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Original Event Description

Israel vs. Hezbollah: What Kind of War? What Next for the Middle East?
Discussion and Commentary by Case Western Reserve Faculty
September 7, 2006, 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
1914 Lounge of the Thwing Student Center

This event will be a panel discussion with a wide range of perspectives and expertise. The discussion will be moderated by Joe White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Department of Political at Case Western Reserve University.

Peter J. Haas: Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies, Director of the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Haas is an ordained Reform rabbi, has served as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, and earned his Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Brown University in 1980. After two decades at Vanderbilt University, Professor Haas came to Case in January of 2000. His most recent book deals with human rights in the Jewish tradition. Professor Haas has taught courses in Judaism, Jewish ethics, the Holocaust, Western Religion, and the Middle East conflict, and is currently teaching RLGN 223, "Religious Roots of Conflict in the Middle East."

Ramez Islambouli: Adjunct Professor of Law and lecturer in both Islam (in the Department of Religious Studies) and Arabic (in the Department of World Languages and Literatures) at Case. A native of Lebanon, Mr. Islambouli moved to the United States in 1985 to pursue his academic studies. He holds both an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and a masters degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University. He also has taught courses on Islamic studies at Cleveland State University, John Carroll University, and Cuyahoga Community College. Mr. Islambouli serves as a Muslim Chaplain at University Hospitals and for the School of Law, and is the President of Uqbah Mosque Foundation in Cleveland.

Pete W. Moore is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University in 1999, and was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami from 2001-2005. Dr. Moore also is a Senior Research Fellow with the Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, based in Montreal. He has published on issues of political economy and trade politics in the Middle East, including Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His current project comparatively examines the politics of war economies in Lebanon, Algeria, and Iraq.