<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release March 4, 2013<br><br><font size="4"><b>Cambridge Forum Hosts Rashid Khalidi on “Brokers of Middle East Peace”</b></font><br><br>On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Cambridge Forum hosts pre-eminent historian of the Middle East, <b>Rashid Khalidi</b> discussing his latest book<i> Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East</i>. The forum takes place at 8:00 pm at the First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street in Harvard Square. Senior editor and former Middle East correspondent of PRI’s <i>The World</i>, <b>Aaron Schachter </b>moderates.<br><br>After more than three decades of “peace initiatives” in the Middle East, there is still no agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, no end to the Arab-Israeli conflict. In his newest book Brokers of Deceit, historian Rashid Khalidi examines the role the United States has played in the peace process during these years. Analyzing three key moments that illustrate America’s position, the 1982 "Reagan Plan," the negotiations leading to the Oslo Accords, and President Obama's stance toward the conditions for Middle East peace, Khalidi reveals how U.S. influence has been used over the past 35 years. What is our responsibility for the success or failure of the peace process? What could we change to make Middle Eastern peace a reality?<br> <br><b>Rashid Khalidi</b> is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is editor of the <i>Journal of Palestine Studies,</i> and the author of seven books about the Middle East, including <i>Sowing Crisis</i>, <i>The Iron Cage</i>,<i> Resurrecting Empire,</i> and <i>Palestinian Identity,</i> both of which were awarded the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle Eastern Studies Association. Khalidi’s writings on history and politics have appeared in the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>The Boston Globe</i>, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and <i>The Chicago Tribune</i> and many other publications. He has received fellowships from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.<br><br><b>Aaron Schachter</b> is senior editor of the BBC/PRI/WGBH radio news program <i>The World</i>. He previously served as a field correspondent in the Middle East reporting for <i>The World </i>for eight years. An award-winning reporter, he covered the second Palestinian Intifada, reporting extensively from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and had the good timing to be in Iraq when the Hussein family was caught – Uday and Qusay during summer 2003, and father Saddam that December. He has also reported stories from Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. <br><br>This program is co-sponsored by Don and Jeannette McInnes and the Middle East Education Group of First Parish in Cambridge.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.<br><br>#############<br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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