Dear Friends

Dear Friends, As we mentioned in our last meeting in December before our usual winter break, we are resuming our Briefing Series under a new name, GATESTONE INSTITUTE, an international policy council, to continue our work over the last eight years. As always, we shall be hosting luncheons at THE FOUR SEASONS RESTAURANT to bring you the same level of world leaders and outstanding thinkers as before.

Anticipated for this Spring and next Fall are briefings by John Bolton, R. James Woolsey, Charles Krauthammer, Elie Wiesel, Karl Rove, Ehud Barak, Art Laffer, Michael Lewis, Andrew Roberts, Mark Steyn, Douglas Murray, Geert Wilders, Theodore Dalrymple, David Goldman, Robert Spencer, Charles Murray, Victor Davis Hanson, Alan Dershowitz, Bernard Lewis, Amir Taheri, and Fouad Ajami among others, as well as several major national and international conferences. We shall be sending you this week an updated list of our Spring Events.

Our Briefing Council resumes on APRIL 18th with a luncheon, from noon-two, at THE FOUR SEASONS RESTAURANT on the LONDON MEGA-MOSQUE AND FIRST SHARIA- CONTROLLED ZONE, with the magnetic Alan Craig, who has been driving the opposition to it.

Checks for $5,000 (as it will be a shortened season) may be made out (for the moment) to: Middle East Forum, please noting GATESTONE INSTITUTE. We shall be sending the forms this week as well.

Hope you have been enjoying the Very Happiest Holidays -

Looking forward to seeing you at GATESTONE!

Warmest,

Nina