Alan Luxenberg, President, Foreign Policy Research Institute Walter A. McDougall, Co-Chair of FPRI's Madeleine and W.W. Keen Butcher History Institute · Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Opening Remarks 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