April 8 - 7:30pm - Mitchell Hall - John Fisher Burns - London

JOHN FISHER BURNS is London Bureau Chief for The New York Times, where he covers international issues. He has written for The Times since 1975, is winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and is the longest serving western journalist covering Iraq. His assignments have included Afghanistan, Iraq, China, the USSR, Africa and Bosnia. More...

April 22, 2009 - 7:30pm - Mitchell Hall - Tom Segev - Israel

TOM SEGEV is a historian and a weekly columnist for Ha'aretz, Israel's leading newspaper. He is author of six works on the history of Israel, including: 1949: The First Israelis, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. He was born and lives in Jerusalem. More...

February 25, 2009 - 7:30pm - Mitchell Hall - Mona Eltahawy - Egypt

MONA ELTAHAWY is an award-winning internationally syndicated columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. Before moving to the U.S. in 2000, she reported in the Middle East from Cairo and Jerusalem for Reuters, for The (London) Guardian and for U.S. News and World Report. More...

March 11, 2009 - 7:30pm - Mitchell Hall - Rami Khouri - Lebanon

RAMI G. KHOURI is a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. He directs the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut and editor-at-large of Beirut’s Daily Star newspaper. He is an internationally syndicated political columnist and author. More...

May 20, 2009 - 7:30pm - Mitchell Hall - Jon Alterman - United States

JON B. ALTERMAN has served on the Policy Planning staff of the U.S. Department of State, and as a special adviser to the Iraq Study Group (Baker-Hamilton Commission). Currently, he directs the Middle East program of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a Washington think-tank. He previously served as a foreign policy aide to former Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY). He is the author or coauthor of four books on the Middle East. More...

March 25, 2009 - 7:30pm - Mitchell Hall - Dana Shell Smith - United States

DANA SHELL SMITH is a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, fluent in Arabic, who has spent much of her career dealing with both Near Eastern and East Asian affairs. She has represented the United States in Tel Aviv, Cairo, Amman and Taipei. She speaks Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and Spanish. More...

May 6, 2009 - 7:30pm - Mitchell Hall

DANIEL KUTNER is Israel’s Consul General in Philadelphia. He has been a member of Israel’s Foreign Ministry since 1983, and has served in Bolivia, Venezuela and New York. He has directed intelligence and economic research at the Foreign Ministry in Palestinian and Jordanian affairs, Egypt and North Africa affairs, and Syrian and Lebanese affairs. More...