Bilal Y. Saab and Mick Mulroy
Saab, a former Pentagon senior advisor with oversight responsibilities for security cooperation in the broader Middle East, is a senior fellow and director of the Defense and Security Program at the Middle East Institute (MEI). Mulroy, a retired CIA paramilitary operations officer and U.S. Marine, an Afghanistan Veteran, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, is a Senior Fellow at MEI.