CNA Seminar Series

May 25, 2010

Dr. Noel Brehony, diplomat and author of the upcoming book Yemen Divided: The Story of a Failed State in South Arab (IB Tauris, 2011) will discuss possible Saudi responses to the internal and external challenges facing the Kingdom in the next five years. Dr. Brehony has been following developments in Yemen and Saudi Arabia since the 1970's. During a 25 year diplomatic career he served in British embassies in Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan, and Egypt. He was then director of Middle East Affairs for Rolls Royce PLC. Currently Dr. Brehony is Chairman of the consulting firm Menas Associates, an advisor to Rolls Royce, a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and Chairman of the British Yemen Society. He is former Chairman of the British Society for Middle East Studies and of the Council for British Research in the Levant. He was an advisor on the Middle East in the office of the British Prime Minister in 2003. Noon-1:30 p.m.