Where's Ibrahim?

an online scrapbook about our director Dr. Ibrahim Karawan

* One of the most common questions that we get at the Middle East Center is: "Where's Ibrahim?". Sometimes that is a very difficult question to answer because Dr. Karawan is one of the busiest people I have ever met. So I decided to start keeping an online record of some of the more interesting things that he does for our center. Enjoy.

June 1, 2004-June 7, 2004

Dr. Karawan was invited by the Center for Gulf Studies in the State of Qatar to participate in a conference entitled "Political Reform and Democracy in the Arab World". The following pictures come from Qatari newspapers that covered the event.

This photo was taken from the Al-Watan Newspaper, based out of Qatar on June 5th 2004. The individuals in the photograph from left to right are: Dr. Farid Abdel-Nour (San Diego State University), Dr. Mona Mikhail (New York University), Dr. Ibrahim Karawan (University of Utah), Mohammad Al-Rumaihi (Ex-general secretary for National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters, Kuwait) and Sadiq al-Mahdi (Former Prime Minister of Sudan).

This photo is from the article interviewing Dr. Karawan in the Al-Raya Newspaper from Qatar, also appearing on June 5th, 2004. We can't decide if he looks sad or pensive in this picture. Unfortuately we do not have an English translation of the article, but for those who are interested in viewing a PDF file of the Arabic article, please click here.

An evening of music in Qatar for Ibrahim.

July 25, 2004

Dr. Karawan appears on Civic Dialouge (KUED Channel 7) to discuss the current state of affairs in the Middle East. The pictures below are not the best of quality as they were taken from a TV monitor. See here for more info on the television program Civic Dialouge.

April 11, 2005

For this year's Lecture Series our title was "U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East", the highlight of the series was our last speaker Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, seen here with Ibrahim.

June 8-11, 2005

A conference entitled "Democracy and Global Security" was held in Istanbul, Turkey this June. Ibrahim was a proud panel-member and speaker at this conference which hosted many military and civilian leaders from around the world.

From Left to Right: Sen. Bob Bennett, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, Ibrahim, Sen. Richard Luger

Ibrahim with Congressman Howard Berman

Ibrahim and Senator Barbara Mikulski on the plane.

July 2005

Below are a series of pictures from Ibrahim's collection, some are more recent while others are not. Some captions may be incomplete but we hope to have that fixed as soon as possible.