Auditorium, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
(south of the David Eccles School of Business)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2005
SHIBLEY TELHAMI, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17
AMBASSADOR MARTIN INDYK, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and senior fellow, Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
(2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.) this event only

HISHAM MELHEM, Washington correspondent for As-Safir, a Lebanese daily newspaper, and host of the weekly television program "Across the Ocean" on Al-Arabiya TV.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
AMBASSADOR DENNIS ROSS, Counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former Special Middle East Coordinator.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
JUDITH KIPPER, Director, Middle East Forum, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Fellow of the Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

TUESDAY, APRIL 5
AMBASSADOR EDWARD P. DJEREJIAN, the founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University

MONDAY, APRIL 11
2:00-3:30 p.m. in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah

FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES A. BAKER III, Honorary Chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University, Secretary of State 1989-1992, Secretary of the Treasury 1985-1988, and former White House Chief of Staff 1981-1985. 

for more information visit: http://www.mec.utah.edu/Lectures/2005lectures.html