Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi 

Prospects for a Palestinian state

Date: 9th June 2009
Time: 6:00pm for 6:30pm start
Venue: Woolnough Lecture Theatre1.07, Geography & Geology Building, UWA

Presents political scientist Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi, executive director of Brussels' Transatlantic Institute, will consider the prospects for establishing a Palestinian state in light of the current political environment in the Middle East. He will consider the political and strategic situation in Israel and the surrounding region.

Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi is the executive director of the Transatlantic Institute. A political scientist by training, he came to Brussels in 2006 after having previously taught Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bologna.

He is a frequent commentator on Israeli domestic politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Europe’s Middle East policy. His columns have appeared on Newsday, Commentary, the National Review Online, The Middle East Quarterly, the Jewish Chronicle, The Guardian, The Daily Mirror; European publications such as Die Welt, Il Corriere del Ticino, L’Unità, il Foglio and Libero. He writes regularly for Italian newspapers such as Il Riformista, Liberal, Il Foglio, and Rome’s Jewish Monthly, Shalom. He has a column in the British monthly, Standpoint Magazine and blogs on Contentions, the Blog of Commentary Magazine.

This lecture is a free public lecture co- organised by the Centre for Muslim States and Societies (CMSS) and the Australia/ Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC).

Refreshments will be available. Please RSVP to Zarlasht Sarwari on 6488 4554 by 8 June 2009 for catering purposes.

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