Talk entitled ‘The United States and the Arabs -friendly regimes and angry populations’. Dr Yamani is a specialist in social, political and human rights issues in the Arab states, as well as on women and Islam. She is currently Associate Fellow in the Middle East Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and also an Associate at the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Law at the School for Oriental and African Studies. Dr Yamani is most recently the author of the highly praised Changed Identities, the challenge of the new generation in Saudi Arabia (RIIA, 2000), and is a frequent commentator on TV on Middle Eastern affairs.