Event Details

Date/Time: 

Oct 28 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Price: 

Suggested donation $10 ($5 students) or purchase of book, refreshments included

Where: 

Levantine Cultural Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
one block east of Crescent Heights Blvd.
ample street parking

with Drs. Nubar Hovsepian and Gabriel PiterbergThis program intends to encourage intellectual discussion surrounding the history and present political landscape in which Palestinians, Israelis and Lebanese find themselves, in the context of the nation-state, "peace," "war," "justice" and other such terms often bandied about in the mainstream media without the time to closely analyze just what is meant. In a progressive yet playful spirit, professors Hovsepian and Piterberg examine the region and open the conversation to your questions and comments.

7:00 pm social
7:30 presentations
8:30 moderated Q & A
9:00 pm book signing & close of event

Dr. Nubar Hovsepian is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Chapman University. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the Graduate Center-City University of New York. He edited The War on Lebanon (2007). His new book, Palestinian State Formation: Education and the Construction of National Identity, was published in 2008. He is currently working on a book on Edward Said as a Public Intellectual. In addition, he has written and edited four books (in Arabic), most notably on the Iranian revolution of 1979. He served as Political Affairs officer at the United Nations (1982-84), and has worked as publisher, journalist, and development specialist. Dr. Hovsepian specializes in comparative politics and international relations, with research and teaching interests in Middle East politics, state formation and educational institutions, democratic processes, nationalism, social movements and globalization, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Read a new review of The War on Lebanon.

Gabriel Piterberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Israel. He graduated at Tel Aviv University, where he majored in Middle East history and political science (BA), and Middle East and European history (MA). His D.Phil. in the history of the Ottoman Empire is from the University of Oxford. He taught at the University of Durham, England, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He has also taught at St. Anthony's and Balliol Colleges, Oxford. He is the author most recently of The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. He writes for the New Left Review and the London Review of Books.

Read a review of The Returns of Zionism. Read about The War on Lebanon.