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Pomona
College Hosts Symposium on “The Sixth War 2006: Israel,
Lebanon and the Creation of the ‘New Middle East’”
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“The Sixth War 2006: Israel, Lebanon and the Creation of the
New Middle East” is the subject of a Pomona College
symposium, which will examine the causes and the
consequences of the war. The symposium will be held on
Friday, February 23.
 The
conflict between Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the
Israeli military began in July 2006 and formally ended Sept.
8, 2006. Within those few months, 1,200 people were
killed—most of whom were Lebanese. Lebanese infrastructure
collapsed and 975,000 Lebanese and 300,000 Israelis were
displaced. Since the U.N.-brokered ceasefire there have been
mixed reactions on who gained most in the war.
The “Sixth War” forum will examine whether the war on
Lebanon was a war by proxy; the war’s effect on Israeli
objectives; Arab states, U.N., U.S. and Europe’s formal and
street reactions to the war on Lebanon; and how the war is
shaping the New Middle East.
Speakers at the symposium include:
-- As`ad AbuKhalil, author of Battle for Saudi
Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power and
professor of politics at California State University,
Stanislaus and visiting professor at University of
California, Berkeley.
-- Nubar Hovsepian, editor of The War on Lebanon:
A Reader (published in spring 2007) and professor of
political science and international studies at Chapman
University-Orange.
-- Charles D. Smith, author of Palestine and the
Arab Israeli Conflict, which is now in its sixth
edition. Smith is also professor of modern Middle East
history at the University of Arizona.
-- Andrew Winnick, who has written and spoken widely
on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on the history of
Iran and is professor of economics and statistics at
California State University, Los Angeles.
-- Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, organizer and moderator, is
a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Politics Department at
Pomona College and is professor of Middle East politics and
the Israeli-Arab conflict.
This event will be held from 1-3 p.m. in room 101 of the
Hahn Building (420 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont), and is
sponsored by Pomona College’s Politics Department and
International Relations Program.
View
full event brochure (pdf)
Pomona College is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offering a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the web at
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