The Hamas-Israel Conflict in Context: What’s Next for Israel, the Palestinians and the Region?

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Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development



The military conflict between Israel and Hamas this summer has highlighted what appear to be shifting regional alliances among Israel and its neighbors. It has also sparked a number of proposals for renewed peace talks. Our distinguished panel, including a Palestinian and two Israeli scholars, will analyze these and other diplomatic and strategic developments following in the wake of the conflict.

Speakers:

Uriel Abulof is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tel-Aviv University and a senior research fellow at Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School. Abulof studies political legitimation, nationalism, revolutions and ethnic conflicts in and beyond the Middle East. His first book Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (forthcoming from Haifa University Press) received Israels best academic book award (Bahat Prize). He recently completed his second book, The Mortality of Morality of Nations (Cambridge University Press). His articles appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Political Sociology, International Politics, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and Rationality and Society.





Hussein Ibish is a Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine and a weekly columnist with The National (UAE) and with NOW media. He is also a frequent contributor to many major American and Arab publications such as Foreign Affairs, and commentator on programs such as the PBS NewsHour. Dr. Ibish has published several books and studies on Arab Americans and Middle Eastern politics. His most recent book is Whats Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal. From 1998-2004, Dr. Ibish served as Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He was the editor and principal author of 3 major studies of hate crimes and discrimination against Arab Americans, including a comprehensive volume covering the year immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has been included for the past three years (2011, 2012 and 2013) in Foreign Policy’s “Twitterati 100,” the magazine’s list of 100 “must-follow” Twitter feeds on foreign policy. Dr. Ibish holds a PhD in comparative literature from UMass, Amherst, where he focused on postcolonial theory and English Renaissance drama.

Asher Susser is Professor of Middle Eastern History and the Stanley and Ilene Gold Senior Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University (TAU). He was the Director of the Center for twelve years and has taught for some thirty years in TAUs Department of Middle Eastern History. He has been a Fulbright Fellow; a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, and the University of Arizona.

His most recent book is Israel, Jordan and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative (2012). He is also the author or editor of nine other books and a monograph titled The Rise of Hamas in Palestine and the Crisis of Secularism in the Arab World (2010).

Moderator:

Steven L. Spiegel is Professor of Political Science at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Center for Middle East Development. Through the innovative and informal negotiation techniques he has developed, Professor Spiegel helps produce cutting edge ideas for promoting Middle East regional security and cooperation. 



Professor Spiegel is the author of over 100 books, articles and papers.  He is co-author ofThe Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace from 1989-2011 (2013). He also is at work on a book on American-Israeli relations, is the editor-in-chief of the Routledge UCLA Center for Middle East Development series on Middle East security and cooperation, and authored The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America’s Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan.

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