Description
Join us for a compelling conversation with Husam Zomlot, the Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK since 2018, in conversation with Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project.
Together, these experts bring a wealth of experience in global diplomacy and first-hand understanding of the complexities of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and their insights will offer unique perspectives on the conflict as they delve into the historic and contemporary challenges in the search for peace, freedom and rights for all.
Join them as they reflect on this year marking the 75th anniversary of both the creation of the State of Israel and the Nakba catastrophe of the mass displacement of Palestinians. Does the recent intensification of the conflict suggest ongoing deterioration or does the extent of the crisis begin to offer a way out and a much-needed hint of hope for the future.
The speakers will explore how framings and narratives around the conflict and public opinion is shifting, not always in unilinear ways, and ask what responsibilities and what role the UK and the international community should be playing.
Don’t miss a multifaceted and nuanced conversation and the search for hope in an area where the sun setting on the British Empire left behind a legacy of conflict which rages to this day.
About the Speakers
Husam Zomlot
Ambassador Dr Husam S. Zomlot is the Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom. Prior to his appointment to the UK, Dr Zomlot served as Ambassador to the United States (Head of the PLO General Delegation to the United States), and Strategic Affairs Advisor to the Palestinian President. Dr Zomlot’s previous official roles include serving as Ambassador at large for the Palestinian Presidency and Director of Fatah Foreign Relations Commission.
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), focusing on de-escalation and conflict resolution in the Middle East with an emphasis on Palestine-Israel. From 2012 to 2016, Levy was Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that he was a senior Fellow and Director of the New America Foundation’s Middle East Taskforce in Washington DC and a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation in New York. Levy has also worked as a senior government advisor and attended the Israel/Palestine peace talks at Taba and Oslo B. Levy is a Council Member of ECFR, co-founder of J Street, founder of the newly formed Diaspora Alliance (combatting antisemitism and its conflation) and serves on the board of the European Middle East Project. He is a former Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New York.
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