The Foreign Affairs Committee is inquiring into the implications for British foreign policy of the ‘Arab Spring’ and subsequent events in the Middle East and North Africa, looking in particular at the contribution the UK can make to reform and reconstruction in Arab countries. The focus of the inquiry is on Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. The Committee is monitoring events elsewhere in the region as they continue to unfold, and may in due course extend the inquiry to cover other countries.
Call for evidence
Oral evidence
29 November 2011
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Witnesses: Intissar Kherigi, trainee lawyer and daughter of Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the En-Nahda party, Tunisia and Dr Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
6 December 2011
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Witnesses: Dr Claire Spencer, Head of Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House and Robin Lamb, Director General of the Libyan British Business Council and Executive Director of the Egyptian British Business Council
31 January 2012
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Witness: Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG PC
Lord Malloch-Brown is a former Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and, before that, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and then UN Deputy Secretary General. He is currently Chairman of Europe, Middle East and Africa at FTI Consulting.
20 March 2012
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Witnesses:
Alistair Burt MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa and Dr Christian Turner, Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
18 April 2012
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Witnesses:
Alistair Burt MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa and Jon Davies, Additional Director of Middle East and North Africa Directorate (MENAD), Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
This resumes the evidence session held on Tuesday 20 March, which was interrupted by business on the floor of the House.