On Lebanon: Peter Beinart in Conversation with Rami Khouri

Friday, September 27th at 11am ET, virtually:

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have entered their deadliest phase over the past week. Last Tuesday, an Israeli operation blew up thousands of pagers across Lebanon, injuring over 3,000. And on Monday, Israel began airstrikes that have already killed over 500 people in Lebanon—a level of destruction not seen since the end of that country’s civil war. As Israel’s bombings continue and Hezbollah launches rockets into Israel, a full-blown regional conflagration appears to have begun.

To learn more about these developments, join Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart in conversation with Rami Khouri, who is the director of global engagement at the American University of Beirut, a fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, DC, a contributor to Al Jazeera, and the former editor of Beirut’s newspaper Daily Star. Beinart and Khouri will talk about the history and politics of Lebanon, Israel’s attacks on the country, and the escalating regional war.

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Rami George Khouri is the director of global engagement at the American University of Beirut (AUB), an internationally-published political columnist and author, a professor of journalism and journalist-in-residence at AUB, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was the first director of, and is now a senior fellow at, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB. He was awarded the Pax Christi International Peace Prize for 2006.

Peter Beinart teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, an MSNBC political commentator, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

PS. Be sure to join us for another event tomorrow, September 26th, at 5pm ET: Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing. Rebecca Vilkomerson, Rabbi Alissa Wise, Omar Barghouti, Nyle Fort and Stefanie Fox will discuss the new book Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing. The authors and guests will discuss what the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how left-wing organizations can grow—in numbers and power—while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part. This is virtual and open to everyone. Register today.