Please join MEF for a webinar with Ofra Bengio today at 1pm EST!
The Middle East Forum cordially invites you to a webinar:
Kurdistan's Moment in the Middle East
with Ofra Bengio
Kurds, often said to be the world’s largest people without a state, are in an acute state of flux in Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Ofra Bengio lays out the history and geography, the current status of Kurds in each country, and considers the prospects of an emerging Kurdistan.
Monday, January 18, 2021 1:00-1:15p.m. EST
Online:
Click here to join just before 1pm EST or Webinar ID: 860 5608 0671 Passcode: 844727 By Phone: US: +1 6465588656,,86056080671#,,844727#,,#
Ofra Bengio, a professor at Tel Aviv University and a lecturer at Shalem College, heads the Dayan Center’s Kurdish studies program. She has translated many literary works from Arabic and Turkish into Hebrew. Ms Bengio received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D from Tel Aviv University. She is the author of four books on the Kurds and Kurdistan the latest of which is Kurdistan’s Moment in the Middle East (Dayan Center, 2018)
The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual, operational, and philanthropic means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government.
