By Bruce Wadzeck
A Palestinian honored by the European Parliment for his efforts on behalf of peace, a Pulitzer Price winning writer on the Middle East and a distinquished rabbi will hold a forum in Princeton on the possibilities for peace in the Middle Easte.Details are below:
Two Narratives about the
Conflict in Israel/Palestine
Friday, April 17
8:00 p.m.
Princeton University
Frist Campus Center
Room 302
The Challenges for Peace
in the Holy Land
Saturday, April 18
7:00 p.m.
Princeton Church of Christ
33 River Road
Princeton
Aziz Sarah, speaker and panelist
Aziz Sarah is Senior Research Associate at the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He also serves as Palestinian chairman for Bereaved Families Forum in Israel‐Palestine. Not only has he spoken at hundreds of churches, mosques, and synagogues on interfaith dialogue and the role of religion in reconciliation, he has also lectured at many universities and international organizations, including Princeton, Brandeis, Columbia, Fordham, Georgetown, and Yale. He was honored for his peace efforts by European Parliament with the Silver Rose Award and has received the Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East from the Institute of International Education, and the Eisenhower Medallion.
Karen House, panelist
Karen House is a journalist who has specialized in covering the Middle East. Her journalism awards include a Pulitzer
Prize for international reporting coverage of the Middle East in 1984, two Overseas Press Club awards for coverage of
the Middle East and Islam, and the Edwin M. Hood Award for excellence in diplomatic reporting for a series on Saudi
Arabia in 1982. Having served as president of International News and as publisher of the Wall Street Journal, she is
currently a senior fellow at the Belfar Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of
Government where she is researching a book on Saudi Arabia.
Rabbi Eric Wisnia, panelist
Rabbi Eric Wisnia has served Congregation Beth Chaim since June 1977. Having received a Doctorate of Divinity from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Wisnia has served on the Institutional Review Board for Medical Ethics of The Medical Center of Princeton, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Family Service Agency of Princeton, Board of Parents Helping Parents of Bucks County, and is past President of the New Jersey Association of Reform Rabbis and past Chairman of the Committee on Religious Ministries of Princeton Hospital.

