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Asher Susser spent the 2007-2008 academic year on sabbatical as Senior Fellow of the Myra and Robert Kraft Chair in Arab Politics at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University. In mid- October 2007 he lectured in Montreal at Concordia University where he spoke on “The Palestinians and the ‘New’ Middle East,” and at McGill University where he discussed “Secular Nationalism in the Middle East: Is It on the Way Out?”. Later that month Susser took part in a Crown Center conference on “The Middle East Today: New Perspectives on a Changing Landscape,” where he spoke on the regional ramifications of the Iraq war. He also participated in a conference at Brandeis University in December, held jointly by The Crown and Schusterman Centers, on “One Land for Two Peoples, where he spoke on “Partition and the Jewish-Arab Dimension inside Israel.” Later that month he addressed the World Affairs Council of Northern California in San Francisco on the Middle East peace process, and Stanford University’s Forum on Contemorary Europe on “The Middle East Peace Process: The Roles of the US and Europe.” In February 2008 Susser briefed members of the House of Commons in London on the Middle East, and in March he gave a talk at the Crown Center's Brown Bag Forum on the decline of secular nationalism in the Middle East. In April he spoke at the Middle East Seminar of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University on “Israel as the State of the Jewish People and its Arab Minority.” He took part in a May conference on “Israel at Sixty” at the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University where he delivered a lecture on “Israel and the Middle East.” Towards the end of the month he attended a conference on “Islamism, the State, and the Quest for Community,” convened by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Lund University in Sweden, where he spoke on “Religion, Community and the State: The Future is in the Past.” Later in May, Susser lectured in Oslo at the Norwegian Defense Command and Staff College on “The Middle East and the Changing Geopolitical Environment,” at the University of Oslo in the Department of Political Science on “Secular Nationalism in the Middle East: On the Way Out?,” and at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) on “Israel, the Palestinians and the ‘New’ Middle East.” He also briefed the Middle East Section of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and the Foreign Relations Committee of the Norwegian Parliament. In early June, Susser spoke on “The Holocaust, the Mufti, and the Jewish Past: Competing Narratives and Arab-Israel Peacemaking,” at the University of Maine, Augusta. He published a paper on “Jordan: Preserving Domestic Order in a Setting of Regional Turmoil,” in the Crown Center's Middle East Brief series and wrote a review of Avi Shlaim’s Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace and Joseph Nevo’s King Hussein and the Evolution of Jordan's Perception of a Political Settlement with Israel for the September 2008 issue of Middle Eastern Studies. email: susser@post.tau.ac.il
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Arabs and Palestine: Facing Crucial Decisions
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