One Year after the `Arab Spring`

Monday, April 16, 2012

until 12 o’clock
arrival and registration of the participants,
assignment to the workshops

12.30 h
Lunch

14.00 h
Welcome and Opening Addresses

• Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering MEP

former President of the European Parliament
Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

• HRH Prince El-Hassan bin Talaal

member of the Jordanian Royal Family (video-message)

14.30 h
„One Year after the Arab Spring: Europe and the Arab States“
Panel Discussion
Panelists:

• Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering MEP

former President of the European Parliament
Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

• Prof. Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga

former President of the Republic Latvia

• Anwar Esmat El Sadat

Co-Founder of the Reform and Development Party in Egypt
founder and chairman of the El Sadat Association for Social Development and Welfare
member of the Board of Directors of the General Federation of NGOs/Foundations – Egypt

• Mohammed Tawfik Mouline

General Director of the Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (IRES)
Kingdom of Morocco

Presenter:

• Dima Tarhini

Presenter, DW-TV

16.00 h
Coffee Break

16.30 h

Workshops

Workshop I: Images and Conceptions: What do Young Arabs Think about Germany/Europe? What do Young Europeans Think about the Arab Countries in the Wake of the Revolution?
Input:

• Benedict Pöttering

Vice president of the Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP)

• Mirette Bakir

Scholar of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

• Maria Fuster

International Secretary of Nuevas Generaciones del Partido Popular, Spain

• Najem Wali

Writer and journalist


Workshop II: The Relationship between Muslims and Christians
Input:

• Anba Damian

General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Germany

• Honey Deihimi

Head of the Department “Social Integration”
at the Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration

• Prof. Dr. Rauf Ceylan (tbc)

Professor for Islamic Religious Education
University of Osnabrueck

• Barbara Bishay, M.A.

Co-Founder and Vice-Chairwoman of the executive board of Mayadin al-Tahrir, Berlin