WALTZ WITH BASHIR - A special screening with guest speaker and post-film Q&A February 7, 2009

Asher Kaufman joined the University of Notre Dame faculty in August 2005. Prior to that, he taught at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. From 2000 to 2004, he was a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, and headed its Middle East Unit in 2004-05.
Kaufman is the author of Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon, a history of modern Lebanese national identity. He has also written articles on topics such as the evolution of Hizbullah (the Shi‘ite radical movement in Lebanon), Israeli policy in the Middle East, and various boundary disputes in the region. His current projects are a study on boundaries, territoriality and identities of the Syrian, Lebanese and Israeli shared borders; and a study of memory and forgetfulness as they relate to the Lebanese civil war and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Kaufman's recent work includes a book he co-edited with Elie Podeh, titled Arab-Jewish Relations: From Conflict to Reconciliation?, and an article entitled "Forgetting the Lebanon War? On Silence, Denial and Selective Remembrance of the First Lebanon War," that will appear in a forthcoming book edited by Jay Winter, Efrat Ben Zeev and Ruth Ginio, The Social Construction of Silence: Reflections on War and Violence since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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