[Los Angeles - APR 03, 2013] Dr. Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry and most recently Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance With Israel is Coming to an End, will speak at several Southern California events on "Israel, Palestine and the Future of Peace." Finkelstein was the subject of the 2009 documentary "American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein."

A former history professor at DePaul University, Finkelstein has been barred from entering Israel again for 10 years due to his visit with Hezbollah officials following the Israel-Lebanon war in 2006. His pronouncements have alarmed the conservative Jewish community, and his stance on the two-state solution has irked the Jewish and Arab American left. Nonetheless, Finkelstein's arguments are always insightful and compelling. 

By Chris Cryer

T. E. LawrenceWho has time to read during a revolution? Certainly nobody at Tahrir Square and nobody picking up the pieces in Tunisia or busy in Libya, or in Yemen trying to evaluate government statements of long-term support versus immediate need. I'd say we're the ones with time to read and maybe we should. This may be the best time ever to pull out writers both classic and new who address Middle Eastern history. We can peruse the messages they've left the people that we see rebounding now in terms of revolutionary change.