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Professors Jules Lobel and Magid Shihade will discuss the current crisis in Gaza, its local, regional and global impact, and the role of the United States in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Monday, March 30, 5pm
Carnegie Mellon, Porter Hall 100

Political Science Professor Majid Shihade is currently an Endowed Visiting Professor on Contemporary Global Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a research Associate at the Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Shihade has published articles in the Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), the Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences (JAPSS), and in publications such as Men of the Global South. He has also published chapters on comparative violence, race and religion in an edited volume–”Color Struck”– among other places. His manuscript—What a soccer game reveals: Modernity, Colonialism, the State, and Violence among Arabs in Israel, is under an advanced contract with Syracuse University Press.

University of Law Professor Jules Lobel recently traveled to Israel and Palestine with an international human rights delegation and met with high ranking officials from Israel and both Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations. Professor Lobel has litigated important issues regarding the application of international law in the U.S. courts. He is editor of a text on civil rights litigation and of a collection of essays on the U.S. Constitution, “A Less Than Perfect Union” (Monthly Review Press, 1988). He is author of numerous articles on international law, foreign affairs, and the U.S. Constitution in publications including Yale Law Journal, Harvard International Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. He is a member of the American Society of International Law.

Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada,  speaking on Palestine

March 17
7:00pm
David Lawrence Hall, Room 120
University of Pittsburgh.