The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) presents:
Seminar Series: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective
“Iran and Israel and the Arab world: New Discourses in a Changing Environment”
Professor Uzi Rabi
Director, Moshe Dayan Center for ?Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University
Thursday, May 1
6:30 PM
Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge, 7th Floor
Columbia University Law School
435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10025
Light refreshments will be served.
Seminars are open to the university community (undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty) and the interested public.
About The Speaker:
Uzi Rabi’s edited volume, International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Conflict Management and Crisis Revolution Since the Cold War, was published by I.B. Tauris during Fall 2010.Rabi’s paper, “A Political Culture and Foreign Policy Shaped by a Moderate Religious View – the Case of the Sultanate of Oman,” was presented at a conference on Ibadism of Oman, held at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, in May 2011. In early September he spoke at the University of Sau Paulo, Brazil, and at a number of engagements in Buenos Aires on “Is a Palestinian State Imminent? Perspectives and Possible Scenarios.” These events were organized by the Friends of TAU-Argentina. Also in September, Rabi participated in the annual conference hosted by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzilya, in a workshop on, “The Middle East: Between Democracy and State Failure?” The topic of his presentation was, “Is Yemen a Failed State?”
Prof. Rabi regularly appears on a number of national and international news broadcasting programs for his commentary on current events in the Middle East.