Former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt to Speak in Reading

From Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks

The Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks and Albright College present the 45th annual Leo Camp Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m., in Albright College’s South Lounge in the McMillan Student Center, located at the intersection of 13th and Bern streets in Reading. Parking is available in the lot at the corner of 13th and Bern streets. The lecture is free and open to the public, including interested teens, college students, and adults.

This year’s speaker is former U.S. Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer, currently the S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel, and from 1997 to 2001, he served as the United States Ambassador to Egypt. Before that, he served as speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Middle East advisor on the policy planning staff, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research.

Throughout his career, Kurtzer was instrumental in formulating and executing U.S. policy toward the Middle East peace process. He served on Secretary of State James A. Baker’s Middle East peace team that brought about the 1991 Madrid peace conference, and chaired the multilateral peace talks that followed. Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Kurtzer to serve on the Secretary’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. In 2007, he was named the first commissioner of the professional Israel Baseball League.

Kurtzer is the co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, co-author of The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011, co-author of Peace Derailed: The Decline and Fall of U.S. Diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, 2009-2025 (forthcoming); editor of Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and numerous scholarly articles and op-eds on foreign policy issues. Kurtzer received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

His talk entitled “Is the Middle East at an Inflection Point?” will incorporate his extensive knowledge and experience while responding to the rapidly changing political and cultural landscape there.

For additional information, please contact the Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks at info@jfreading.org or 610-921-0624.

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