A national expert in Middle East history and politics will speak at the University of Delaware on Tuesday, Oct. 17, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is at the heart of the recent violence in the region.

Kamran Bokhari is Senior Director of the Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington, D.C. He is currently teaching a course at UD titled “Arab Israeli Politics: Middle Eastern Geopolitics.”

The talk is scheduled for 4 p.m. in the Trabant Theater. It is hosted by the Biden Institute, the Office of Institutional Equity, the Political Science and International Relations Department, and the SNF Ithaca Initiative at the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School for Public Policy and Administration.

Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa's Professional Development Institute. Bokhari has served as the Central Asia studies course coordinator at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute.

He was a fellow with the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Bokhari has also been a senior consultant with the World Bank. He has 15 years of experience in the private sector intelligence space, during which he provided intellectual leadership in the publishing of cutting-edge geopolitical analysis and forecasts.

Members of the UD community are asked to register for the event with this form.