The Dialogue & Dignity Series includes speakers, workshops, and conversations aimed at building appreciation for discussion that includes different points of view for the development of understanding and good solutions to our most pressing issues.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in Olin Auditorium for a public talk by guest speakers David Myers and Hussein Ibish, titled “How Did We Get There? A Multi-Lens Perspective on the History of Israel-Palestine.”

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA. He has served as the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy, directed the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate, and served as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies between 1996–2000 and 2004–2010.

Myers has written extensively in the fields of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history, including writing six books and editing or co-editing 12 books and serving as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Myers is an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.

Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is a weekly columnist for The National (UAE), former columnist for Bloomberg, regular contributor to The New York Times and The Daily Beast, and frequent contributor to many other U.S. and Middle Eastern publications. He previously served as a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine and as executive director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership. 

Ibish’s most recent book is “What’s Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal” (ATFP, 2009).