The Palestinian Citizens in Israel in Time of Crisis With Mohammad Darawshe

Mohammad Darawshe will examine the main trends in Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, and the implications of the October 7^th events on the daily relations between the two sides.  Mr. Darawshe is a leading expert on Jewish Arab relations, and has initiated many cross-sector Jewish Arab partnerships which he will describe in his talk.

Mohammad Darawshe is Director of Strategy at the Center for Shared Society at Givat Haviva, Israel’s oldest organization, promoting cohesion and understanding between its Jewish and Arab citizens.  He holds a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Management from Haifa University and is a Robert Bosch Academy Fellow and faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.   Darawshe is teaching at the University of Illinois Global Institute in Urbana-Champaign this semester.

He has also served as a strategic advisor on initiatives for the Arab sector in the Prime Minister’s office, as a Knesset parliamentary assistant, as Elections Campaign Manager for the Democratic Arab Party and the United Arab List, and as an elected member of the town council of his hometown, Iksal, near Nazareth. He lives with his wife and four children in Iksal and is a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the State of Israel.

This lecture is sponsored in part by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Program in Jewish Culture and Society.