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2006 Middle East Seminar
International Relations, Political Issues and Outlook  |  | On November 23 and 24, some one hundred Total employees attended a two-day seminar on the Middle East, organized by Université Total. During the seminar, experts and academics discussed international relations, political, economic and social issues and the outlook for the region. The first day was dedicated to international relations. Following an opening address by Hubert Loiseleur des Longchamps, Vice President International Relations, experts and academics addressed two topics—political tensions and the role the Middle East plays in international relations. |
| SPEAKERS – November 23, 2006 |  | Peter Harling | | Senior Analyst in charge of Iraq, International Crisis Group (ICG), and Associate Research Fellow, CRIS | | Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, etc.: Interdependent Conflicts and Outlook |  | Bernard Hourcade | | Research Director at CNRS (Iranian Studies Research Group) | | Can Iran Become a Stabilizing Force in the Middle East? |  | Nadine Picaudou | | Professor at Université Paris I | | Lebanese Crises (1975-2006) |  | Jean-François Legrain | | Research Fellow at CNRS (Research and Study Group for the Mediterranean and Middle East), Lyon | | Hamas and Palestinian Society |  | Antoine Sfeir | | Director of Les Cahiers de l’Orient and Chairman of the Centre d’Etudes et de Réflexions sur le Proche-Orient | | Strategies of the Western Powers in the Middle East since the 1990s |  | Henry Laurens | | Chair of Modern History of the Arab World at the Collège de France | | Relations Between the Muslim World and Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
On the second day, guest speakers discussed more specific issues relating to the Arabian Peninsula, Mideast-West relations and oil and gas challenges.
| | SPEAKERS - November 24, 2006 |  | Fatiha
Dazi-Héni | | Senior Lecturer at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and expert on the Gulf States for the French Defense Ministry’s Strategic Affairs Delegation | | Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: Issues and Outlook |  | François Burgat | | Research Fellow at CNRS (Institute of Research and Studies on the Arab/Muslim World) | | Yemen: A Harder Line? |  | Gérard Chaliand | | Expert in geopolitics | | Trajectories of the Main Terrorist Movements in the Region |  | Abdelwahab Meddeb | | Professor of Comparative Literature (Europe/Islam) at Université Paris X in Nanterre and producer of the program Cultures d’Islam on French radio station France Culture | | New Arab Media and Their Window on the World: The Example of Al-Jazeera |  | Pierre Terzian | | Economist and Director of the weekly energy newsletter Petrostrategies | | Oil and Gas Markets |
 | | Philippe Boisseau, President, Middle East, Exploration & Production, closed the seminar by outlining Total’s strategy in the Middle East. |
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