ACCENT Speakers Bureau and the Jewish Student Union will host A Conversation with Ambassador Michael Oren and Italian-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal Sept. 16.
Oren and Jebreal will discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Oren served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He currently holds the Abba Eban Chair in International Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and is Ambassador-in-Residence at the Atlantic Council.
Born in the United States, Oren moved to Israel and enlisted as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), seeing action in the Lebanon War. As an officer, he served as a liaison to the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the Gulf War and as an IDF Spokesman during the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead.
Jebreal, born in Haifa, and raised in East Jerusalem, is an award-winning journalist, author, and foreign policy analyst. She became the first foreign anchorwoman in the history of Italian television. She has received numerous accolades, including the highest award in journalism, the International Ischia Award. She has interviewed Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, former PM Massimo D'Alema and Bill Gates.
Jebreal covered the second Iraqi war, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, she hosted a news show for Egyptian television in 2009, and in 2011 she was in Syria to cover the civil war for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. She has appeared frequently on CNN, FOX News and Charlie Rose and was a foreign policy analyst for MSNBC. She has written several books, including the widely acclaimed autobiographical novel “Miral” (2003), which was published in 15 languages and was later made into a feature film of the same title.
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