MEDIA ADVISORY

New York University will host a symposium, “The Price of Peace: Palestinian Property in Israel and the Peace Process,” on Thursday, January 29, 4-8 p.m. at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center (50 Washington Square South [enter at 255 Sullivan Street]). Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street).

Panelists include the following: Marwan Jilani; Michael Fischbach, a professor of history at Randolph-Macon College and author of Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; Michael Marrus, an emeritus professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto and author of The Holocaust in History; Roby Nathanson, director general of the Macro Center for Political Economics; Hagar Tzameret-Kertcher, research director at the Macro Center for Political Economics; and Ronald Zweig, director of NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies, whose published works include Britain and Palestine During the Second World War.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. RSVP to fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu or 212.998.8981. Reporters interested in attending the event should contact James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.

The event is co-sponsored by NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies as well as Israel’s Macro Center for Political Economics.

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