Author Panel: The Middle East

The Festival

Location: Lahn Social Hall

In conversation with Harvey Shapiro, Attorney, Partner Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP

Sponsored by Hyland Levin Shapiro, LLP

Uri Kaufman, Eighteen Days in October. The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East

Octo­ber 2023 marks the 50th anniver­sary of the Yom Kip­pur War, a con­flict that shaped the mod­ern Mid­dle East. The war was a trau­ma for Israel and fol­low­ing the oil embar­go, a piv­otal reorder­ing of the glob­al eco­nom­ic order. The Jew­ish State came shock­ing­ly close to defeat, but argues Uri Kauf­man, from the per­spec­tive of a half cen­tu­ry, the war can be seen as a piv­otal vic­to­ry for Israel.

Oren Kessler, Palestine 1936. The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

In 1936 the Holy Land erupt­ed in rebel­lion against both the local Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion and the British Man­date author­i­ties. The Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thou­sands of lives, and cast the tra­jec­to­ry for the Mid­dle East con­flict ever since. Incred­i­bly, no gen­er­al his­to­ry of this sem­i­nal first Intifa­da has ever been published. Pales­tine 1936 weaves his­to­ry through extra­or­di­nary indi­vid­u­als on all sides: their love and hatreds, deep­est fears, and pro­found hopes.

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