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HISTORIAN, social activist and author Professor Ilan Pappe will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing Palestine during the term of President Donald Trump at an upcoming talk at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q).
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Tuesday (January 16) at 6:30pm at GU-Q's Education City campus.
Pappe is a professor of history and director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter and an internationally recognised researcher focusing on the modern Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict. His lecture aims to offer insight into the current and future impact of the Trump presidency, including opportunities that may arise from the recent controversial decision to move the location of the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
"The talk will explain why the Trump decision was not all bad news, as it will force anyone involved in the Palestine question to rethink the peace process and the basic ideas underlining it, as Trump is taking out the US from any mediating and meaningful role in the so-called peace process," explained Pappe."I hope the audience would open up after the talk for new thinking on the origins, essence and possible future of the Palestine question."
Pappe holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and previously taught at Haifa University before joining the faculty at the University of Exeter in 2008. He is the author of more than 20 books on Palestine and the Middle East, with titles including 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' (which has been translated into 15 languages), 'A History of Modern Palestine', and 'On Palestine' (with Noam Chomsky). His last book is 'The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Israeli Occupation'. (TNN)
