Bloomsburg University will host a lecture by Rashid Khalidi, professor and scholar at Columbia University, about the U.S. involvement in the Middle East on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Kehr Union Ballroom.
Khalidi’s lecture, free and open to the public, will focus on the Arab Spring, a new growth of revolutionary activity in the Middle East. Although much of the region is involved in the movement, the best-known examples include the Egyptian protests earlier this year and recent conflicts in Libya and Syria.
In addition to being the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia, Khalidi is former president of the Middle East Studies Association and was adviser to the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations during October 1991 and June 1993. He is a member on the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the national advisory committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East. He has authored several books and dozens of articles about the Middle East and is currently the editor of the Journal of Palestinian Studies.
The talk is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the history department.
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