A timeline of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's first thirty years (1985-2015).

1. TWI sponsors press
trip to the Middle
East
Wye River
Plantation
conference
inaugurated
HRH Prince Hassan
bin Talal of Jordan
addresses Institute
Gulfwatch, Peace
Watch, and Policy
Watch series begin
Sec. Def. Dick
Cheney addresses
Institute
First Presidential
Study Group
provides advice to
incoming
administration
Institute moves to
1828 L Street
For. Min. Shimon
Peres addresses
Institute
International Policy
Conference in
Jerusalem
Sec. State George
Shultz addresses
Wye Conference.
Vice Pres. Dan
Quayle Addresses
first Soref
Conference
Sec. State Baker
uses TWI briefing
book during
Madrid Middle East
talks
TWI briefs
President-elect Bill
Clinton
Nat. Sec. Adv.
Anthony Lake
addresses Soref
Symposium
Sec. State Warren
Christopher
addresses Institute
Robert Satloff
becomes Institute
executive director.
Middle East Peace
Process Program
starts
Turkish President
Suleyman Demirel
adresses Institute
Military Fellows
Program starts
Shimon Peres,
Prince Faisal
Hussein of Jordan
address Institute
Weinberg Founders
Conference starts
Turgut Ozal Lecture
Series starts with
Prof. Bernard LewisTurkish Research
Program starts
Vice Pres. Al Gore
speaks at 10th
anniversary
celebration
For. Min. Ariel
Sharon appears
jointly with PLO
Chief Negotiator
Ahmed Qurei (Abu
Ala) at Institute.
Barbi Weinberg is
founding president
and Martin Indyk
founding director
Institute sponsors
first Israeli-Arab
conference in
Amman
1993
Mike Stein elected
Institute president
Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir
addresses Institute
Def. Min. Yitzhak
Rabin addresses
Institute
Institute delegation
meets with King
Abdullah II in
Amman
Fred Lafer elected
Institute president

2. Stern Library
opened
Presidential advisor
and peace
negotiator Dennis
Ross joins Institute
Future Israeli Def.
Min. Gen. Moshe
Yaalon is visiting
fellow
Presidential Study
Group calls for
prevention of
Iranian nuclear
weapons
Former PA Minister
Nabil Amr is visiting
scholar
Nat. Sec. Advisor
Condoleezza Rice
addresses Institute
Egyptian writer Ali
Salim addresses
Institute
Pres. Bill Clinton
honored
Gulf and Energy
Policy Program
starts
Natan Sharansky
and Saad Eddin
Ibrahim honored
British prime
minister Tony Blair
honored
Zeev Schiff Lecture,
Stein Program on
Counterterrorism
and Intelligence,
Stein Lecture
Series, Lafer
Symposium start
First Scholar-
Statesman Award
Dinner honors
Bernard Lewis and
George P. Shultz
Condoleezza Rice
honored
Florida Symposium
starts Amb. Itamar
Rabinovich and
Amb. Michael Oren
honored
Amb. Dennis Ross
and Elliott Abrams
honored
Former head of
Israeli Military
Intelligence Gen.
(Ret.) Amos Yadlin
is visiting fellow
Sec. Def. Chuck
Hagel addresses
Institute
Fikra Forum begins
Arabic website
debuts
Book Prize
inaugurated
Minister of
Absorption Tzipi
Livni addresses
Institute
Howard Berkowitz
elected Institute
president Martin Gross
elected Institute
president
Richard Abramson
elected Institute
president
Dr. Henry Kissinger
honored
Deputy Nat. Sec.
Advisor Denis
McDonough
addresses Institute