The Hollings Center’s Next-Generation Dialogue series connects a rising generation of experts and professionals across Muslim-majority countries with their American counterparts. The goal is to cultivate cooperative, innovative thinking on crucial issues. The Hollings Center has organized Next-Generation dialogues on Turkey, Egypt, and Afghanistan that bring together academics, journalists, civil society leaders, businesspeople, and government officials.
Hollings Center Regional Policy Dialogues cover 
consequential and challenging topics that link Muslim-majority nations and the United States. Dialogues center on subjects that are critically relevant yet under-discussed in the public sphere. Participants have included a broad spectrum of government officials, experts on domestic and foreign policy, academics, economists, civil society leaders and practitioners. Regional dialogues have addressed topics relating to Iran, Iraq, the Caspian Sea and Middle East television media. Most notably, the Hollings Center has organized four Regional Policy Dialogues on Afghanistan with the assistance of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS).
The Hollings Center’s Higher Education Dialogue series fosters cooperation between universities and other institutions of learning through the exchange of ideas, expertise and best practices. Dialogues focus on issues of significant importance to higher education communities in the United States and the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Europe and Eurasia. Participants include distinguished university presidents, administrators, senior officials and educators from over a dozen countries. Dialogue conferences have explored topics that include independent universities in the Muslim world, study abroad programs and quality assurance in higher education.