-- Middle East and North Africa

--04/10/08  Update from U.S. Embassy in Iraq; Philip Reeker, Counselor to Ambassador Ryan Crocker, U.S. Embassy Baghdad; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--03/06/08  Recent USAID Developments in Iraq; James Kunder, Acting Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/21/08  U.S. Policy and Developments in the Middle East; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript - View Video
--02/06/08  Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez's Upcoming Trip to Jordan; Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/05/07  U.S. Agency for International Development Activity in Iraq; Denise A. Herbol, Deputy Mission Director, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/30/07  Election Process of the New Lebanese President; Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon; Foreign Press Center Digital Video Conference (DVC) Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/29/07  Arab Americans and the Middle East Policy in the 2008 U.S. Elections; Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/30/07  The Middle East Peace Process; Senior U.S. Department of State Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/07  U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Operational Update and Understanding the Asymmetric Conflict; Brigadier General Robert Holmes, USAF, CENTCOM Deputy Director for Operations; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/20/07  Iraq: Next Steps After the Surge; Lieutenant Colonel Bob Bateman, U.S. Army Ranger; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC
--06/27/07  Expanding Outreach to the Muslim World; Karen Hughes, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/23/07  Outcomes of the United Nations Geneva Conference on Displaced Iraqis; Ellen Sauerbrey, U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration;  Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/19/07  Syria and the Assad Regime: Another Missed Opportunity; J.Scott Carpenter , Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/23/07  Iraqi Refugees; Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/13/07  Business Development Mission to Saudi Arabia for the U.S. Saudi Arabian Business Council; Israel Hernandez , Assistant Secretary of for Trade Promotion, U.S. Department of Commerce ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/13/06  U.S. Policy Toward Iran; Ambassador James F. Jeffrey, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/09/06  Issues Affecting the Bilateral Trade and Investment Climate Between the United States and the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia; David Bohigan , U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance ; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/26/06  Update on Iraq; Ambassador David Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/06  Survey of Young Leaders in the United Arab Emirates; Keith Reinhard, President, Business for Diplomatic Action; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/27/06  U.S. Consultations with Turkey and Iraq on Counterring the PKK; General Joseph W. Ralston, U.S. Special Envoy for Countering the PKK;  Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/12/06  Five Years After 9/11- Looking Forward on the War on Terrorism: Current Coalition Operations In Iraq and Afghanistan; Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Former Deputy Director, Plans and Strategy (J5), US Central Command; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC --Official Transcript
--09/06/06  Update on Iran Nuclear Issue; Robert Joseph, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/22/06  Humanitarian Assistance to Lebanon; William J. Garvelink, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--08/15/06  Middle East Update; David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/27/06  Update on Humanitarian Assistance to Lebanon; James Kunder, Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for International Development ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/22/06  Iraq Update; Ambassador James Jeffrey, Senior Advisor for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/23/06  Middle East Update; David Welch , Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, NY -- Official Transcript
--02/24/06  Iraq Reconstruction Update; Dawn Liberi, Mission Director for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) in Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/21/06  The Long Global War Against Violent Extremism, Current Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and NATO Issues; Brigadier General Mark T. Kimmitt, Deputy Director, Plans and Strategy, (J5), U.S. Central Command; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/15/06  Update on U.S. Detainee Policy and Criminal Prosecutions in Iraq; John B. Bellinger III, State Department Legal Advisor; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/09/06  Middle East Update; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/08/06  Current Allied Command Operations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia; General James Jones, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) and US European Command (EUCOM) Commander; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/06/06  Results of the IAEA Emergency Meeting on Iran - the U.S. View; Robert Joseph, Under Secretary for State for Arms Control and International Security; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/05  Iraq: Upcoming Elections for the Iraqi Council of Representatives; Ambassador James Jeffrey, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/12/05  Progress Toward Completion of the Doha Round; Recent G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in London; U.S. Efforts to Help Iraqis Overhaul Their Economy and Rebuild Their Infrastructure; Timothy D. Adams, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--11/09/05  Preview of the Forum for the Future, November 11-12, 2005, Manama, Bahrain; Liz Cheney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for BMENA ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/02/05  Between Two Worlds: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam; Zainab Salbi, President and CEO, Women for Women International; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/21/05  Recent Developments in the Middle East; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/18/05  Iraq: Post Referendum Update; Ambassador James Jeffrey , Sr. Adviser for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC  -- Official Transcript
--08/24/05  Gaza Disengagement Update; C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/13/05  The U.S. and the Future of Iraq; Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/17/05  International Conference on Iraq, June 21-22, 2005, Brussels, Belgium; Ambassador Richard H. Jones, Senior Adviser for Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/17/05  Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Education Ministerial Meeting in Amman, Jordan, May 22-23, 2005; D.J. Nordquist, Acting Director, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Education; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/06/05  Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA) Two Years Later; Catherine Novelli, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/16/05  Building U.S.- Muslim Understanding and Dialog: Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds; Ambassador William Rugh (retired); Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/08/05  Founding Mothers -- Next Steps in Post-Election Afghanistan and Iraq ; Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobrianski; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/08/05  Iraq Election Update; Dr. Farid Ayar, Spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/28/05  Elections in Iraq ; U.S. Department of State Official ; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/27/05  Update on Crisis Hot Spots Around the World ; Nancy Soderberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; New York, New York  -- Official Transcript
