| Description: |  In addition to meeting with many classes and with groups of students and faculty, she will give a public lecture entitled "Seeds of Peace: Turning Enemies into Friends" on Tuesday, March 11th, during Common Hour, in Brooklyn and on Thursday, March 13th, also during Common Hour, in Patchogue on the Long Island Campus.
At the latter lecture, Janet Wallach will be presented with St. Joseph's Esse, Non Videri Award for her myriad contributions to peace-making initiatives around the world.
Janet Wallach has written extensively about the Middle East. Her book DESERT QUEEN is a biography of Gertrude Bell, the British official most responsible for the creation of Iraq after World War I. In addition, Ms. Wallach has written SERAGLIO, a historical novel about Topkapi Palace and the Ottoman Empire, and several non-fiction books, including STILL SMALL VOICES, which recounts the stories of Arabs and Israelis during the first intifada, ARAFAT: IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER, and THE NEW PALESTINIANS.
Ms. Wallach has interviewed heads of state and leading Middle East personalities for The Washington Post Magazine and other periodicals. She is President Emerita and a co-founder of Seeds of Peace, a preeminent conflict resolution program that brings together teenagers from areas of conflict and violence particularly the Middle East and also works with youths from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Balkans and divided Cyprus.
The organization has a year-round program that includes a summer camp in Maine as well as workshops, seminars, and conferences in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and the U.S.
Topics: The Middle East; Iraqs past, present and future; changing relationships in the Middle East; looking at history what we should have known about Iraq; the Israeli/Palestinian conflict the heart of the matter; conflict resolution (teaching enemies to talk and listen). |
