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Please join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program, the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, and author of Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era 1908-1914, Claiming the Homeland Louis A. Fishman, Brooklyn College, for a talk titled "Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in the post Oct 7th Reality: A historical look toward the Future" on Wednesday, November 8 from 12:30 PM - 2:00PM in Harris Hall, Room 108.

Lunch will be served beginning at 12:00 PM!

Louis Fishman is an associate professor in the history department at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author of the book Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland (Edinburgh University Press, January 2020). His academic work focuses on late Ottoman Palestine, the Jews of the Ottoman Empire, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also regularly contributes to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, where he writes about Turkish and Israeli politics while providing political commentary to other international media and policy outlets. He divides his time between New York, Istanbul, and Tel Aviv.