171 HOLOCAUST DENIAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOCUS OF MTSU LECTURE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 31, 2007
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Dr. Allen Hibbard, 615-494-8809

HOLOCAUST DENIAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOCUS OF MTSU LECTURE
Guest Speaker to Address Arab Collaboration with, Opposition to Murders of Jews

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, will speak at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Tennessee Room of the James Union Building at MTSU.
Satloff’s lecture is titled “Countering Holocaust Denial in the Middle East: A New Approach.” This event is part of the eighth biennial MTSU Holocaust Studies Conference.
A leading expert on Arab and Islamic politics as well as U.S. Middle East policy, Satloff recently was interviewed on National Public Radio and “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS about his groundbreaking book Among the Righteous: Lost Stories of the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands.
The book presents stories of Arabs who risked their lives to save Jews during World War II, as well as stories of those who collaborated with the Nazis. These stories, Satloff writes, offer “people of goodwill among each community—Arab and Jewish—a way to look through the lens of one of the most powerful narratives in history and see each other differently.”
Satloff’s appearance is co-sponsored by MTSU’s Middle East Center. For more information, contact Dr. Allen Hibbard, director of the center and professor of English, at 615-494-8809 or ahibbard@mtsu.edu.

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