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The 2009 Lebanon Elections: Outcomes and Implications
Featuring:
Graeme Bannerman, Analyst and Lebanon Election Monitor and Bilal Saab, Analyst, Brookings Institution
Jun 10 2009 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
MEI Policy Presentation
with
Graeme Bannerman, Analyst, Lebanon Election Monitor
and
Bilal Saab, Analyst, Brookings Institution
to discuss
The 2009 Lebanon Elections: Outcomes and Implications
Wednesday, June 10th
12-1 pm
Washington DC 20036
MEI is honored to host Graeme Bannerman and Bilal Saab to discuss "The 2009 Lebanon
Elections: Outcomes and Implications."
Graeme Bannerman, an Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute, is monitoring Lebanon's elections for the National Democratic Institute and will provide a field account of
poll results. Bannerman has also monitored elections in Georgia, the Philippines, Haiti, Pakistan, the West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen.
As staff member and director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1979 until
1987, Bannerman worked under Chairman Richard Lugar. From 1979 to 1984, he was responsible for the Middle East and South Asia. Prior to working for the U.S. Senate, he served as a Middle Eastern affairs analyst and on the
Policy Planning Staff at the US State Department. There he focused on Arab-Israeli affairs during the time of Camp David and the negotiation of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Bilal Saab is a research analyst
at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Born in Lebanon, Saab has written extensively on US-Lebanese relations and the future of Lebanon for a variety of publications. He is also an expert on
Hezbollah and the Shia of Lebanon. In addition, Saab's research focuses on global terrorism and security in the Middle East. He is a senior consultant to the US government on Lebanon and the region, as well as to Oxford
Analytica. He is a frequent contributor to Jane's Foreign Report, Jane's Intelligence Review, Jane's Intelligence Digest, and Jane’s Islamic Affairs.
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