Sunday, May 4, 2014, 8:00 pm Hollis Hills Jewish Center
Hiram and Berdie Kleinstein Memorial Lecture
Sunday, May 4, 2014, 8:00 pm Hollis Hills Jewish Center Untangling the Web in the Middle East
All too often the problems of the Middle East are considered from too narrow a viewpoint. Rarely if ever does one encounter a discussion that encompasses the extraordinary array of complications that interweave each other to yield an answer to the question as to why this is such a difficult region of the world. The Middle East is a tangled web. The threads that run one way are religion, ethnicity, politics, nationality and economics. Those that run counter to these are conflicting and confusing definitions, aspirations and interferences. This lecture will unravel that tangled web. The goal of this talk is not to presume to propose a given solution, but to explore and explain the problem as a starting point for thinking about solutions—and for understanding why they are so difficult to come by. Dr. Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, political history, art history theology and philosophy. He is also the author of over 240 books, articles, exhibition catalogues, and essays on a range of topics. Recent books include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Jewish, Christian and Muslim Mysticism: Searching for Oneness; and Untangling the Web: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always has Been. Recent lectures on the Middle East have taken him from Turkey to California and op eds on “The Arab Spring” and “The Two-State Solution” have appeared in a number of media.
For information, contact the center office 718-776-3500. Hollis Hills Jewish Center 210-10 Union Turnpike
Hollis Hills, NY
Sunday, May 4, 2014, 8:00 pm Hollis Hills Jewish Center Untangling the Web in the Middle East
All too often the problems of the Middle East are considered from too narrow a viewpoint. Rarely if ever does one encounter a discussion that encompasses the extraordinary array of complications that interweave each other to yield an answer to the question as to why this is such a difficult region of the world. The Middle East is a tangled web. The threads that run one way are religion, ethnicity, politics, nationality and economics. Those that run counter to these are conflicting and confusing definitions, aspirations and interferences. This lecture will unravel that tangled web. The goal of this talk is not to presume to propose a given solution, but to explore and explain the problem as a starting point for thinking about solutions—and for understanding why they are so difficult to come by. Dr. Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, political history, art history theology and philosophy. He is also the author of over 240 books, articles, exhibition catalogues, and essays on a range of topics. Recent books include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Jewish, Christian and Muslim Mysticism: Searching for Oneness; and Untangling the Web: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always has Been. Recent lectures on the Middle East have taken him from Turkey to California and op eds on “The Arab Spring” and “The Two-State Solution” have appeared in a number of media.
For information, contact the center office 718-776-3500. Hollis Hills Jewish Center 210-10 Union Turnpike
Hollis Hills, NY
