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The Crisis in Gaza
January 26, 2009 @ 12:00 am
THE CRISIS IN GAZA IN REGIONAL & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Speakers:
Richard Falk, Visiting Professor, Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara and Emeritus Professor, Princeton University UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights; Author of Achieving Human Rights (2009); Costs of War: the UN, International Law and World Order After Iraq (2008).
“Did the UN Fail in Gaza? Yes and No”
Juan Campo, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, the History of Religions, Dept. of Religious Studies & Global Studies affiliate, Editor and chief author of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Islam (February, Facts on File)
“Hamas, the Arab States, and Popular Reaction”
Salim Yaqub, Associate Professor of History at UCSB, specializing in U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004).
“The United States, Gaza, and Collective Punishment”
Nancy Gallagher, Moderator
Professor, History Dept., UCSB, Chair Middle Eastern Studies Program, Author of Quakers in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism (2007).
“A (Brief) Background to the Conflict”
Monday, January 26, 2009
4:00 PM
Multicultural Center Theater
Sponsored by the UCSB Department of History
This program is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact:
(805) 893-2991
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