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Haaretz has an interesting article on an initiative to build dialogue between settlers and Palestinians – 2 groups where you might think dialogue would be impossible. The article doesn’t suggest that this dialogue is easy, or that it is very common. But surely if protagonists in a terrible conflict can talk to each other then Jews might also be able to talk among themselves better than they do.
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The Centre for Jewish Studies at SOAS
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: University of Exeter
In association with The Joseph Interfaith Foundation
Confronting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia An exploration of their socio-historic and theological roots and similarities
One-day international conference Tuesday 10 November 2009 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London – WC1H 0XG
09:15 – 09:45 Registration and coffee
09:45 -10:00 Introduction
10:00 -11:00 Socio-historic Roots and Similarities Professor Tahir Abbas: BSc(Econ) MSocSc PhD FRSAVisiting Professor, Birkbeck College,
University of London; Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies Dr Adam Silverstein University Research Lecturer, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies;
Fellow of Queen’s College Prof. Michael Berkowitz Professor, Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College,
London Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini (chair) Research Associate, Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
11:00 -11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 12:15 The American Perspective Dr Zain Abdullah Assistant Professor of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity, Dept. of Religion, Associate
faculty, Dept. of Geography & Urban Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Prof. Oliver Leaman Professor of Philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic Studies, University of
Kentucky, USA Prof. David Cesarani (chair) Research Professor of History, Director of Research, Royal Holloway
University, London
12:15 – 13:00 Students on the Campus Salman WaqarStudent Affairs Committee, Federation of Students IslamicSocieties
Representative of UJSTBC Dr Usama Hasan (chair) Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University; part-time Imam at Masjid-al-Tawhid
in Leytonstone, London
13:00 -14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Theological Roots and Comparisons Dr Sajjad Rizvi Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of
MA in Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Rabbi Prof. Marc Saperstein Principal, Leo Baeck College, London Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi FRSA/ESRC/AHRC Fellow, Reader in Politics; Co-ordinator, Democracy
and Islam programme, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (chair) Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action,
Conservative Party
15:00 – 15:45 Workshops
15:45 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 16:30 Plenary: The way forward
For further details:
Please email Professor Colin Shindler on cs52@soas.ac.uk
