Coptic Solidarity Fourth Annual Conference
June 20-21, 2013
Washington, D.C.
To What Extent Will the U.S. and the International Community Support an Islamist Government in Egypt?
June 20:Policy Day (Capitol Visitors Center, HVC 201, Near Congressional Auditorium)
9:00 –Opening remarks, by Coptic Solidarity President
9:15 -Session 1
- Chair: Dr. Walid Phares Co-Sec. General, Transatlantic Legislative Group
- Ambassador R. James Woolsey – Chairman, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Former Director of Central Intelligence.
- Baroness Cox – UK House of Lords.
- Amb. Ned Walker – Former Amb. to Egypt; Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, Hamilton College
10:30 -Panel: What Next in Egypt?
- Dr. Osama El-Ghazaly Harb – Chairman, Democratic Front Party; Member of the Salvation Front, Egypt.
- Judge Ayman Fouad – Rapporteur of the Freedoms Committee of the Judges’ Club’ in Egypt.
- TBA
- Q&A
(Members of Congress drop by as of 11:00)
12:00 –Leadership Award presentation to Congressman Frank Wolf
12:15 -Lunch break (sandwiches served in the room)
1:00 –(Members of Congress drop by all PM)
Session 2 –
- Chair: Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).
- Judith Miller – Author, Journalist.
- KNS: Judge Michael Mukasey – 81st. United States Attorney General;Partner,Debevoise & Plimpton LLP .
2:00 -Panel – Liberties, between Violation and Reporting
- Dwight Bashir, Deputy Director for Policy and Research USCIRF.
- Emilie Kao, Esq., Senior International Legal Counsel, previously at the Office of International Religious Freedom, the State Department.
- Raymond Ibrahim, Researcher, author, columnist.
- Amb. Suzan Johnson Cook, A.A.L Intl. Religious Freedom. (Presensce Only)
- Amb. Andrew Bennett, Bureau of Religious Freedom, Canada.
- Jim Karigaynnis – MP, Canadian House of Commons.
4:30 –Conclusions
5:00 – E N D
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June 21: Conference (Dulles A/P Marriott Hotel)
9:00 -Panel – Minorities Rights under Islamist Rule
- Chair: Raymond Ibrahim, Researcher, author, columnist.
- Caroline Doss, Esq.,Coptic Solidarity Vice President.
- Dr. Mariz Tadros, Institute of Development Studies, London, UK.
- Rev. Keith Roderick, D.D., Secretary General, Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights (Remarks delivered by Dr. Helmy Guirguis, Coptic Solidarity Board Member).
- Monica Mikhail, Esq., Australian Coptic Movement Association (ACM).
- Tina Ramirez, President, Hardwired Inc. NGO to promote religious freedom
10:30 -Break
11:00 -Panel – Regional Security Issues
- Chair: Colonel Ken Allard, former dean at the War College and NBC Military expert.
- Admiral (Ret.) James Lyons, Jr., U.S. Navy Retired; President/CEO of LION Associates LLC.
- Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and FOX News National Security Analyst.
12:15 -Special session: Message from Russia
- Alexey Komov, President World Congress of Families in Russia and CIS- Moscow
12:30 -Lunch break
1:30 -Panel- Assessing the Brotherhood Regime – Internal & International roles
- Chair: Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy.
- Steve Emerson, Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
- Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Chair for the Study of Islamic Radicalism, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
- Dina Guirguis, Esq. – Egyptian American attorney.
- Halim Meawad, Former diplomat, Secretary, Coptic Solidarity.
- Q&A
3:30 -Break
4:00 -Panel – Current Political Crisis in Egypt
- Chair: Magdi Khalil, Writer and analyst; Coptic Solidarity Board Member.
- Dr Ehsan Kameel Georgy, Head of Forensics Department, Ministry of Justice, Cairo.
- Judge Ayman Fouad – Rapporteur of the Freedoms Committee of the Judges’ Club’ in Egypt.
- Dr. Osama El-Ghazaly Harb – Chairman, Democratic Front Party; Member of the Salvation Front.
- Book Signing Session, Dr. Mariz Tadros, Raymond Ibrahim.
- Q&A
6:00 -(TBA)
6:30 –E N D
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