Other Participants
Hans-Georg Fleck holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in Medieval
and Contemporary History, Eastern European History and Scandinavian
Languages. He has been with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty
(FNF) since 1991 as a Resident Representative abroad, first in Poland, then
in Croatia and the former Yugoslavia. He headed the FNF Jerusalem Office
from 2005-12 and currently heads FNF’s Istanbul Office.
Ahlam Abbasi-Ghanem has a Master’s degree in Diplomatic Studies and a
BSc in Civil Engineering. She worked at Orient House in Jerusalem from
2001-2006 as a political officer responsible for the European file, participated
in several bilateral negotiations sessions, and was a member of the
transportation technical committee. She co-directed an Israeli-Palestinian
project for planning Jerusalem in peace.
David Harman is Professor of Education at Bard College Graduate Division.
He was previously on the faculties of Harvard University’s Graduate School of
Education, the Hebrew University, and Teachers College, Columbia
University. He has held senior posts at Israel’s Ministry of Education, the
World Bank and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He is
author of eleven books and monographs.
Jeffrey Helsing is Dean of Curriculum in the Academy for International
Conflict Management and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute of
Peace, and has taught at universities in the US and the Middle East. His
courses have included conflict resolution, human rights, comparative foreign
policies, American foreign policy, and international relations theory. He has
co-edited a book on the links between human rights, humanitarian law and
peacebuilding, and written articles on Middle East conflicts.
Eshel Kleinhouse teaches history and civic studies and is headmaster of Hof
Hasharon secondary and high school. Born on Kibbutz Hatzerim, he served
as a combat soldier in the IDF. His MA thesis in education studied Israel youth
delegations to Poland. He is a member of the Israeli-Palestinian "Prime"
project writing a dual-narrative history textbook.
Yusuf Said Natsheh supervised the restoration of the Mamluk monuments in
and surrounding the al-Haram al-Sharif and is the key Palestinian expert for
the Unesco mission to Jerusalem. He is Director of the Department of Islamic
Archaeology and Tourism at the al-Haram al-Sharif. He is a part-time lecturer
at al-Quds University and has published books and articles on Jerusalem's
architectural heritage.
Danny Rubinstein teaches journalism and Middle Eastern Studies at BenGurion University. After military service he studied Sociology and Oriental
Studies at Hebrew University. He was an information officer in Prime Minister
Levy Eshkol’s bureau, and then reported for Davar as a specialist on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He joined Haaretz in 1990 and was a columnist
and member of the editorial board until 2012.
Walid Salem was born in East Jerusalem and has written thirty books and
manuals on democracy, civil society, citizenship, refugees, Jerusalem and
peace-building. He has been a consultant, evaluator and trainer for 30,000
people. Since 1993, he has been director of The Center for Democracy and
Community Development in East Jerusalem. He lectures frequently at local
and international conferences and seminars.
Roni Stauber is Academic Director of the Wiener Collection, Senior
Research Fellow at the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary
European Jewry and lecturer at the Department of Jewish History, all at Tel
Aviv University. His research covers anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and its
aftermath, and its impact on Israeli society. Currently, he’s examining the role
of Israel's Foreign Office in establishing the relationship between Israel and
West Germany, 1953-1965