--01/21/05  Elections in Iraq; U.S. Department of State Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--01/03/05  Promoting Free and Fair Elections in Iraq: NGOs and Building the Political Process ; Judy Van Rest, Executive Vice President, International Republican Institute; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/15/04  U.S. Foreign Policy after Secretary Powell's Trip to Europe and Morocco, December 6-11; Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--12/03/04  U.S. Perspectives on Developments in Iraq in Relation to Turkey; Ron Schlicher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC -- Special Roundtable Briefing for Turkish Journalists
--11/16/04  Current Situation in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--11/16/04  Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; New York, New York
--11/10/04  Forum for the Future Meeting in Morocco, December 11, 2004; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/21/04  Middle East Partnership Initiative; J. Scott Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; Washington, DC
--09/27/04  Building a New Iraq: Iraqi Women Step Forward in Partnership; Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/22/04  Broader Middle East and North Africa Upcoming Meetings; Alan Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Roundtable; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--07/23/04  Unearthing Mass Graves: Iraqis Coming to Terms with Their Past; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York
--07/21/04  Unearthed Mass Graves: Iraqis Coming to Terms with Their Past; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/01/04  Educational Cooperation Between the U.S. and Libya; Thomas Farrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Roundtable ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/27/04  The G-8 Summit; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/04  NATO, Iraq, U.S.-European Relations and Other Current International Issues; William Cohen, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/14/04  The Coalition Provisional Authority and Democracy-Building in Iraq; David Ballard, Director, Office of Foreign Press, U.S. Departmemt of State; Foreign Press Center Roundtable Discussion; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--03/25/04  The Coalition Provisional Authority and Democracy-Building in Iraq; David Ballard, Director, Office of Foreign Press, U.S. Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/17/04  Iraq: From Mass Graves to a Better Life; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/17/04  Operation Iraqi Freedom: One Year Later; General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/11/04  Women in Iraq: New Beginnings; Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, Bureau of Global Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/04/04  U.S.-Iraq Fulbright Program ; Thomas A. Farrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs, U.S. Department of State ; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--11/19/03  The U.S. Commitment to Women in Iraq; Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, Department of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC
--10/27/03  The Achievements of the Iraq Donors' Conference in Madrid and Progress on Economic and Financial Reconstruction; Dr. John Taylor, Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; New York, New York -- Official Transcript
--10/22/03  Preview of Iraq Donors' Conference in Madrid, October 23-23, 2003; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/21/03  Update on USAID Reconstruction Activities in Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--10/03/03  Changing Minds, Winning Peace; Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/24/03  Iraqi Public Works Reconstruction; Mrs. Nasreen Mustafa Sadiq Barwari, Iraqi Minister of Public Works; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/17/03  Status of Rebuilding and Training the Iraqi Army; Walter B. Slocombe, Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Sector Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/09/03  Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East Peace Process; Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--09/05/03  Preparations for an Iraq Donors Conference; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs ; Foreign Press Center; Washington D.C.  -- Official Transcript
--07/29/03  Recently Completed Visits to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and Expansion of Human and Civil Rights and Supporting Democracy in These Three Countries; Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Dept. of State; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--07/23/03  Coalition's Post-War Reconstruction and Stabilization Efforts; Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--06/13/03  U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives and Priorities in the Middle East and the Rest of the Globe; Richard Haass, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--05/28/03  Update on Iraq; Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/23/03  Understanding United Nations Resolution 1483; Dr. Kim R. Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/20/03  Reconsruction and Humanitarian Relief Efforts in Iraq; Wendy Chamberlin, Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for International Development; New York Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--05/12/03  Lifting UN Sanctions on Iraq: Helping the Iraqi People Build Their Future; Dr. Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--05/01/03  U.S. Assistance to the Iraqi Economy; Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/25/03  Issues Relating to Iraq; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/21/03  Humanitarian Aid for Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/15/03  Issues Relating to Iraq; General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--04/11/03  Issues Relating to Iraq; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--04/10/03  Building a Coalition for Humanitarian Assistance and Reconstruction in Iraq; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/28/03  Eliminating the Threat to World Security Posed by the Iraqi Regime and Halting the Torture, Imprisonment and Execution of Innocents; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/26/03  Humanitarian and Reconstruction Aid to Iraq; Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--03/19/03  Assisting Iraqis with Their Future: Planning for Democracy.; Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--03/06/03  Human Rights and Women in Iraq: Voices of Iraqi Women.; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript
--02/28/03  Humanitarian Relief Planning for Iraq; Richard Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/27/03  Second UN Security Council Resolution on Iraq; Kim Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs ; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript. 
--02/26/03  Iraq's Voices of Freedom; James Larocca, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--02/07/03  Iraq Update and Other Nonproliferation Issues; John S. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for Nonprolilferation; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript.
--01/21/03  White House Publication "Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's Disinformation and Propaganda 1990-2003 "; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center BACKGROUND Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--10/11/02  Iraqi Deception and Denial; John Yurechko, Defense Intelligence Agency Officer; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--06/06/02  Scenesetter for President Mubarek's Visit to the U.S.; Senior Administration Official; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/08/02  Vice President Cheney's Trip to the Middle East; Senior Administration Officials; Foreign Press Center Background Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--03/06/02  NATO Split Over Iraq? From the Journalists' Perspective ; Steven Hess, Brookings Institution; A Brookings/Harvard Forum in Conjunction with the Foreign Press Center; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)
--04/12/01  Regional Dynamics in the Middle East and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace - Considerations for U.S. Policy; Amb. Edward Djerejian, Director, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC (Unofficial Transcript)