Speakers

John D. Anthony

John D. Anthony is president and general director of the National Council
on U.S.-Arab Relations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and co-founder of many groups such as the Commission on Israeli-Palestinian
Peace. He is the only non-Arab personality to have participated in all heads
of states summits of the Gulf Cooperation Council since it was created.

Ghazi Aridi

Ghazi Aridi is the Lebanese Minister of information.
 

Prince Issa El Ayoubi

Prince Issa El Ayoubi is a journalist. After having being a secultar
political leader in the Near East, he became a specialist of Euro-Arab
relations. He is the publishing director of Intelligencia and is a
vice-president of the Voltaire Network.

Issam Azzaim

Issam Azzaim is a former Minister of Industry of the Arab Syrian Republic.
 
 

Maan Bashour

Maan Bashour is a writer. He's the head of the Arab Nationalist Institute in
Beirut and president of the Assembly of Popular Committees and Leagues in
Lebanon. At the international level he is Secretary General of the Arab
National Conference.

 

Andreas von Bülow

Andreas von Bülow is a lawyer. He was a parliament member (social-democrat)
for 25 years, secretary of State and minister. At the Bundestag, he was a
member of the Parliamentary secret services control committee, where he shed
the light on the CIA's implication in various criminal operations that
claimed a number of German lives during the Cold War. In 2002 he published
an investigative work on the September 11th, 2001 attacks, in which he
blames a faction of United States' secret services (...)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Boutros Boutros Ghali is a diplomat. Egyptian Foreign Affairs minister from
1977 to 1991, he was one of the main engineers of the peace agreements with
Israel and was wounded during the assassination of President Sadate in 1981.
As a Secretary General of the UN from 1992 to 1996, he tried to reinforce
the political role of the organisation, but was confronted to U.S.
isolationism and was prevented by the United States and the United Kingdom
from carrying on a second term. He was Secretary (...)

Giulietto Chiesa

Giulietto Chiesa is a journalist. He was a press correspondent for El
Manifesto and Avvenimenti, and collaborated with many radios and television
channels in Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Russia and Vatican. Author
of many books, he wrote about the dismemberment of the USSR, and
United-Stater imperialism among other subjects. He has been an outspoken
opponent to the Italian participation in the invasion of Iraq. In 2004 he
was elected as a member of the European Parliament (Democrat (...)

Mohammad Hassanein Haykal

Mohammad Hassanein Haykal is a journalist and philosopher. He was Gamal
Abdel Nasser's spokesperson and the inspirator of panarabism.

 

Enrique Román Hernández

Enrique Román Hernández is a journalist and diplomat. He was director of
Granma and president of the Cuban Radio and Television Institute. After
being the Cuban ambassador to Lebanon and Jordan, he was elected
vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship among the Peoples
(ICAP). He is also a member of the left for Strategic Studies of the
Havana Higher Institute for International (...)

Salim Al Hoss

Salim Al-Hoss is an economist. Former president of the Lebanese banking
control commission, he was appointed Prime minister on three occasions
(1976-80, 1987-90, 1998-2000) in difficult circumstances. He managed to
maintain the country's stability in spite of its inner conflicts and its
external meddlings.

Su Jingxiang

Dr. Su Jingxiang is an economist, associate professor at the left for
research on Globalisation and vice-director of the Chinese Institute of
Contemporary International Relations.

Mehdi Al Khalissi

The honourable Sheik Mehdi Al-Khalissi is one of the highest shi'ite
authorities in Iraq. He has committed himself to the defense of the unity
and independance of his country occupied by the Coalition's armies.

Hind Al Khoury

Hind Al-Khoury is the special representative for the Palestinian authority
in Jerusalem.

Jhannett Madriz Sotil

Jhannett Madriz Sotillo is a lawyer. She defended colonel Hugo Chavez Frias
before Venezuela's martial court when he was arrested for refusing to fire
on the crowd and turning against the government. A co-founder of the
Movement for the 5th Republic, she is a member of the Bolivarian movement's
High Council. She was vice-president of the Andean Parliament and president
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the (...)

Saad Mehio

Saad Mehio is a columnist. He regularly signs articles for the Daily Star
(Beirut), Al Khaleej (Dubai), and Dar Al Hayat (London). He authored many
books such as The Arabs and Globalization.

 

Thierry Meyssan

Thierry Meyssan is a writer and international consultant. He is the national
secretary of PRG, a French left-left political party. He is the president
of Voltaire Network, an international association advocating individual
freedoms and "laicité" (the separation between state and religion). He is
also editor of voltairenet.org, an electronic daily specialised in
international politics. He has particularly committed himself to the
dialogue between (...)

 

Amr Moussa

Amr Moussa is a diplomat. He was the Egyptian ambassador to India and the
UN, before taking the Foreign Affairs minister position (1991-2001). He
stood out by his firm criticism of Israeli crimes in Lebanon. He has been
the General Secretary of the Arab League since 2001 and has refused to run
for the Egyptian presidential elections despite numerous petitions in his
favour.

 

Nawaf El Musawi

Nawaf El Musawi is in charge of International relations for Hizbullah.

James Petras

James Petras is a scholar. He teaches sociology at the New York State
University. He has developed a marxist critic of globalisation as a paradigm
of the new United Stater imperialism.

General Vinod Saighal

Major-General Vinod Saighal is a former general director of the Indian army's
military training. He was an embassy military attaché in France and Benelux,
and commander-in-chief of the peacekeeping forces in the Near East. Today he
is the founder of the Movement for Restoration of Good Government (MRGG) and
head of Eco Monitors Society (EMS). He is the author of numerous works on
strategy and political analysis, and has recently published Dealing with
Global Terrorism: The Way (...)

Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago is an editor, a literature critic and a writer of portuguese
language. He expresses himself in a unique style which ignores classical
forms in order to impose his own rythm to the discourse, using fiction to
denounce political and religious power abuses. He has received the Nobel
Prize of litterature in 1998, and was commited to the movement against
forced globalization and (...)

Ahmad Tibi

Ahmad Tibi is a doctor. He was an advisor to Palestinian Authority President
Yasser Arafat for many years and participated to the Wye River peace talks.
He has been a representative at the Knesset since 1998.

General René Vargas Pazzos

General René Vargas Pazzos (c.r) was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff
for the Equatorian army, representative, and then Minister of Energy. Today
he is the President of the Civilian Watch Committee on the consequences of
Plan Columbia.

Antonio Alberto Vulcano

Antonio Alberto Vulcano is an Argentinean doctor working in the public
health sector, exiled activist, and survived State terrorism during the 70's.
He recently participated in the national conference of the "Federation of
the earth, food production and housing" social organisation.

Najah Wakim

Najah Wakim, founder of the People's Movement, is a Lebanese representative.

Mohammadali Yazdanimoghaddam

Mohammadali Yazdanimoghaddam is deputy general director of IRIB (Islamic
Republic of Iran Broadcasting), in charge of the Europe-America department.

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