[applause] good evening everybody, i am bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of everybody here, welcome and thank you for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store Rashid Khalidi who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years and before that taught at the university of chicago for a decade and ahalf. He is also editor of the journal of palestine studies, the author of sevenprevious books on the middle east. His newest work , the hundred years war on palestine covers some aspects of palestinian history that he has written about before butthis is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members who were present at some key events and provocative because he offers a very different take on the Israeli Palestinian
Television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening everybody. I am bradley graham, the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of everyone, welcome and thank you very much for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store, rashid khalidi. Who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years. Before that, taught at the university of chicago for a decade andahalf. Hes also editor of the journal of palestine studies. And the author of seven previous books on the middle east. His newest work, the hundred years war on palestine. Covers some aspects of palestinian history that rashid has written about before that this is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members. Who are present at key events. And provocative because he offers a
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Welcome back. If you can please take your seats. Looking forward to the next panel around some of the clinical advances that have been made over the past 50 years by virtue of the National Cancer act. You know, as a former nci director, you know that one of your greatest assets and some of your best friends are those heroes who agree to become Cancer Center directors, because they have to deal with the complexity of everything from supporting basic research on one end of the spectrum to all the way to the other end of the spectrum with regard to training, clinical research, cancer prevention, et cetera. Being a director is a challenge. Were very fortunate today to have with us to chair this next panel dr. Steve rosen who was the for 24 years the director of the robert h lauri and is the head of the Beckman Research center at city of hope. He has a distinguished career as a medical oncologist and particularly addressing himself now to much of the academic progress thats being made, havi