i first want to bring to the podium my colleague scott carpenter. scott has been an extraordinary colleague of the washington institute, of mine for some years now. he is the founding director of our project. it is our project designed to amplify the voices of mainstream arabs and muslims in the battle against extremism in advance of democracy throughout the middle east. he has done an exemplary job in meeting this mission. he is being stolen away from us. he will be joining google, which has established its own variation of the project called google ideas, a project to leverage technology for political change in the middle east and beyond. we are proud that his legacy travels far beyond the beltway. and that such an important institution has google is taking him away and giving him a grander stage on which to make important contributions toward political change in the middle east and elsewhere >> the first policy forum where i featured speaking on this same issue about urging, recognizing how critical it was to advance political and economic reform

i first want to bring to the podium my colleague scott carpenter. scott has been an extraordinary colleague of the washington institute, of mine for some years now. he is the founding director of our project. it is our project designed to amplify the voices of mainstream arabs and muslims in the battle against extremism in advance of democracy throughout the middle east. he has done an exemplary job in meeting this mission. job in meeting this mission. he is being stolen away from us. he will be joining google, which has established its own variation of the project ll google ideas, a project to leverage technology for political change in the middle east and beyond. we are proud that his legacy travels far beyond the beltway. and that such an important institution has google is taking him away and giving him a grander stage on which to make important contributions toward political change in the middle east and elsewhere. >> the first policy forum where i featured speaking on this same issue about urging, recognizing how critical it was to advance pol

i first want to bring to the podium my colleague scott carpenter.as been an extraordinary colleague of the washington institute, of mine for some years now. he is the founding director of our project. it is our project designed to amplify the voices of mainstream arabs and muslims in the battle against extremism in advance of democracy throughout the middle east. he has done an exemplary job in meeting this mission. he is being stolen away from us. he will be joining google, which has established its own variation of the project called google ideas, a project to leverage technology for political change in the middle east and beyond. we are proud that his legacy travels far beyond the beltway. and that such an important institution has google is taking him away and giving him a grander stage on which to make important contributions toward political change in the middle east and elsewhere. >> the first policy forum where i featured speaking on this same issue about urging, recognizing how critical it was to advance political and economic reform as a k