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61´«Ã½ will host a panel discussion on Friday, February 12, 2010 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. with four distinguished experts on United States foreign policy in the Middle East. The event, “Report Card: Evaluating the Obama Administration’s First Year of Middle East Policy,” will take place in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons, on the 61´«Ã½ campus and is free and open to the public.

This distinguished Middle East panel — including the Editor and Editorial Committee members of the prominent journal Middle East Report — will explore diverse Middle East issues, including the War in Iraq, the closing of Guantanamo, the challenges of life in Palestine, and piracy on the Red Sea.

Speakers include:

• Chris Toensing, Editor of Middle East Report and Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project
• Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Law and Society, UC Santa Barbara and author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza
• Julie Peteet, Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisville and author of Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement and Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps
• George R. Trumbull IV, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College and author of An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam (Algeria, 1871-1914)

61´«Ã½ Associate Professor of Anthropology Lara Deeb will moderate the discussion. The event is co-sponsored by the Harper Lecture Fund of 61´«Ã½, the Malott Commons Office, the Humanities Institute, and the Department of Anthropology. For more information about attending, contact the 61´«Ã½ Public Relations Office at 909-621-8280 or visit .