Talk entitled ‘The current situation in the Middle East, as the region braces itself for a potential new war’. Glass, the world famous veteran journalist and reporter lived in Lebanon from 1972 to 1976 and again from 1983 to the end of 1984, was the Chief Middle East correspondent for ABC News from 1983 to 1993, and is a regular contributor to the Spectator, the Guardian, the Observer, the New Statesman and the Evening Standard. He is the author of ‘Tribes with Flags’ and ‘Money for Old Rope’, both Picador books.