And lecturer which is beyond me, but also to be here as the speaker. My father meant a lot to me obviously as most parents to, but he was important to me as a father as well as he was to everyone else. Thank you very much for inviting me here. I have just published his book, looking for palestine. The subtitle is also important because it is called growing and confused in an arab american family. And to give you an idea how my own identity as the palestinian american has been, all i form did on my own which has been very difficult. My mother is from lebanon, from a Christian Family but they are actually quaker. That is the first problem. My dad was as many of you know, a palestinian born with american citizenship to british schools end he wrote about his own identity issues and left palestine at a young age. And he came to the United States at the age of 14 or 15 and he was also a christian, and i was born and baptized there. And i was sent to a private school for girls. And what went
In the comparison of it with the stock market which is hanging around in the back of my head, and i havent read it yet but the idea of lots of discrete entities doing things, creating something larger with or without people, with or without that intention of creating something larger. Is this already being done, to apply this to policy say you know okay we want to do this. We are doing it this way but its not working or all of these actions we are taking are somehow creating this other thing that we havent even thought about. I feel like there could he and education, sort of guide to how we would put Recruitment Strategies or how to use them as a tool in other fields . I think youre absolutely right in that is why had done this thing up diving. Ive been involved with politics since i was 16 and i go juan Iranian Television and they go on Saudi Television discussing world affairs. I also do American Television on a Radio Station talking about world affairs. Why . These things are all re
There is a different problem. And then my dad as many of you know was palestinian but born with american citizenship. Went to british schools and wrote a lot about his own identity issues. He left palestine at a very young age. He was raised in jerusalem and in cairo and came here at the age of 14 or 15 to the united states. He was also christian anglican episcopalian and i was born and baptized as an episcopalian. They there again is another strange state. Then i was raised in new york city and attended a private school for girls on the Upper East Side because my parents of course wanted me to have a wonderful and good education and its a very good School However when i went to school but i was episcopalian. I sort of fit and that i didnt and then my father meanwhile was in the other room writing rants of representation of the media and arts and literature. I was as i say in the book watching i dream of jeannie and trying to figure out why it didnt have blond hairs magic powers and a
Experiences in israel where shes lived off and on since 2006. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good afternoon, welcome. Im the director here at the hudson institute, a son sore on islam, democracy, and the future of the islam world which publishing a journal on islamism called Current Trends in islamic ideology, which i coedit with my colleagues ambassador haqqani and eric brown. Its my pleasure to host todays event. Its subject is a wonderful new book by my guest, lelya gilbert, and here it is. Its title is saturday people, sunday people israel through the eyes of a christian so jowrner, and ms. Gilbert is here to discuss her book with us. Before introducing and turning to the book itself, let me say a few words by way of introduction about herself. She has had a very impressive and varied career, much of it concerned with the arts including music. She has been a song writer and worked extensively with musical groups including an african childrens chorus based in uganda and based