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Dear Friends,

As many of you know, we are excited to be offering the second session of POMED's seminar courses for policy professionals this spring, featuring lectures by leading experts on political dynamics in the Middle East and U.S. tools and strategies for supporting reform. However, partly as a result of Snowmaggedon (and Snowmaggedon II), we've decided to push back the start of our spring courses by two weeks. Each course will begin the second week of March and will meet one evening a week, from 7:00-8:30, for 10 weeks. Registration is now open, and each course will be capped at 12 students, so sign up today!

The first course, "Autocratic Persistence: Sources and Varieties of Change," takes an in-depth look at the unique political context and dynamics of political change in the Middle East. This course will meet on Monday evenings beginning the week of March 8.

The second course, "Supporting Democracy in the Middle East: Tools and Strategy," examines the tools and strategies available to U.S. policymakers for encouraging genuine democratic progress, the links between these tools in theory and practice, and the process of policymaking from budgeting to decisions to execution. This course will meet on Wednesday evenings beginning on March 10.

This spring the two courses will be chaired by Marina Ottaway and Scott Carpenter, respectively, and lecturers will include Jim Kolbe, Tom Malinowksi, Rodney Bent, Nathan Brown, and Tom Melia.

More information about both seminar courses, including a full list of topics, lecturers, and recommended readings, is available on our website. Go online to register today -- and please spread the word to others who may be interested!

All the best,
Andrew


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Andrew Albertson
Executive Director
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)
1820 Jefferson Place, NW, 3rd floor
Washington, DC 20036
202-828-9660
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