UPCOMING EVENTS

Robert Wistrich

A LETHAL OBSESSION
Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to Global Jihad

Wednesday, November 11,2009
4:00-6:00 pm
Jewish Studies Seminar Room

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Barry Rubin

Why There Won't Be Peace in the Middle East

Friday, November 13, 2009
12:00-1:30 pm
Holzapfel Hall, Room 0142

Professor Barry Rubin is a professor at the Interdisciplinary University, founding director of Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal and of Turkish Studies.  He has written more than a dozen books, and edited or written chapters for many more.  During his career he has taught at numerous universities, including American, Bar-Ilan, Georgetown, Hebrew, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Tel Aviv.    He also writes the Middle East column for the Jerusalem Post and an international affairs column for the Turkish Daily News.

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RECENT EVENTS

Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War

Contrary to previous interpretations, Ginor and Remez provide evidence that the war resulted from a joint Soviet-Arab gambit to provoke Israel into a pre-emptive attack. The authors show that the Soviets received a secret Israeli message indicating that Israel, despite its official ambiguity, was about to acquire nuclear weapons. Determined to destroy Israel's nuclear program before it could produce an atomic bomb, the Soviets began preparing for war--well before Moscow accused Israel of offensive intent, the overt trigger of the crisis.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

For more information, please e-mail: amaliasl@umd.edu
Or call 301-405-9413

JERUSALEM:
3000 Years of Development of the City and its Quarters

Avner Amiri
Israeli conservation architect

Presented at the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland, 10/21/09

Next Summer There Will Be War:
The Media and the Construction of National Security Perceptions

Dr. Yoram Peri
Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair of Israel Studies,and
Director of the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Presented at the University of Maryland Department of Communication Colloquium Series, 9/11/09

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Politics and Violoence in Israel/Palestine:
Past, Present and Future

Lev Luis Greenberg
Ben Gurion University

Presented at the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland, 9/25/09

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