Middle East Centre public lecture
Date: Thursday 2 December 2010
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: CLM.D302, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Yezid Sayigh
Chair: Professor Fawaz Gerges
Professor Sayigh will examine Palestinian political dynamics, as a critical element in what will happen in the wider context of relations with Israel and of what outside powers can or should do.
Yezid Sayigh is professor of Middle East Studies, King's College London. In 1990-1994 he was an advisor and negotiator in the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks with Israel, and has been a consultant on the permanent status negotiations and on Palestinian reform since 1998. His most recent publications include Policing the People, Building the State: Authoritarian transformation in the West Bank and Gaza, Carnegie Paper, 2010 (forthcoming); Hamas Rule in Gaza: Three Years On, Middle East Brief, No. 41, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, March 2010; "Fixing Broken Windows:" Security Sector Reform in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen, Carnegie Paper, October 2009; and 'Inducing a failed state in Palestine', Survival, Vol. 49, No. 3, Autumn 2007.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email r.lowe@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7107 5308. Or see Middle East Centre website.
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