Presented by The IHC Jewish Studies Research Focus Group and the Center for Middle East Studies Tuesday, 26 November / 10:00 A.M. / Free McCune Conference Room 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Emmanuel Sivan is Professor of Islamic History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has authored many books on contemporary Islam. His publications include Radical Islam, The 1948 Generation, and Mythes Politiques Arabes. In the late 1980s he was among the first scholars to begin to look at radical forms of Islamic movements that were generated from the Iranian revolution. He has also written more than 150 articles and chapters, and one of his areas of expertise is Islamic conceptions of the sanctity of Jerusalem. Sivan is a regular commentator on Islamic movements for Israeli television and writes prolifically for the Israeli press. This event is sponsored by The IHC Jewish Studies Research Focus Group and the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It is cosponsored by the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles. <<Back