Tuesday, October 1, 5:30-7:00 pm, Club Spartan, Room 338 (third floor), Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Rd.

A presentation describing the political, social, economic aspects affecting 21% of Israel’s population, who are indigenous Palestinians with Israeli citizenship since 1948.  

Mohammad Darawshe is the Director of Center for Equality and Shared Society at Givat Haviva Institute in Israel.  He is also a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and serves as an expert on national minorities at the European Council in Strasbourg. Currently he is a visiting scholar at the Illinois Global Institute at The State University of Illinois and was also a visiting scholar at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich. He holds a B.A from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Haifa University, and is currently working on his PhD in Teaching and Learning Strategies at An-Najah National University.  He is considered a leading expert on Jewish-Arab relations and has presented lectures and papers lectures and papers at the European parliament, NATO Defense College, the World Economic Forum, Club de Madrid, US Congress, Herzlia conference and Israel’s Presidential Conference.