At Stimson Center today, listening to expert voices on Nuclear proliferation in ME beyond Iran. A topic of high significance given the recent rapprochement b/w Iran & KSA

#MiddleEast #Iran #SaudiArabia #israel #Nuclear
Barbara Slavin
Kelsey Davenport Mark Fitzpatrick Chen Zak Mahsa Rouhi

Rarely, we use technology to promote #nonproliferation , build capacity & disseminate knowledge. The #MiddleEast WMDFZ Programme developed 2 online tools, a Documents Depository & Timeline of Key Events, a hub for the efforts to establish a ME WMDFZ.

Watch Chen Zak review them 👇

Thank you United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research for inviting me to share the work of the IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ on the ME WMD Free Zone, existing NWFZ zones and peaceful uses in the region. A pleasure to share a panel with brilliant experts Jean Pascal Zanders Mustafa Kibaroğlu & Chen Zak and to hear Stephan Klement 🇪🇺 on JCPOA.

So excited to spend the next two days with PEL and the WMD Center Grad Fellows at our annual Academic Symposium! Day 1 has an incredible lineup of speakers: Laura Holgate🌻, Chen Zak, Toby Dalton, and Nancy Connell. Looking forward to their thoughts on the CWMD challenge.

Join CNS for a breakfast event on the Nonproliferation Implications of a US-Saudi-Israel Deal. October 16, 9:30-11:30am EST. Speakers include Aziz Alghashian, Eric Brewer, Chen Zak and Barak Ravid moderated by Ellen Knickmeyer. Register at middlebury.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🧵(1/4) This week at UNGA First Committee 🇺🇳 UNIDIR Director Robin Geiss and Amb Maritza Chan joined Lenka Filipová Almudena Azcárate Ortega María Garzón Maceda Chen Zak & Giacomo Persi Paoli to present our suite of digital tools:

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Join me at Wicked Bloom tomorrow for talk about emerging tech, fiction, and cool drinks such as Buzz Kill, Beetle Juice and Black Death...Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos Elsa B. Kania EP - AI Cyber Bio Converging Tech Justin Anderson @kbturner88 Emily Kelley Amanda Moodie @SamBendett Chen Zak

Interesting piece by Farzan Sabet and Chen Zak about lessons to learn from the JCPOA format. Positive and negative lessons which can be extended to regional security building process in the Middle East.
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🔴 Starting now: #MESF2023 's panel on nuclear proliferation in the Middle East ft. Chen Zak CNS, Farzan Sabet Global Governance Centre, Henry Rome Washington Institute, Kelsey Davenport Arms Control Assoc + ex-Ambassador Peggy Mason Rideau Institute. See the highlights here below.

Come and work with us in Geneva.

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Middle East team is looking for a young professional or recently graduated expert in the following fields:
◾️Non-proliferation
◾️Regional security
◾️Arms control
◾️WMD

You will work with a dream team, Chen Zak, Almuntaser Albalawi, and me.

Ahead of our event today The Wilson Center👇 Chen Zak & I publish a long study on the most ambitious effort to date to advance #MiddleEast arms control/regional security: the ACRS process (early 90s)

Based on 40 oral history interviews & archival research:
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Great session on day 2 of #EUNPDC2022 on ‘WMD Threats in the Middle East’ with Stephan Klement 🇪🇺, Chen Zak, Coralie Pison Hindawi American University of Beirut and Ayman Khalil #ACSIS , chaired by Benjamin Hautecouverture FRS.

Talking WMD Free Zone, JCPOA, regional uranium fuel sharing.

💬 On Saudi-Israel diplomatic negotiations and Riyadh's pursuit of a civilian nuclear program with Washington's cooperation, Chen Zak CNS notes that 'the Saudis believe that [U.S.] Congress will be more inclined to say yes if it's part of a normalization agreement.'

📢 Happening now!
Nasser Bin Nasser presents his historical examination of means of delivery in the #MiddleEast #WMDFZ ,  regional states postures and concerns, and shares various options for states to consider, with 🇨🇭 Amb Benno Laggner and Chen Zak ⤵️

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Kathy Adnan Tabatabai Abdolrasool Divsallar United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Chen Zak @UN He is disgusting

Join our virtual event TODAY to discover #MiddleEast regional perspectives on means of delivery in the region, and explore options with Nasser Bin Nasser, 🇨🇭 Amb Benno Laggner, and Chen Zak.

📌 3:30 PM CET | 10:30 AM EDT

Sign up here 👉 unidir.org/MEWMDFZ-Means

📢 Starting in 1 hour!

Virtual launch of our new report on means of delivery in the #MiddleEast #WMDFZ 🌍💡 on the margins of the #UN #1C !

Join us online to hear the author Nasser Bin Nasser discuss his findings with 🇨🇭 Amb Benno Laggner & Chen Zak.

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Glad to have been part of this effort led by Hanna Notte and Chen Zak

A great article by Chen Zak and RhiannaTysonKreger CNS Middlebury Institute