After Gaza: The Peace Process, Past, Present & Future April 13, 2009

Beshara Doumani, Associate Professor of Middle East History at UC Berkeley, will speak on the Israel-Palestinian peace process. Lecture followed by Q&A.

Doumani is the author of "Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900" and the editor of "Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender"

Doumani was born in Saudi Arabia, where his father, a Palestinian forced out of Haifa in 1948, worked for an oil company. He grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and attended Kenyon College (B.A., 1977) and Georgetown University (M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1990).

Part One of a FIVE PART LECTURE SERIES entitled:
AFTER GAZA: WHAT NEXT FOR ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS?

April 27
Joel Beinin (Stanford)
The US and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: US culture, domestic politics & global strategy

May 18
George Bisharat (UC Hastings)
The Occupation & the Attacks on Gaza: The International Legal Perspective

May 28
Phyllis Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies)
"The US and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Voices of Opposition"

June 10
Nadia Hijab (Institute for Palestine Studies)
The War on Gaza and its Aftermath: Looking Ahead

Wheelchair accessible.
Sign language interpretation.

$10-20 donation - no one turned away.

Official Website: http://bayarea.jvp.org