On March 30-31, the Valdai Discussion Club, in partnership with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, held its 10th Middle East Conference. The theme for this year’s meeting was “The Middle East in Search for Lost Awakening”. The conference was opened by Andrey Bystritskiy and Vitaly Naumkin. The speakers of the first session discussed the prospects of the new Arab revival. Ali Alahmad, Politician and Public Figure, Syria; Youssef Cherif, Director, Columbia Global Centers |Tunis; Joost Hiltermann, Program Director, Middle East & North Africa, International Crisis Group; Daniel Levy, President, US/Middle East Project, took part in the session. The session was moderated by Vasily Kuznetsov, Head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Oriental Faculty of the State Academic University for the Humanities.