Webinar Series

Welcome to the ASMEA Webinar Series. Throughout the year we will host discussions with seasoned scholars and practitioners on a variety of topics affecting the Middle East and Africa. These webinars are free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Attendees who require a "Certificate of Attendance" can contact Emily Lucas at [email protected] after the event. View past webinars here.


Ilan Troen on Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land?

Join ASMEA and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) for this webinar led by Ilan Troen on Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land? on May 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm (ET).

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Ilan Troen is emeritus of both the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies (Brandeis, 2017), and the Lopin Chair of Modern History (Ben-Gurion University, 2007). He has served as founding director of the Israel Studies centers at both institutions and dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University.  He is past president of the Association for Israel Studies and received in 2023 its "Lifetime Achievement Award."

Please find his CNN opinion piece "My grandmother was killed in a pogrom. Then my daughter was, too" here.