AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST GERSHOM GORENBERG TO DELIVER TALK

Author and journalist Gershom Gorenberg, a National Jewish Book Award winner who writes regularly for The New Republic and has published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones and numerous other American and Israeli publications, will present a lecture at Bryn Mawr on Monday, March 27. The talk, titled "The Accidental Empire: Israel's Settlement Dilemma," will take place at 4:15 p.m. in Thomas 224. It is free and open to the public.

Gorenberg is a senior editor and columnist for The Jerusalem Report. He was one of the founding editors of the award-winning biweekly magazine, which covers Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world for an international audience. He has co-authored Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. A key topic in his work has been the role of messianic or millennial thinking in Israeli politics and religion.

His talk at Bryn Mawr will take its starting point from his new book, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977. The Washington Post cites Accidental Empire as "a meticulously researched, dispassionate and highly readable history of how Israel slipped into the settlement of occupied lands" and "an invaluable guide to one of the Middle East's most complex issues that will puncture illusions on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Gorenberg's visit is sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and the Middle East Studies Initiative.

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