From Other to Brother – Transformative Encounters on the West Bank

Khaled Abu Awwad is a founder of Roots, a grassroots movement of understanding and transformation among Israelis & Palestinians. He is the Chairman of Al-Tariq, the Palestinian Institution for Development and Democracy. He received the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of nonviolence and tolerance in 2011 and is described by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan as one of the world's 500 most influential Muslims. Yakov Nagen is the director of Ohr Torah Stone's Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue, the related Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity, and a Rabbi at the Otniel Yeshiva. He is also the co-chair of the Abrahamic Reunion, an Israeli/Palestinian organization which seeks peace by making connections and working to make religion a unifying rather than a dividing factor. He is author of multiple works on philosophy and the Talmud. The conversation is moderated by Manfred Philipp. Sponsored by the CUNY Alliance for Inclusion, the Belle Zeller Scholarship Trust Fund, the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and the Center for the Study of the Holocaust/Genocide/Crimes Against Humanity.