[LCM Events] Brokers of Deceit: How the US has undermined peace in the Middle East - A Lecture and Book Signing with Rashid Khalidi

[Nour Azzouz]

Wellesley Arab Women and Wellesley SJP cordially invite you to join us for
a lecture and book signing with Rashid Khalidi. He will be discussing his
latest book Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the
Middle East.


Please join us for a conversation with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said
Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. The discussion
will focus on his new book, Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined
Peace in the Middle East.


This event will take place in the Pendleton Atrium in Wellesley College on
Thursday, April 11, 12:15-1:30 (Lunch will be served).

Rashid Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from
Oxford in 1974. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was
President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the
Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace
negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of: Brokers of
Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing
Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The
Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006);
Resurrecting
Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle
East(2004); Palestinian
Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under
Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy
Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine
and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991)

He teaches courses on Modern Middle Eastern History; The United States, the
Middle East and the Cold War; Islamic Movements in the Modern Middle East;
The Modern History of Palestine; and Nationalism in the Arab World.

Information for off campus guests:

The Wellesley-MIT Exchange Bus provides transportation between Wellesley
and MIT on weekdays for Wellesley and MIT students, faculty and staff. All
others may purchase tickets at the Out of Town News in Harvard Square,
LaVerde's Market in the Stratton Student Center at MIT and at the Marlboro
Market located on 45 Mass Ave. (at Marlborough St.)

The Exchange Bus picks up and drops off at the Chapel, Alumnae Hall, MIT
Building N52 on Massachusetts Avenue, Building 34 on Vassar Street, Kendall
T Stop on Main Street, Building E40 on Amherst Street, Building 44 on
Vassar Street, 77 Massachusetts Avenue (the MIT Student Center), and at the
intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston.

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Parking for guests is available in the Davis Parking Lot near the Route 16
entrance to the college.


*Link to facebook event:*

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Please do not hesitate to contact msalhab at wellesley.edu or
nazzouz at wellesley.edu with questions or concerns. For disabilities
assistance, please contact jwice at wellesley.edu





-- 
Nour Azzouz
Class of 2015
Wellesley College
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