The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies
David Shipler
"Twilight War, Twilight Peace: Palestinians and Israelis Struggle over Common
Ground"
8:00 P.M. / Tuesday, February 13 / FREE Ucen Corwin Pavilion
David Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Jerusalem
Bureau Chief of “The New York Times,” will discuss "Twilight War, Twilight
Peace: Palestinians and Israelis Struggle over Common Ground" at 8:00 P.M.
on Tuesday, February 13 in the Corwin Pavilion.
It has been nearly eight years since Israel and the PLO, representing Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms, formally looked each other in the eye and agreed to share the contested land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. But the journey between the principle and the implementation has proved difficult and treacherous. The closer the parties have moved toward a solution, the more they have circled back to the hard, fundamental divide that defined the conflict before the process of peace.
David Shipler, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1964, served as a “New York Times” correspondent in Saigon, covering South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand from 1973-75. He was Moscow Bureau Chief from 1977-79. From 1979-84, he served as Bureau Chief of “The New York Times” in Jerusalem. He also served as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in the Washington Bureau of “The New York Times” until 1988. Shipler was co-recipient (with Thomas Friedman) of the 1983 George Polk Award for coverage of the Lebanon War.
Shipler is the author of “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land,” which explores the mutual perceptions and relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the West Bank. The book won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Shipler was also executive producer, writer and narrator of a two-hour PBS documentary on Arab and Jew, which won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism.
Among Shipler's other works is the best-seller “Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams,” published in 1983, updated in 1989. Widely acclaimed by critics, it won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1983 as the best book that year on foreign affairs.
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies are cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, Department of Religious Studies, Hillel, and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
