I hope you and yours are well and staying healthy.
Figuring that you, like we at the Middle East Forum, are self-grounded and have extra time on your hands, we are preparing new programs for you to participate in from home. These will include:
Webinars – 15-minute interactive video discussions hosted by MEF specialists, via Zoom. For information on how to access the webinar platform, please click here.
Project specific programs – Campus Watch, Israel Victory Project, Islamist Watch and Counter-Islamist Grid will be hosting topic-specific activities with our specialists such as:
Ask Me Anything (AMA) events with well-known Middle East analysts and policymakers
Debates
Panels with MEF staff, fellows, and guests
Pre-recorded video series
Conference calls – increasing the number from one to several a month, coordinated by Marilyn Stern
Podcasts – sending out highlights from past interviews conducted on our radio talk show, with new episodes being broadcast Wednesdays 10AM EDT at WWDB-AM Talk 860. (The MEF Radio archive can be found on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Google Podcasts)
Middle East Insider – a week-day update of behind-the-news stories from Micah Levinson in Washington
Topics include: challenges to the Iranian regime, the Israeli electoral drama, Erdoğan’s growing number of self-made crises, and exciting new information on American Islamists.
We will soon be sending out specifics on how to sign up for these activities and I hope you will join in and encourage others to do so as well.
The Middle East Insider starts tomorrow, Tuesday, Mar. 17. Go to this page to sign up to receive it.
I will then kick the webinar series off at 1p.m. on Wednesday, Mar. 18. My topic is “Conspiracy Theories in a Time of Virus.” It builds on my two books on conspiracy theories to show how the increasing tendency to blame not China but the United States and Israel fits into a dangerous medieval pattern. To sign up for this event, click here.
To talk to someone at MEF for help signing up, contact Stacey McKenna at Stacey@MEForum.org or +1-215-546-5406 ext. 113. If you need to contact any of our staff, feel free to call the office. MEF’s phone system has been linked to our remote workstations.
