TORONTO, February 7, 2001 -- Israeli scholar Asher Susser will speak at York University’s Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) on Tuesday, February 13, on the subject of Collective Identities and Peace-making in the Middle East, following the landslide victory by right-winger Ariel Sharon in Israeli elections this week.
Susser is Israel’s foremost scholar on contemporary Jordan and a leading analyst of Arab-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian relations and the repercussions in the region of establishing a Palestinian state. He accompanied the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to Amman when the Israeli-Jordan peace treaty was signed and presented to the Jordanian people in 1994. He is the former director and now senior fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University and has been a Fulbright Fellow, a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Brandeis University, and a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Susser is author of a number of books, including: Between Jordan and Palestine: A Political Biography of Wasfi al-Tall (1983, in Hebrew); The PLO after the War in Lebanon (1985, in Hebrew); and On Both Banks of the Jordan (1994). He was co-editor of At the Core of the Conflict: The Intifada (1992, in Hebrew), and The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World (1995), and editor of Six-Days, Thirty Years: New Perspectives on the Six-Day War (1999, in Hebrew). He is currently writing a new book on politics and society in modern Jordan.
Susser’s talk will take place at 12:30 – 2 p.m. in room 305 York Lanes, York University, Keele Campus, 4700 Keele St.
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For further information, please contact:
David Dewitt Director, York Centre for International & Security Studies (416) 736-5156 ddewitt@yorku.ca |
Susan Bigelow Media Relations York University (416) 736-2100, ext. 22091 sbigelow@yorku.ca |
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