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Global Agenda 2009-Tinderbox-Understanding The Middle East

posted by jeffers at April 21st, 2009
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Global Agenda 2009-Tinderbox-Understanding The Middle East
Date & Time: April 22, 2009 – 4:30-6:00 PT (7:30pm ET)
This week #5 of 7:  Understanding Israel
Speaker: Tom Segev – Israel
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
For Questions or TP help: Firery Broome

This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.

Tom is a historian and a weekly columnist for Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading newspaper. He is author of six books that have been translated in seven languages, including Israel: 1949: The First Israelis, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, a New York Times editors’ choice best book for 2000. His most recent book is 1967-Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East. He has just completed the first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, to be published by the end of 2009. 

He was born in 1945 in Jerusalem, and continues to live there.

The series is hosted by Ralph Begleiter, Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, and former CNN World Affairs Correspondent. 

Global Agenda: http://www.udel.edu/global