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OSAC MENA Regional Council 11th Annual Conference

May 20, 2025 | Boston, MA

The Overseas Security Advisory Council Middle East and North Africa Regional Council (MENA RC) is pleased to host its 11th annual conference at Northeastern University in Boston.  This year’s theme is MENA Outlook 2025: Deciphering the Past, Forecasting the Future.  Security experts from around the globe will present and lead discussions on issues facing US organizations operating in the Middle East and North Africa.

This year, the MENA RC invites college and university undergraduate and graduate students to submit abstracts for poster presentations at the conference. A poster presentation is one in which information is summarized using text and images, and presented in a poster format. This is an excellent opportunity to highlight your repository, a digitization project, a research project, thesis, or other initiative, and share your work with your colleagues, and the broader MENA security policy community.

Posters relating to Middle East and North Africa security issues are welcome, with suggested topics including, but not limited to: conflict analysis and resolution, international relations, security studies, business continuity, diplomacy, reconstruction and development, crisis management, resilience, and/or women and minority issues.

Important Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts should be approximately 125 words, including the problem being addressed, and your approach to the problem. Providing preliminary results is suggested but not required.
• Presented posters must be sized up to 24 x 36 inches (or A1), either portrait or landscape, but the submitted versions should be scaled down to letter or A4 for submission as a PDF.