Fed Event: TODAY-After Mubarak:What do the Egyptian People Really Want?

After Mubarak:What do the Egyptian People Really Want?

with

Steven Kull
Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes
University of Maryland

and

Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development
University of Maryland



Wednesday, February 16

12:00-1:15pm

MEI Boardman Room

1761 N St., NW

Washington, DC

RSVP online or by emailing rsvp@mei.edu with your name and affiliation

The Middle East Institute is proud to host Steven Kull and Shibley Telhami for an examination of Egyptian views and attitudes towards governance and their future. As Egyptian demonstrators celebrate the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, many wonder what kind of system the Egyptian people really want. How do they view the Muslim Brotherhood? If Egypt were to become more democratic what are we likely to see in terms of its relation with the US, Israel and other countries in the region? These questions will be addressed by Kull and Telhami, drawing on extensive polling data from Egypt.



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Steven Kull is the director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, where he studies public and governmental attitudes on international issues. He has carried out extensive studies of public opinion in Egypt and the larger Muslim world, conducting polls and focus groups. His forthcoming book Feeling Betrayed: The Roots of Muslim Anger at America will be published next month by Brookings.



Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Saban Center of the Brookings Institution. He has conducted public opinion polls in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world for over a decade. Among his numerous publications is his best-selling book, The Stakes: America and the Middle East, which was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003.