CRCICA Director participated as tutor together with Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab in two pre-conference workshops on 17 November 2013 on “overview of international arbitration: principles and practices” and “Hot topics in international arbitration of oil and gas disputes”, preceding the International Oil and Gas Dispute Resolution Conference held by the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR/AAA) in Manama, Bahrain from 17 to 19 November 2013. The workshops were attended by more than twenty participants from all over the Gulf, the UK, Cyprus and the USA.