American Foreign Policy toward the Middle East in the 21st Century
Ken Stein
Monday, 05 Mar 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Kenneth W. Stein is the William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies at Emory University and director of Emory's Middle East Research Program and the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel. He is the author of four books, including Hebrew and English editions of Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace (1999), Making Peace Among Arabs and Israelis: Lessons from Fifty Years of Negotiating Experience (1991), and The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 (1984/2003).This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Ames Jewish Congregation Israel Education Comm.
- ISU Hillel
- Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines
- Jewish Studies Committee
- LAS Miller Funds
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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