To the Holy Land and Back: Interfaith Perspectives on the Crisis in Israel and Palestine

Facilitated by: Bill Zangeneh-Lester, Humanities and Religious Studies
Flex credit: 1.5 Hours


In 2019, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) sent its first interfaith coalition of faculty and students to Israel and Palestine to introduce them to the complexities of the situations there. Drawing from this experience and research expertise on the region, this panel discussion will challenge the ways the crisis in Israel and Palestine is being framed in binaries and false dichotomies—Jews versus Arabs, Palestinians versus Israelis, left versus right—it's more complicated, with more stories than just two. This talk will be hosted and moderated by Dr. Bill Zangeneh-Lester and features Dr. Amir Hussain, who teaches about Islam at LMU and is the outgoing President of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and Dr. David N. Myers, a Distinguished Professor who holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA.

This webinar will be recorded. If you can't attend, you can access the recording when you have more time. If you can attend, there will be a Q&A session at the end of the discussion. Audience members can submit their questions.

This event meets ARC Strategic Goals 1 and 3; ARC’s Professional Development Competencies: Equity-Minded Service, Specialized Expertise; and State PD Guidelines A and B. The event is open to both LRCCD employees and students.