6pm Tuesday
22 August 2006
Engineering Lecture Theatre 1
(Fairway Entrance 3, UWA)

The latest conflict in Lebanon raises many questions about the consequences of the long-running Middle East
confrontation. Ross Burns examined the likely implications for the region in the post-Iraq era and asked “How long can
we afford to ignore the central issues of the Middle East equation?”

Ross Burns recently retired after 37 years in the Australian Foreign Service. As well as having headed the Middle East,
Africa and South Asia Branch, he is a former Ambassador to Lebanon and Syria in the 1980s, South Africa & Greece in
the 1990s and to Israel until 2003. He has also written and lectured on the history and archaeology of the area,
especially Syria.

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