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Joshua Teitelbaum spent the spring of 2008 as Rosenbloom Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, an appointment he held jointly with Stanford’s Hoover Institution, where he was W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow. While at Stanford he taught two courses on Israel and the modern Middle East in the International Relations Program. In October 2007 he spoke on modern Saudi Arabia at the faculty seminar of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya’s Lauder School of Government, and that same month he participated in a closed briefing of the Institute of National Security Studies on Saudi Arabia, as well as speaking at the annual Yitzhak Rabin memorial held at the Meitarim School, Ra’anana. For much of the fall he was a guest lecturer at Jerusalem’s Midreshet Lindenbaum, where he taught a course on intellectual trend on US campuses to pre-collegiate American students. In January 2008 he discussed the Shiites of Saudi Arabia at a special session of the Herzliya Conference. In May he lectured on political liberalization in the Persian Gulf at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. He also spoke widely on the modern Middle East at venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, including two lectures at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center’s Israel Independence Day celebration. In June, Teitelbaum spoke twice on Saudi Arabia to AIPAC’s Annual Policy Conference in Washington, DC. With Teitelbaum’s mediation, Georgetown University Library’s Special Collections located and acquired the papers of Dr. George Rentz, former head of research for Aramco, where they joined other papers related to Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. In July, Teitelbaum conducted interviews in his capacity as the Israeli adviser to the Olive Tree Programme, which supports promising Israeli and Palestinians students studying at the City University of London. In June, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs published his study, What Iranian Leaders Really Say about Israel: A Refutation of the Campaign to Excuse Ahmadinejad’s Incitement to Genocide. email: teitelba@post.tau.ac.il "TAKING
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