Joseph Braude, Senior Fellow, FPRI’s Program on the Middle East “Thinking Out Loud About the Future of Identity in the Middle East” at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Middle East History Institute on "Understanding the Modern Middle East: History, Identity, and Politics" on October 17-18, 2015 in Philadelphia. For more on this event, including articles, PowerPoint presentations, and more: www.fpri.org/events/2015/10/understanding-modern-middle-east-history-identity-and-politics