Armenians and the Left Public Forum co-sponsored by the Harvard Armenian Student Society and the Harvard Alliance for Justice in the Middle East


   The “34-Day War” in Perspective the 2006 Israeli offensive in Lebanon and its aftermath


   Elaine Hagopian, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Simmons College

  Ara Sanjian, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History and Director, The Armenian Research Center, University of Michigan – Dearborn

   David Barsamian, founder, Alternative Radio

   Belfer Case Study Room, Harvard University
   CGIS Building South, Room S020
   1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

   Free and Open to the Public

   For more information, please go to: www.armeniansforlebanon.com
   Directions:
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   On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border attack triggering a wide scale military response from Israel. The attack, described by Amnesty International as a campaign of collective punishment, targeted vital Lebanese infrastructure, generated more than one million refugees, destroyed around 30 thousand homes and caused over 1200 civilian casualties.
      In this panel discussion, three experts on the Middle East discuss the war on Lebanon in the context of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, examine how Lebanese civil society –including the 120,000 strong Armenian community—responded to the ensuing humanitarian and political crisis and analyze how the Israeli offensive was portrayed in the U.S. media.

    http://www.armeniansandtheleft.com/lebanon/aatl_events_dec1306_color.pdf