Corey Feinstein, assistant director of UC Irvine’s Olive Tree Initiative, recently participated in a private roundtable gathering (pictured) at the White House to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process with senior White House and State Department officials and other organizations representing diverse constituencies.
Already strained by water scarcity and political tensions, the arid Middle East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is losing critical water reserves at a rapid pace, from Turkey upstream to Syria, Iran and Iraq below.
Annual bon voyage celebration will help send students to Middle East in September.
Mark LeVine and Touraj Daryaee will participate in the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, to be held July 19-24.
In 2007, UC Irvine student leaders from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Druze and unaffiliated backgrounds set a goal to take a fact-finding trip to Israel and Palestine to better understand the nature of ongoing conflicts in the region.
The count is complete: A May 27 event raised more than $145,000 to support guest speakers, cultural events and undergraduate…
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UCI staff, leadership will host a traditional meal for students not home for the holiday
Program focused on Middle East tensions has spread to other campuses, conflicts