Inside the Arab Revolution

The MPA’s Global Affairs Speaker Series will feature Koert DEBEUF, former strategic advisor to Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and a well-known political blogger.

 

Mr. Debeuf lives in Cairo where he follows the revolutions of the Arab world as a representative of the European Parliament’s Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE Group).

Drawing on three years of living and working in the heart of the Arab world, Mr. Debeuf will talk about the complex realities and ideas behind the revolutions spanning from Tunisia to Turkey. Based on his first-hand experiences in Cairo, Mr. Debeuf will discuss the foreign policy implications of the recent socio-political changes in the Middle East.