How Did We Get Here? A History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

An 8-week lecture series for the general public featuring five of the country's top Middle East history scholars. This series is an unprecedented collaboration between Arab, Jewish, and other professors. The current situation in the Middle East is grim and confusing. It is a subject filled with preconceptions and misinformation. Few of us know the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and we're not getting much help from the media. In order to be able to function better as informed citizens, we need to know more. A Jewish Voice for Peace is responding to this need with a lecture series on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict presented by Professors Beshara Doumani (UC Berkeley), Joel Beinin (Stanford), George Bisharat (Hastings School of Law), Ahmad Dallal (Stanford), and Stephen Zunes (University of San Francisco). No prior background in the field is needed. You can attend as many or as few lectures as you want. The series is designed to survey the history of the conflict, but each lecture is independent of the others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday nights 7:30pm - 9:30pm October 21 to December 9. Geary Theater, Lower Lounge (415 Geary, at Mason--Powell Street BART) Parking available at the Downtown Center Garage (corner of Mason and O'Farrell) $10-$20 per lecture (sliding scale. $5 students/low income) $60-$160 for the whole series (sliding scale. $30 students/low income) Tickets and passes will be available at the door. Cash or check only. To reserve a pass please email us at: lectures@jewishvoiceforpeace.org the first session had more participants than the room could hold. Even though we are moving to a bigger space within the theatre, please reserve a ticket and come early to get a good seat. (10/21) Arab Palestine Before 1948 (Beshara Doumani) Suggested Readings (10/28) Zionism in Theory and Practice (Joel Beinin) (11/04) The Palestinian Refugees of 1948 (Joel Beinin and George Bisharat) (11/11) The 1967 War (Joel Beinin) (11/18) The 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Ahmad Dallal) Suggested Readings (11/25) The Occupation (George Bisharat) (12/02) From Oslo to the Second Intifada (George Bisharat and Joel Beinin) (12/09) US Policy Towards Israel and Palestine (Stephen Zunes) We hope to sell audio and video recordings of the series in January, 2003. For more info please email us at: lectures@jewishvoiceforpeace.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Beshara Doumani Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley. Author: Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus 1700-1900. Editor, Family History in the Middle East: Household, Gender and Property. Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East history at Stanford University. His recent books include Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report (University of California Press, 1998, co-edited with Joe Stork) and Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2001). He is currently serving as the President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. George Bisharat Professor at UC Hastings. His study of the impact of Israeli occupation on the Palestinian legal profession of the West Bank, Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank, was published in 1989. In recent years, Professor Bisharat has consulted with the Palestinian Legislative Council over the structure of the Palestinian judiciary, reforms in criminal procedure, and other aspects of legal development. Ahmad Dallal Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Stanford. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Traditions of Reform: Trends in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought and the editor of a forthcoming anthology, Islam in the Modern World. Stephen Zunes Associate Professor of Politics and Chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. He serves as a senior policy analyst and Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press.) Suggested Readings Arab Palestine Before 1948 Rediscovering Palestine : Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 by Beshara Doumani Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charles D. Smith Palestine in Transformation by Scholch Alexabder Palestinians: The Making of a People By Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi The 1982 Invasion of Lebanon Kamal Salibi, A House of Many Mansions, Berkeley, 1988 Dilip Hiro, Lebanon: Fire and Embers, London, 1993 Rashid Kahidi, Under Siege: PLO Decision Making During the 1982 War, NY, 1986.