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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/conflict-in-the-middle-east-human-e
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SUMMARY:Conflict in the Middle East: Human Experiences of a Regional War
DESCRIPTION:PHILADELPHIA\, PA\nSponsored by\nPerry World House\n\n\n&nbsp\;
 \n\nBeyond discussions of policy and strategy\, this roundtable discussion
  shifts discussion of the current conflict in the Middle East to its impac
 t on local communities there. How do the people most directly affected by 
 the conflict understand these events? What is the cost\, qualitatively as 
 much as quantitatively\,  of this conflict to people in the region? Join 
 three regional experts in a wide-ranging conversation about war and its im
 pact on the people of the Middle East.\n\nBios\n\nFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet\,
  is an American-Iranian historian of the Middle East. She currently serve
 s as Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsyl
 vania. A former Director of the Middle East Center\, her research focuses 
 on boundary disputes\, borderland histories\, gender\, and identity politi
 cs in the Middle East.\n\nSamer Abboud is Associate Professor of Global I
 nterdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University and the author of Syria
  (Polity\, 2018)\, a book that explores the outbreak and trajectory of th
 e Syrian uprising. His research is broadly interested in warfare in Syria 
 and the emergence of an illiberal post-conflict order in the country.\n\nS
 hay Hazkani is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the U
 niversity of Maryland\, College Park. He specializes in the social and cul
 tural history of Palestine/Israel. His first book\, Dear Palestine: A Soc
 ial History of the 1948 War (Stanford University Press\, 2021)\, received
  the Korenblat and Azrieli-Concordia book awards and was longlisted for th
 e Cundill History Prize. Before his academic career\, he worked as a journ
 alist in Israel\, covering the occupied Palestinian territories and the Is
 raeli military. He is currently the Penn Global Middle East Distinguished 
 Visiting Scholar.\n\nhttps://mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/2026/03/31/conflict-
 middle-east-human-experiences-regional-war\n\n
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