a advocate of peace and women's rights throughout her life and since her late husband president anwar sadat gave his life are for the cause of peace. she's been a member of the maryland community for two decades and has helped the university too establish the anwar sadat chair for peace development. as the ejimgs revolution continues to unfold hers has been a steady and insightful voice we've continued to hear including here at the university last spring. the university of maryland brought in the behavioral sciences have been honored to count mrs. sadat as one of us. it is my pleasure to present mrs. sadat to you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you, dean townshend, for your kind words and for your support of the sadat chair and international studies group. ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce our honorable panelists of this event forum. but before i do so, i'd like to say a few words about the arab awakening that has been sweeping much of the arab world. especially my greek country egypt. in this regard i want to welcome our ambassador who is here today. egypt is

[applause] finally, the panel will be moderated by our professor, the holder a anwar sadat chair for peace and humanity. i think you are in for an intellectual treat, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for attending. [applause] >> thank you very much. dr. brzezinski, mr. hadley, it is my pleasure to host in my home institution. i usually see you in washington and all these other places. i know that for some of you, this may be the first time to come to maryland, so welcome. we really appreciate you taking the time to join us. i will go ahead and start asking questions, but i want to explain why you are surrounded by such beautiful art. dr. brzezinski, being married to a wonderful artist yourself, you appreciate that a little bit. we have a sculpture and painting. these are products of an annual competition have which is called the sadat art for piece program. these are the winners from the 2011 competition. the best winter for sculpture is jesse barros for that year warned which is intended to represent hearing the voices of the people in the arab awakening. congratulations to the winne

[applause] >> finally, the panel will be moderated by our own professor, the holder of the anwar sadat chair for peace and development. ladies and gentlemen, i think you're in for it intellectual treat. thank you for attending. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, mrs. sadat. thank you, dean townshend, for your leadership and support. dr. brzezinski, mr. hadley, it's my pleasure to host you in my home institution but i know i see you in washington and all these other places, and i know that for some of you this may be actually the first place, first time to come to maryland. so welcome, and would really appreciate you taking the time to join us. i'm going to go ahead and start asking questions, but before, i wanted to explain why you're surrounded such beautiful art. if you notice, and dr. brzezinski being married to a wonderful artist yourself, you appreciate that a little bit, if you see, we have a sculptor and we have a painting. these are products of an annual competition we have which is called the sadat art for peace program. it is in conjunction with our outstanding our depa

have meetings with the chairman of their committee on human rights who happens to be the nephew of anwar sadat, one of the signatories to the camp david agreement -- the signatory along with menachem bay -- begin. we did meet with the ph*eupl brotherhood who did agree with us that n.g.o.'s are important and the law needed to be revised much we met with the head of the interim military government. what confused us a bit at first, i'd ask my colleague from north dakota, is everybody said we're with you, and yet they were gridlocked. in the words of the chairman of the joint chief staff who had been throefr earlier, they were -- over there earlier, they were paralyzed. it seemed to me that the statement of the muslim brotherhood, who all of us, i know, have concerns about, but it was the statement of the muslim brotherhood supporting n.g.o., supporting revision of the mubarak law that seemed to be a major factor in sticking what had clearly been a situation which day by day grew more and more of a crisis. i'd ask my friend from north dakota if he got that same impression. mr. hoeven: i'd like to