Discussion events with Mohammad Darawshe, the Director of Planning, Equality, and Shared Society at Givat Haviva Educational Center and a Shalom Hartman Institute faculty member. The events focused on discussions regarding current affairs and analyzing the results of the recent elecctions and their ramifications to Jewish-Arab relations within Israeli society. Events were held at NYU, CUNY Central, and Queens College.

Discussion events regarding current Palestinian and Israeli public opinion of the peace process with Prof. Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah and visiting professor at Brandeis University, and his partner in research Prof. Tamar S. Hermann, Academic Director of the Guttman Center for Surveys at the Israel Democracy Institute and a professor at the Open University. Events were held at Hunter College, New York University, and Brooklyn College.

Lecture and dialogue with Prof. Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Dean of the Social Work School in the Hebrew University, and Dr. Sarah Ozacky-Lazar, Director of the Forum for the Promotion of the Arab Society in the Israeli Academia, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Events were held at the College of Staten Island, Teachers College at Columbia University, Queens College, and New York University.

Film screening followed by a discussion about Bedouin and Gender in Israel with Dr. Safa Aburabia, a post-poctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University and a Fulbright and Israel Institute Fellow. Event was held at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Film screening and cocktail dinner, with conversation with the directors Avishai Mekonen and Shari Rothfarb Mekonen about their personal story and racial diversity in Judaism. Event was held at New York University.

Lecture and dialogue featuring Nizar Farsakh, former general director of the PLO Delegation in Washington, D.C. and Middle East expert, and architect Karen Lee Bar-Sinai, co-founder and design director at SAYA/Design for Change – and organization which envisions and designs for peace through “resolution planning,” with Professor Jacqueline Klopp, Earth Institute, Columbia University as moderator. Event was held at Columbia University.

Discussion events with Dr. Hassan Agbaria, Pincipal of Yad Beyad – Gesher al HaWadi (Hand in Hand – A Bridge Over the Wadi), an Israeli public (bilingual) school with an integrated Arab-Jewish student population; and Mr. Yaniv Sagee, CEO of Givat Haviva – the Center for a Shared Society in Israel. Events were held at Roosevelt House/Hunter College, College of Staten Island, New York University, Columbia University/Teachers College, and Queens College.

Featured Professor Khalil Shikaki, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, and Professor Tamar Hermann, Professor of Political Science at the Open University and a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Events were held at the College of Staten Island, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Graduate Center, New York University, and Fordham University.

In the Middle East featured Professor Yossi Leshem of Tel Aviv University. Events were held at the College of Staten Island and New York University.

Featured Vardit Kaplan and Amal Rihan (AbuRamadan) from the Women Wage Peace movement. Events were held at the Roosevelt House at Hunter College, the College of Staten Island, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Fordham University.

Featured Ofer Manor, Chief Architect, Jerusalem Municipality, Karen Lee Bar Sinai, Architect and Urban Designer and Co-Founder, SAYA/Design for Change, Quilian Riano, Architectural and Urban Designer, City college of New York, Part-time Assistant Professor, The New School and Founder, DSGN AGNC, and was moderated by Jeff Maskovsky, Associate Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center and of Urban Studies, Queens College.

Featured Professors Shai Feldman, Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and professor of Politics at Brandeis University, and Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah and Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Roundtables were held at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, and the College of Staten Island.