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Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East with Michael Doran
Monday, March 13 at 7 pm. One Holly Hill Lane, Greenwich. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Register at jccgreenwich.org.
How did the Suez Crisis shape America’s outsized regional role from 1956 on? Retrace President Eisenhower’s fateful moves of six decades ago, with a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute who served as a Middle East advisor to the George W. Bush administration.
Monday, March 13 • 7 pm
At One Holly Hill Lane, Greenwich
Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Register at JCCGreenwich.org or call 203-552-1818.
Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He specializes in Middle East security issues.
In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council, where he was responsible for helping to devise and coordinate United States strategies on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and U.S. efforts to contain Iran and Syria. He also served in the Bush administration as a senior advisor in the State Department and a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon.
Before coming to Hudson, Doran was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has also held teaching positions at NYU, Princeton, and the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Pan-Arabism before Nasser, which analyzes the first Arab-Israeli war as an inter-Arab conflict, and is now completing a book for Simon and Schuster about President Eisenhower and the Middle East. He appears frequently on television, and has published extensively in Foreign Affairs, The American Interest, Commentary, Mosaic Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
