The West Bank and Gaza Strip: Welcome and Keynote Address

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The West Bank and Gaza Strip: Welcome and Keynote Address

Sponsored by:
*The Office of the Special Adviser for Campus Intellectual Life
*The Experimental College Colloquium on Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian Nationalism
*The Program in Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Professor Andrew Hess
Director, the Program in Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Sherman Teichman
Director, West Bank and Gaza Colloquium (WBGC), Special Adviser for Campus Intellectual Life, College of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University

Introductions
Brenda Needle, Leila Abu-Gheida, Kristina Hare, WBGC, Tufts University

Slide Presentation
Produced by Beth Silverman, Victor Assal, Leila Abu-Gheida, Anne Casper, Kristina Hare, Sloane Ivanovich, Cathy Young, Andrew Nebel, Andrew Page, WBGC, Tufts University

Keynote Addresses
Introductions by Mark Berman, Ramla Khalidi, WBGC, Tufts University

The Crystallization of Palestinian National Identity in the 1980's
Professor Elia Zureik
Professor of Sociology; Director of Studies in Communication and Information Technology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario; author: The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism; co-editor of The Sociology of the Palestinians; editor with Fouad Moughrabi of a forthcoming study - Public Opinion and the Palestine Questions; Co-editor of the Occasional Papers series on the Middle East published jointly by the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada and the International Center for Research and Public Policy, Washington, D.C.

Fateful Choices for Israel
Professor Yehoshafat Harkabi
Hexter Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies and Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; former chief of Israeli Military Intelligence; head of Strategic Research for the Minister of Defense and Advisor for Intelligence to Israeli's Prime Minister. Dr. Harkabi's works include - Arab Strategies and Israel's Response; The Bar Kochba Syndrome: Risk and Realism in International Relations, and most recently, Fateful Choices (Hebrew).