The Middle East Center at FSU invites to attend the 2023 Jeannette B. Chapman Endowed Lecture. This year's speaker is Steven A. Cook who will give a talk titled:  "Americans and the Middle East: Where do We Go From Here?"

Steven A. Cook is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook is the author of False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East; The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, which won the 2012 gold medal from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and Ruling but Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Oxford University Press is publishing his next book, The End Of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East in 2023.

This event is free, open to the public, and will be followed by a catered reception. To reserve a spot for free, please click here and sign up.