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“Perspectives of Peace” lecture series begins

Diana Buttu will speak at Smith this month.

This month marks the beginning of a fall lecture series “Perspectives of Peace: Through the Eyes of Palestinian Women”. The lectures are sponsored by the Betty Hamady Sams ’57 and James F. Sams Fund, the Middle East Studies Program, and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College.

The first lecture, On the Front Line: An Account of Peace Negotiations between Israel and Palestine, features guest speaker Diana Buttu, Dubai Initiative Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Buttu played key roles in Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations from 2000 to 2005. Her talk is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Seelye Hall 106.

Susan Abulhawa will speak on campus on October 26.

The second talk in the series is scheduled for Wednesday, October 26 at 5:30 in Seelye Hall 106. Palestinian-American Susan Abulhawa will discuss Women and Culture in Resistance. Abulhawa, who is the author of the novel, Mornings in Jenin, is the daughter of Palestinian refugees of the 1967 war. She will explore the “nature of a new wave of noteworthy achievements and creations originating in Palestine and the Palestinian Diaspora”.

The third Perspectives of Peace lecture is scheduled for Monday, November 14 at noon. The guest speaker will be Malika Gheza.

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