Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS, recently took part in a panel discussion entitled “The Syrian Crisis and Political & Religious Extremism” at an IMAN Foundation/Institute for Cultural Diplomacy conference in Berlin.

The other speakers included, Minister Jean-Paul Adam (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Seychelles), Dr. Nazar Al-Baharna, (Bahrain’s former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs), Dr. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis (former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus) and Ms Erna Hennicot-Schoepges (former Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs of Luxembourg).

The panel was moderated by James C. Clad a former U.S deputy assistant secretary of defence.