Istanbul World Forum
13-14 October 2012
List of Participants
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime Minister of Turkey
Nursultan Nazarbaev President of Kazakhstan
Fayez Al‐Tawawneh Prime Minister of Jordan
Abdulilah Benkiran Prime Minister of Morocco
Mohammad Khatami Former President of Iran
Haris Silajdžić President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Shaukat Aziz Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Secretary General of the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation
Nabil El Araby Secretary General of the Arab League
Rafik Abdessalem Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia
Saad‐Eddine El Othmani Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco
Stephen Green Minister of State for Trade and Investment
Bulent Arınç Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Beşir Atalay Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Bekir Bozdag Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Ahmet Davutoğlu Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
Egemen Bağış Minister for European Union Affairs of Turkey
Cevdet Yılmaz Minister of Development of Turkey
Mehmet Şimsek Minister of Finance of Turkey
Jack Straw Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot Secr. Gen. of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
Din Syamsuddin President of Muhammadiyah
Bartholomew I Patriarch of the Phanar Greek Orthodox Church
Muhammad Ahmad Hussein Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
Theophilos III Patriarch of the Church of Jerusalem.
Isak Haleva Chief Rabbi of Turkey Archbishop
Saliba Özmen Metropolitan of Mardin and Diyarbakir
Ali Bardakoglu Former President of Religious Affairs of Turkey
Abdel Bari Atwan Editor‐in Chief of Al Quds Al Arabi
Abdelwahab El Effendi Cambridge University
AbdoolKarim Vakil King’s College London
Abdulbaset Sieda Syrian National Council
Abdulhakim Bashar Secretary General of
Kurdish National Council of Syria
Ahmed Abd Rabou Cairo University
Ahmed Maher April 6 Youth Movement
Ahmed Yousef Senior Adviser to Ismail Haniya
Akif Beki Radikal Daily
Alfred Stepan Wallace S. Sayre,
Professor of Government Columbia University
Ali Fadlallah Religious Leader
Ali Köse Marmara University
Ali Sabancı Chairman of Pegasus Airlines
Alon Ben Meir New York University
Alvaro de Vasconcelos Former Director of the EU Institute for Security Studies
Aref Ali Nayed Kalam Research and Media
Basheer Nafi Al Jazeera Center for Studies
Bobby Sayyid University of South Australia
Bulent Aras Strategic Research Center
Cari Machet Occupy Wall Street
Cemalettin Hasimi Coordinator for Public Diplomacy, Prime Ministry of Turkey
Cemil Aydin University of North Carolina
Cengiz Candar Radikal Daily
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka Swedish International Development and
Cooperation Agency
Ciwan Haco Musician Daniel Levy, New America Foundation
David Hearst Chief Foreign Leader Writer, the Guardian
Dimitar Bechev European Council on Foreign Relations
Eckhard Deutscher German International Cooperation Community
Erol Cebeci SETA Foundation Washington DC
Ertan Aydın Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey
Fahmy Howeidy Al‐Ahram
Ferhat Kentel Istanbul Sehir University
Gehad El‐Haddad Senior Adviser to the Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)
Ghazi Salahodeen Adviser to the President of Sudan
Gideon Levy Haaretz
Gilles Kepel Science Po Paris
Hamid Dabashi Columbia University
Hamza Yusuf Zeytuna College
Hasan Bülent Kahraman Kadir Has University
Hatem Ete SETA Foundation
Heba Rauf Ezzat Egyptian Political Scientist
Hilal Kaplan Yeni Safak Daily
Hillary Wiesner Carnegie Corporation of New York
Hootan Shambayati Florida Gulf Coast University
Hugh Pope International Crisis Group
Ibrahim El‐Houdaiby American University Cairo
Ibrahim Kalin Deputy Undersecretary of the Prime Minister of Turkey
Ibrahim Mothana Yemeni Youth Activist
Ibrahim Sahin President of the Turkish Radio and Television Institution
Idham Hanesh Iraqi Calligrapher and Researcher
Ihsan Kabil Turkish Film Critic
Ilber Ortayli Turkish Historian and Former Head of the Topkapi Palace
Imran Khan Pakistani Politician and Former Cricketer
Isil Karakas European Court of Human Rights
Ismail Güneş Turkish Filmmaker
J. Paul Martin Columbia University
Jamal Jibril Hilvan University
James L. Gelvin University of California Los Angeles
Jie Hyun Lim Director of the RICHC, Hanyang University
Juan Cole University of Michigan
Justin McCarthy University of Louisville
Kerem Alkin Bloomberg HT
Luis Peral EU Institute for Security Studies
Mahmoud Jibril Former Head of the National Transition Council of Libya
Majid Majidi Iranian film director and producer
Mehmet Ali Birand Turkish Journalist
Mehmet Paçacı Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey
Mete Çubukcu Turkish Journalist
Michael Lerner Tikkun Magazine
Michael Thumann Die Zeit
Mohammed Ayoob Michigan State University
Mustafa Karaalioglu Star Daily
Naeem Jeenah Director of the Afro‐Middle East Center
Nicholas Adams University of Edinburgh
Nilüfer Göle Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Nuh Yılmaz Star Daily
Orhan Gencebay Turkish Musician and Actor
Osman Can Former Turkish Constitutional Court Rapporteur
Ömer Çelik Vice Chairman of AK Party
Prince Hicham Ben Abdullah Al Tayyar Energy, Moulay Hicham Foundation
Qays Said Professor of Constitutional Law, Tunis University
Rashid Al‐Ghannouchi Adviser to Ennahda Movement, Tunusia
Richard Falk Princeton University
Salma Yaqoob Respect Party, UK
Savaş Şafak Barkçın Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister of Turkey
Sebastian Conrad Free University of Berlin
Serdar Çam President, Turkish International Development and Cooperation Agency
Shadi Hamid Director of Research, Brookings Doha Center
Siba Grobogui Johns Hopkins University
Steven Heydemann United States Institute of Peace
Taha Özhan SETA Foundation
Talip Küçükcan Marmara University
Tayfun Atay Ankara University
Tom Heneghan Thomson Reuters
Tu Wei Ming Harvard University
Ümit Boyner Director of Turkish Industry and Business Association
Vandana Shiva International Forum on Globalisation
Vladislav Bajac Serbian Novelist
Wadah Khanfar Former Director General of the Al Jazeera and President of Sharq Forum
Walter Mignolo Duke University
Yasin Aktay Institute of Strategic Thinking
Yilmaz Ensaroglu SETA Foundation
Zuhtu Arslan Member of Constitutional Court of Turkey
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