Jump to 21:05 Presiding: Justin Vogt, Deputy Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs **Michael Doran** Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution **Murtaza Hussain** Journalist, The Intercept **Bilal Y. Saab** Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow for Middle East Security, Atlantic Council News from the region is flooded with tragedy in Syria, tumult in Gaza, and terrorism in Iraq; how can we make sense of these conflicts in a regional context? With fiercely distinct ethnic, sectarian, religious, and national identities, the groups and alliances within states in the Middle East tend not to follow arbitrary colonial-era borders. Can the regional architecture withstand today’s dramatic challenges, or can there be a stabilizing arrangement where borders are redrawn, Kurds get independence, and governments are more representative of their populations? If redrawn borders are unlikely to occur, what should happen for the region to progress peacefully? What role should Turkey, Iran, and other more established powers play? How should the West be involved?

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