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December 2, 2005
Middle East Expert Will Present Series of Lectures at William Paterson University in Wayne from December 6 to 8
Josef Olmert, an expert on the Middle East, Syria, Lebanon, Palestinian and Israeli politics, will present a series of discussions at William Paterson University in Wayne from Tuesday, December 6 to Thursday, December 8, 2005. The lectures are free and the public is invited to attend.
Olmert will speak on Tuesday, December 6 at 7 p.m. in Raubinger 01 on “The Sharon Plan: How the New Kadimah Party Hopes to Move Israel and Her Neighbors Towards a Lasting Peace.” On Wednesday, December 7, from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. in Science 200B, Olmert will join with students from various courses for a talk and discussion on Israeli-Palestinian relations. On Thursday, December 8, from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Hunziker Wing 101, he will speak about “America, Syria, Iran and Israel: Averting Disaster in the Middle East.”
Olmert holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in Middle East history. He has served as director of the Government of Israeli Press Office and a senior advisor to then-Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir, during the first Gulf War. He was a senior policy advisor to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens. He has been a political columnist for Israel’s largest circulation daily newspaper for many years, and is the author of three books on the Middle East. A highly sought speaker, he has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, City College of New York, and York University, and has lectured widely at conferences all over the world.
For more information or if you would like to attend the lectures, please contact Miryam Wahrman at wahrmanm@wpunj.edu or call 973-720-3456.
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