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and Sustainable Development

Kurdistan’s Long Struggle Against Extremism

Major General Sirwan Barzani is a Kurdish military commander in charge of the Ministry of Peshmerga’s Sector 6, tasked with the defense of Erbil. He is also the founder of Korek Telecom, an Iraqi Kurdish mobile operator. You may follow him on Twitter @SirwanBarzani_.

America and Iran’s Tough Tango with the Gulf States

Alex Vatanka is Director of the Iran Program and a Senior Fellow in the Frontier Europe Initiative at the Middle East Institute in Washington. His most recent book is The Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran: The United States, Foreign Policy, and Political Rivalry Since 1979 (2021). You may follow him on Twitter @AlexVatanka.

Changing the Global Culture

Nabil Fahmy is a Former Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Dean Emeritus of the American University in Cairo. You may follow him on Twitter @DeanNabilFahmy and contact him via email: [email protected].