Interfaith Literacy: Interfaith and Historical Perspectives on the Crisis in Israel and Palestine

Facilitated by: Bill Zangeneh-Lester, Humanities and Religious Studies
Flex credit: 1.5 Hours

This multifaith, multidisciplinary panel discussion will challenge the ways the crisis in Israel and Palestine is being framed in binaries and false dichotomies—Jews versus Arabs, Palestinians versus Israelis, left versus right—it's more complicated, with more stories than just two. This talk will be hosted and moderated by Dr. Bill Zangeneh-Lester and features Dr. Najwa al-Qattan - an Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at LMU and the recipient of awards from the SSRC, the Middle East Studies Association, and the Turkish Studies Association; Dr. Amir Hussain, a Muslim, who teaches about Islam at LMU and is the outgoing president of the American Academy of Religion (AAR); and Dr. Gil Klein, an Israeli, and Associate Professor of Theological Studies at LMU has been awarded research fellowships at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University.

This webinar will be recorded. If you can't attend, you can access the recording when you have more time. If you can attend, there will be a Q&A session at the end of the discussion. Audience members can submit their questions.

This event meets ARC Strategic Goals 1 and 3; ARC’s Professional Development Competencies: Equity-Minded Service, Specialized Expertise; and State PD Guidelines A and B. The event is open to both LRCCD employees and students.