| Original Event Details
Israel vs. Hezbollah: What Kind of War? What
Next for the Middle East?
Discussion and Commentary by Case Western Reserve
Faculty
A Center for Policy Studies Forum:
September 7, 2006, 11:30 ― 1:00 p.m.
1914 Lounge of the Thwing Student Center
This event will be a panel discussion with a wide range of perspectives and
expertise. The discussion will be moderated by Joe White,
Luxenberg
Family Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Department of Political at
Case Western Reserve Universtiy.
Participating panelists will be:
 Peter
J. Haas: Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies, Director of the
Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, and Chair of the Department of
Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Haas is an
ordained Reform rabbi, has served as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, and earned
his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Brown University in 1980. After two decades
at Vanderbilt University, Professor Haas came to Case in January of 2000. His
most recent book deals with human rights in the Jewish tradition. Professor
Haas has taught courses in Judaism, Jewish ethics, the Holocaust, Western
Religion, and the Middle East conflict, and is currently teaching RLGN 223,
"Religious Roots of Conflict in the Middle East."
Ramez Islambouli: Adjunct Professor of Law and lecturer in both
Islam (in the Department of Religious Studies) and Arabic (in the Department
of World Languages and Literatures) at Case. A native of Lebanon, Mr.
Islambouli moved to the United States in 1985 to pursue his academic studies.
He holds both an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and a masters
degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University. He also has taught
courses on Islamic studies at Cleveland State University, John Carroll
University, and Cuyahoga Community College. Mr. Islambouli serves as a Muslim
Chaplain at University Hospitals and for the School of Law, and is the
President of Uqbah Mosque Foundation in Cleveland.
 Pete
W. Moore is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Case Western
Reserve University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill
University in 1999, and was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the
University of Miami from 2001-2005. Dr. Moore also is a Senior Research Fellow
with the Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, based
in Montreal. He has published on issues of political economy and trade
politics in the Middle East, including Doing Business in the Middle East:
Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait (Cambridge University Press,
2004). His current project comparatively examines the politics of war
economies in Lebanon, Algeria, and Iraq.
|
