The Prospects for Peace and the
Two-State Solution

Bassem Eid

Thursday, June 21, 2018 | 7:30 pm

United Hebrew Congregation
13788 Conway Road, 63141

Bassem Eid is a Jerusalem-based political analyst, human rights pioneer and expert commentator in Arab and Palestinian affairs. Eid was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in East Jerusalem, whose place of residence became the United Nations Refugee Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camp of Shuafat. He spent the first 33 years of his life in Shuafat. He rose to prominence during the first Intifada, the Palestinian uprising, and was a senior field researcher for B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. In 1996, he founded the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. In 2016, Eid assumed the role of Chairman of the Center for Near East Policy Research. He is a frequent commentator on Israeli radio and TV. Learn more at BassemEid.com.

This event is free and open to the public. Dessert reception to follow. Donations are welcome. For security reasons, please do not bring backpacks or briefcases to the event.

Sponsored by St. Louis Friends of Israel, United Hebrew Congregation and the Center for Jewish Learning.

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is generously funded by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.

Sh’ma: Listen! Advisory Committee Chair
Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman

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Rabbi Tracy Nathan, Senior Educator, Center for Jewish Learning
Cyndee Levy, Director, Center for Jewish Learning

Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Gerald P. Greiman, Board Chair
Andrew Rehfeld, President & CEO