Jewish Voice for Peac Pittsburgh, First Unitarian Chuch of Pittsburgh
A discussion with Rabbi Arik Asherman, President, Rabbis for Human Rights, Jerusalem, Dr. Ronald Stone, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and adjunct professor of religion, University of Pittsburgh and Iman Atef Mahgoub, Imam of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh
Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Pittsburgh
Alison Weir is an American journalist. She is the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization If Americans Knew (IAK) and president of another US-based non-profit, the Council for the National Interest (CNI). Both organizations are concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Alison Weir will discuss her new book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" at three events at the University of Pittsburgh
Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Pittsburgh
Alison Weir is an American journalist. She is the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization If Americans Knew (IAK) and president of another US-based non-profit, the Council for the National Interest (CNI). Both organizations are concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Alison Weir will discuss her new book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel" at three events at the University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee, the Thomas Merton, CERIS
Dr. Nahida Gordon
and Ahmed Arafat
A panel discussion.
Dr. Gordon is Professor Emerita at Case-Western Reserve University, a steering committee
member of the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA),
and pre-1948 native of Jerusalem. She has been a guest on Democracy Now.
Pittsburgh resident Ahmed Arafat was born and raised in Gaza by refugee parents.
He will relate the personal stories of his family’s life in Gaza.
Dr. Lucinda Mosher, director of the interfaith chaplaincy program at Hartford Seminary will speak on "Building Interfaith Neighborhoods"
Admission is free of charge.
People of all faiths encouraged to attend.
Event is sponsored by the new grassroots organization, "Greater Pittsburgh Interfaith Coalition", a new grassroots organization seeking to convene our region's diverse faith communities.
General Petraeus' lecture is the culminating event of AMEI's 7th Annual Business Conference, OASIS: Growing Business Between the U.S. and the Middle East.
General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army retiree, academic professor and chairman of KKR Global Institute will speak at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland at 8 p.m., as the culminating event of AMEI's 7th Annual Business Conference.
Tickets prices are $65 for the first floor, $45 for the first balcony and $25 for the second balcony.
Robert J. Donia is a leading historian of Bosnia & Herzegovina (Islam under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina 18781914 [1981]; Bosnia & Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed [with John Fine, 1994], Sarajevo: A Biography [2006]) and was a frequent expert witness for the Office of the Prosecutor in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee and the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh
The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee invite you to join us for "Opening Doors: Coexistence in Medieval Spain." This presentation, titled "Vignettes of Coexistence in Al-Andalus" will be given by guest speaker, Maria Del Mar Rosa Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
