September 9, 2009

David Gardner is Chief Leader Writer and Associate Editor at The Financial Times. He was the paper's Middle East Editor from 1995-1999. In 2003 he won the David Watt prize for political journalism for his writing on the Arab world. His newly published book, Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance, has been called an impassioned and astute analysis of the modern Middle East.

This event was sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the Center for Peace and Security Studies.