The Y&S Nazarian Center is pleased to collaborate with Brandeis' Crown Center for Middle East Studies on the September 10 half-day conference "Looking Forward, Looking Back: 100 Years of the Arab-Israeli Conflict."

The event is organized by Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies and co-sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Other co-sponsors include Tufts University's Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, The University of Arizona's Center for Judaic Studies, and The American Interest.

The conference on the occasion of the 100 year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration will bring together top scholars and public figures to assess the past and discuss the future for both Israel and Palestine. The event will be held at Brandeis University's Massachusetts campus, but can be viewed by visiting this page the day of the conference.

Sunday, September 10
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST

Program

Opening Remarks - 9:00 AM

• Prof. Shai Feldman - Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics at Brandeis University

Session I: Zionism and its Regional Environment: The First 100 Years - 9:15 AM

• Prof. Jehuda Reinharz - Former President of Brandeis University and current Director of the Tauber Institute and President of the Mandel Foundation
• Dr. Abdel Monem Said Aly - Senior Fellow at the Crown Center and also the Chairman of Al-Masry Al-Youm, a leading Arabic language daily newspaper in Egypt

Session II: Palestine: The Paths Ahead - 11:15 AM

• Dr. Ziad Asali - Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister (2007 - 2013)
• Prof. George Bisharat - Honorable Raymond L. Sullivan Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco

Session III: Israel: Alternative Futures - 1:15 PM

• Presentations: Prof. Asher Susser - Stein Family Professor of Modern Israel Studies at the University of Arizona, Professor of History in the Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and a Senior Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• Prof. Martin Kramer - Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Founding President of Shalem College in Jerusalem

Concluding Remarks - 2:45 PM

• Mr. Nadim Shehadi - Director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and Associate Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House