Please join MEF for our webinar offerings this week (10/12-10/16)
The Middle East Forum presents this week's webinars. Note: There will be no webinar on Monday, October 12.
Israel Insider
with Ashley Perry
Domestically, the government coalition is again on the verge of collapse; what are its prospects to survive? Can Netanyahu revive his popularity vis-à-vis Bennett? What effect will events in the region and beyond, like the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, have on Israel and its international standing?
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 3:00-3:30p.m. EDT Online:
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You can also reply to Stacey Roman at Stacey@meforum.org or by phone at 215-546-5406 ext. 113
Racing Against Time: Documenting Jewish Sites in the Middle East
with Jason Guberman-Pfeffer
Since the expulsion of nearly all Jews from of Muslim-majority countries over the past 75 years, most Jewish sites (schools, cemeteries, synagogues, shrines, and other structures) were abandoned, left without caretakers, and decayed. In “a race against time,” the Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life has documented cataloged, often covertly, some 2,800 remains through digital mapping technology, traditional scholarship, and field research. Warming ties between Israel and several Muslim countries ease the work of Diarna (Arabic, our homes), even Saudi Arabia. But severe challenges remain. How has warm peace helped Diarna’s work and what more can be done in countries such as Iraq and Yemen unlikely soon to experience a shift in attitude?
Friday, October 16, 2020 1:00 - 1:15p.m. EDT Online:
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You can also reply to Stacey Roman at Stacey@meforum.org or by phone at 215-546-5406 ext. 113
Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, coordinator of Diarna, is also executive director of the American Sephardi Federation (ASF). He is a graduate of Sacred Heart University and lives in New York.
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The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual, operational, and philanthropic means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government.