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April 24, 2024

John Allen, then a U.S. special presidential envoy, center, leaves the Arab League headquarters in October 2014 after meeting with the League’s Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby in Cairo, Egypt. A retired U.S. Marine general, Allen is now a fellow with the Brookings Institution. He’s scheduled to deliver a Brookings Mountain West lecture, “The New 100 Years War? Causes of Regional Instability and the Rise of the Islamic State,” at 6 p.m. March 1, 2017, at UNLV’s Greenspun Hall.

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John Allen, then a U.S. special presidential envoy, center, leaves the Arab League headquarters in October 2014 after meeting with the League’s Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby in Cairo, Egypt. A retired U.S. Marine general, Allen is now a fellow with the Brookings Institution. He’s scheduled to deliver a Brookings Mountain West lecture, “The New 100 Years War? Causes of Regional Instability and the Rise of the Islamic State,” at 6 p.m. March 1, 2017, at UNLV’s Greenspun Hall.