Rashid Khalidi, one of the foremost historians of the modern Middle East, zeroes in on the United States’ role as broker of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Analyzing the 1982 “Reagan Plan,” the negotiations leading to the Oslo Accords, and President Obama’s stance toward the conditions for Middle East peace, Khalidi reveals how U.S. influence has been used over the past 35 years.
What is our responsibility for the success or failure of the peace process? What needs to change to make peace in the Middle East a reality?
Co-sponsored by Don and Jeannette McInnes and the Middle East Education Group at First Parish in Cambridge
Wednesday, March 13 @8pm (NOTE the later start time.)
3 Church Street (Harvard Square)
MIT’s Noam Chomsky and Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children’s Alliance discuss A Child’s View of Gaza, the book of Palestinian children’s artwork slated for exhibition at the Oakland Museum of Children’s Art. The exhibition was cancelled at the last minute without explanation. Have children become pawns in a larger conflict? How has this come about? What does it say about the possibilities for peaceful resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian impasse?