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  Israel’s 2013 Election: At a Political Crossroad

  January 17, 2013 / Lectures Live

  On January 14, 2013, the Program for Jewish Civilization convened a day-long conference on the legislative elections that will be held on January 22 in Israel. The conference comprised three spectacular panels, bringing together scholars, policy practitioners, and journalists from all over Washington, DC and the Middle East. Moran Stern, who teaches for the PJC at Georgetown University, moderated a panel on domestic Israeli politics, made up of Natasha Mozgovaya of Haaretz and Natan Sachs of the Saban Center at [...]

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  Bruce Hoffman Analyzes bin Laden’s Death

  December 5, 2012 / Faith Complex

  On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALS cornered and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, nearly ten years after the so-called War on Terror was first declared. Bin Laden’s death leaves unanswered questions such as: Who will inherit al-Qaeda’s leadership? What is the future of the Taliban insurgency? And will this lead to greater stability in the region? Bruce Hoffman joins Professor Sarah Fainberg to discuss these problematics in this Faith Complex. Dr. Hoffman is Director of the Center for Peace [...]

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  Dan Schueftan on the Strategic Environment in the Middle East

  December 5, 2012 / Lectures Live

  In this talk, Professor Dan Schueftan discusses how the recent social and political changes in the Middle East affect the strategic environment there, particularly as it relates to Israeli and American foreign policy and the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Dr. Schueftan is the Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Sciences there and at the Israel Defense Forces National Defense College. He is the Aaron and Cecile [...]

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  Frédéric Encel on France, Iran, and the Middle East

  October 14, 2011 / Faith Complex

  Iran’s nuclear program has been a source of consternation for its neighbors in the Middle East–most notably Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia–as well as for the rest of the world. The United States has a strong desire not to see a nuclear Iran, especially under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Khamenei, but it is not the only one. In this Faith Complex, French geopolitics expert Frédéric Encel and Dr. Sarah Fainberg discuss the triangulation of Israel, [...]

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