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April 8 Middle East Lecture to feature top
Palestinian advocate
NEW
BRITAIN – March 27, 2008 – Dr. Ghada Karmi,
physician, author and activist will be the
featured speaker at the next Middle East
Insights lecture
series at
Central Connecticut State University. She is
scheduled to appear at 4 p.m., April 8, in room
105 of the Vance Academic Center. The event is
free and open to the public.
Dr. Karmi will discuss her latest book, “Married
to Another Man,” which examines various aspects
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
advocates a single, bi-national state solution.
The lecture is free and open to the public as
well as the campus community. The CCSU
bookstore will have copies of the book available
for purchase at the event,
and the author has agreed to sign them
for those in attendance.
Dr. Norton Mezvinsky, who holds the rank of CSU
Professor and is a professor history at CCSU,
organized the Middle East Insights lecture
series in 2006. He continues to arrange for a
variety of prominent Middle East scholars and
experts in diverse areas to speak at CCSU. Dr.
Mezvinsky calls the next speaker in the series
“one of the world's most renowned commentators
on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a
well-known figure on British radio and TV.”
Born in Jerusalem, she was forced to leave as a
child in 1948 and grew up in Britain where she
became a physician, as well as a medical
historian, an academic and a distinguished
writer on the Palestinian issue. Currently, Dr.
Karmi is a research fellow and lecturer at the
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies,
University of Exeter. She has also been a
visiting professor at London Metropolitan
University and is the author of several books,
including a widely acclaimed memoir, “In Search
of Fatima.”
Dr. Karmi makes
a distinction between bi-nationalism and secular
democracy in advocating a bi-national state. She
argues that,
"In a secular democratic state, on the other
hand, citizens would have rights not derived
from membership in an ethnic or religious
group... Unlike the bi-nationalist state, a
secular democracy was likely to be conducive
towards helping its citizens develop a common
national identity."
Professor Mezvinsky adds, “She is one of the
world's best Palestinian advocates. Anyone
interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
should try to attend her lecture.”
The lecture series is sponsored by CCSU’s
Committee on Middle Eastern Studies, the George
R. Muirhead Center for International Education,
History Department, and Peace Studies Program.
Parking will be available in CCSU garages and
surface lots. Directions to CCSU are at the
University’s website:http://www.ccsu.edu/visit.htm
