HOW NARRATIVES AND POETICS FRAMED THE GAZA WAR YET COULD POINT TO A BETTER FUTURE

Dr. Hussein Ibish is a weekly columnist for The National (UAE), a contributor to The Atlantic, a former columnist for Bloomberg, and regular contributor to many other U.S. and Middle Eastern publications. He is the author of numerous books and chapters on the Israeli-Palestinian conElict, international relations and US foreign policy in the Middle East, and hate crimes and discrimination against Arab and Muslim Americans. Ibish previously served as a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, executive director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership, and communications director for the American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This event is generously funded by the Departments of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, English, and Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Five College Faculty Seminar in Middle East Studies. For more information, please contact klachman@umass.edu