The
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (ANU), the Asia-Pacific
College of Diplomacy (ANU) and the Centre for Muslim Minorities
& Islam Policy Studies (Monash University) held a two day
workshop to examine ‘Australia in the Middle East and Central
Asia: Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan’, on 21-22 November 2007. Leading
experts on Australian foreign and strategic policy attended
the workshop to discuss issues central to Australia’s military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as possible engagement in any operation against Iran. The workshop
was convened by A/Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh (Monash
University)
and Dr Hossein Moghaddam (CAIS). Attendees were drawn from government
agencies, diplomatic missions, think-tanks and universities. |
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Mr
Brett Young, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Mr Khalil
Rahman Timuri, Counsellor Afghan Embassy; Mr Ross Burns, former
Australian Ambassador to Syria, Israel and Lebanon; Mr Hashem
Etminan, Iranian/Persian Cultural Foundation; Mr Barry Naughten,
CAIS scholar; A/Prof Fethi Mansouri, Deakin University; Dr Matthew
Gray, CAIS; Dr Nick Bisley, Monash University; Mr Anthony Billingsley,
UNSW; Dr Hossein Moghaddam, CAIS; A/Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh,
Monash; Mr Robert Newton, Australian Arab Chamber of Commerce;
Prof Stuart Harris, CAIS; Mr Richard Scrivener, CAIS scholar;
Mr Shayeq Qassem, CAIS scholar; (seated) Dr Leanne Piggott,
Sydney University; Dr Ben MacQueen, Monash; Mr David Tittensor,
Monash; Mr Mohammad Naji Rad, Iranian Embassy. |
