Description
Join us for a compelling conversation with Husam Zomlot, the Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK since 2018, in conversation with Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project.
Together, these experts bring a wealth of experience in global diplomacy and first-hand understanding of the complexities of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and their insights will offer unique perspectives on the conflict as they delve into the historic and contemporary challenges in the search for peace, freedom and rights for all.
Join them as they reflect on this year marking the 75th anniversary of both the creation of the State of Israel and the Nakba catastrophe of the mass displacement of Palestinians. Does the recent intensification of the conflict suggest ongoing deterioration or does the extent of the crisis begin to offer a way out and a much-needed hint of hope for the future.
The speakers will explore how framings and narratives around the conflict and public opinion is shifting, not always in unilinear ways, and ask what responsibilities and what role the UK and the international community should be playing.
Don’t miss a multifaceted and nuanced conversation and the search for hope in an area where the sun setting on the British Empire left behind a legacy of conflict which rages to this day.
About the Speakers
Husam Zomlot
Ambassador Dr Husam S. Zomlot is the Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom. Prior to his appointment to the UK, Dr Zomlot served as Ambassador to the United States (Head of the PLO General Delegation to the United States), and Strategic Affairs Advisor to the Palestinian President. Dr Zomlot’s previous official roles include serving as Ambassador at large for the Palestinian Presidency and Director of Fatah Foreign Relations Commission.
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is a political analyst and President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP). He previously served as MENA Director for the European Council on Foreign Relations and Head of the Middle East Taskforce at the Washington DC New America Foundation.
Levy was a Senior Advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin during the Government of Ehud Barak (1999-2001). He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel/Palestine peace talks at Taba under Barak and at Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin (1994-95).
Levy briefed the UN Security Council on four occasions in the past five years, the latest of which from February 2025 can be viewed here.
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