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The Israel Project Cordially Invites Eye on Annapolis Sessions include:
Schedule and speakers include:
Date: Thursday, Nov. 8 , 2007 Please RSVP by Nov. 6 Questions? Email leahs@theisraelproject.org or call 054-807-9041 About the speakers: Maen Areikat , Director-General, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) Areikat entered the PLO's NAD in 1998 when current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) then served as director. He oversees all NAD operations, which include supervising the Negotiations Support Unit (NSU) that provides legal, political, communication and technical support to Palestinian negotiating teams and to Palestinian leaders engaged in dialogue with Israel. Prior to his service at NAD, Mr. Areikat spent six years at Orient House, the headquarters of the PLO in Jerusalem where he served spokesperson for the late Mr. Faisal Husseini, former PLO Executive Committee member in charge of Jerusalem Affairs. Mr. Areikat participated in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations at Taba (Egypt) in 1996, Jerusalem in 1997, Beit Hanoun/Erez in Gaza in 1999 and was an official member of the Palestinian delegation at the Wye River negotiations in 1998. Mr. Areikat holds respectively degrees of B.S. in Finance and MBA in Management from Arizona State University and Western International University in Arizona. Aluf Benn , Editorial Staff Member and Political Correspondent, Haaretz Newspaper Benn has been a member of the Ha'aretz editorial staff since 1989. He has worked in a number of different roles at Ha'artez such as night editor, investigative reporter, chief of the editorial staff and as security correspondent. Benn's journalism career has spanned the tenure of six Israeli Prime Ministers (from Rabin to Olmert), reporting on peace negotiations since the 1993 Olso Accords until the present day. He also covers Palestinian politics and Syria. Ahmad Budeiri , Reporter, BBC Arabic Service Budeiri covers Israel and the West Bank for BBC 's Arabic Radio Service and is currently a Foreign Press Association board member. In recent years Budeiri has reported on both Israeli and Palestinian political processes, preceding the current round of negotiations. He previously worked as a freelance producer and as an executive director of documentary films. Budeiri graduated from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Birzeit University in the West Bank. Dr. Nabil Kukali, Founder and President, Palestinian Center for Public Opinion Dr. Kukali established the PCPO in 1994. He conducts public opinion polls, surveys and holds focus groups throughout the West Bank and Gaza that are published worldwide and distributed to decision makers and interest groups. In recent weeks, Kukali has been polling Palestinian attitudes towards the Annapolis summit. Dr. Kukali holds a Ph.D. in Business from Wyoming University (1984) and is an Associate Professor of Business Management in the School of Finance and Management at Hebron University, teaching statistics and applied mathematics. Gilad Sher served as Chief of Staff and Policy Coordinator under former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak. From 1999-2001 as Co-Chief Negotiator, he headed talks at the Camp David Summit (2000) and Taba, Egypt (2001). Sher was a delegation to the Oslo Interim Accords under the late-PM Yitzchak Rabin. In 2002 he co-authored and published with the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute "Israeli Policy Initiative for Unilateral Disengagement" and in 2003 "Legal Aspects of Settlement Evacuation" for Harvard Law School. His book The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999-2001: Within Reach was published by Routledge in 2006. He is a board member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). Sher is currently a senior partner at Aaronsohn, Sher, Aboulafia, Ammoday & Co. Law Offices, and is a visiting lecturer in the Wharton School for Business Management at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mina Tzemach, Director, Dachaf Public Opinion Research Institute Dr. Tzemach is a world-renowned pollster and has served as director of Dachaf since 1980. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University and has published books on polling and comparative statistical research. Her polls are consistently referenced in the Hebrew - language press, by the Israeli government and by international media. Dr. Tzemach predicted the historic change of government in Israel's 1977 general elections and is currently polling Israeli opinions on Annapolis. She teaches statistics at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.
Board of Advisors: Senator Evan Bayh (IN), Senator Saxby Chambliss (GA), Senator Norm Coleman (MN), Senator Ben Nelson (NE), Senator Arlen Specter (PA), Senator Ron Wyden (OR), Congressman Rob Andrews (NJ), Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (NV), Congressman Tom Davis (VA), Congressman Eliot Engel (NY), Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ), Congressman Jon Porter (NV), Congressman Jim Saxton (NJ), Congressman Brad Sherman (CA), Congressman Joe Wilson (SC), Actor and Director Ron Silver |
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