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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres makes a speech as he attends the three-day International Palestine Conference, led by France and Saudi Arabia and attended by Turkiye at the United Nations Trusteeship Council in New York on July 28, 2025. (Selcuk Acar via Getty Images)
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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nadav Samin
Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
