Information on the Mikhail Lecture : Guest speaker, Thomas Philip Abowd, PhD
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Laila Waggoner mikhaillecture@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Friends,

We are delighted to announce the 15th Annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture will be given by Toledo

native, Thomas Abowd, from Tufts University The title of Dr Abowd’s lecture is “Jerusalem and the Prospects for Peace

in Palestine/Israel ”

We sincerely hope you will be able to join us at 3:30 p m on Sunday, October 11, 2015 at the Driscoll Center Auditorium at

The University of Toledo for what we know will be another outstanding event in this lecture series

Thomas Abowd teaches in the Departments of Anthropology, American Studies, and the Colonialism Program He has

been involved in activist and scholarly projects related to the Middle East for the last two decades, including the first

U S student initiative to build a sister-university relationship between an American school and a Palestinian one in 1990

He completed his Ph D in Cultural Anthropology at Columbia University in 2003 and has done extensive research in

Palestine and Israeli on the politics of urban space, housing policy, racial politics, and land law in contemporary

Jerusalem His newly released book is entitled Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and  http://www amazon com/Colonial-Jerusalem-Construction-Difference-Contemporary/dp/0815633483

http://www amazon com/Colonial-Jerusalem-Construction-Difference-Contemporary/dp/0815633483 Difference http://www amazon com/Colonial-Jerusalem-Construction-Difference-Contemporary/dp/0815633483, Syracuse University Press (2014) Among his other publications is an article on the gendered politics of

residential space in Jerusalem entitled, “National Boundaries, Colonized Spaces ”

As you may know, the Mikhail Endowment Fund was originally established through a donation from the Mikhail family to

honor the work and contributions of Maryse Mikhail and her involvement in educational, philanthropic and interfaith

organizations The main purpose of the fund is to support an annual lecture dealing with Arab culture, history, politics,

economics, and other aspects of life in the Middle East including issues of peace and justice More information about the

Lecture Series is available at mikhaillecture wordpress com http://mikhaillecture wordpress com/

Whether or not you are able to join us, we hope you will consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the fund to

help ensure the continuation of the lecture series for years to come Any amount is welcome, and checks should be

made payable to the UT Foundation with a notation of the Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Endowment Fund (#1301-005)

Gifts may be sent to The University of Toledo Foundation, P O Box 586, Toledo, OH, 43607-0586 Secure online gifts

may be made at give2UT utoledo edu http://give2ut utoledo edu/ Please be sure to designate Fund #1301-005

The Lecture Committee would appreciate having your e-mail address, and the addresses of friends who may be

interested in receiving notices of future lectures, sent to mikhaillecture@gmail com mikhaillecture@PROTECTED

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Laila Waggoner mikhaillecture@gmail.com> wrote: The 15th annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture will be held on Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 3:30 p m at the University of Toledo's Driscoll Center, featuring Toledo native, Dr Thomas P Abowd

More details to come soon - we hope to see you there!