Join us on December 11th for an in-depth discussion on Israel's use of non-state actors in modern warfare. Prompted by Dr. Yaniv Voller's 'Israel's Clan Strategy in Gaza,' a provocative new essay in The Middle East Journal, this conversation will reveal how Israel has tried to rely on Gazan tribes and what this policy spells for stability and reconstruction.
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Yaniv Voller
Senior Lecturer, Middle East Politics, University of Kent
Mr. Omar Shaban
Founder, PalThink for Strategic Studies
Dr. Ariel I. Ahram (Moderator)
The Middle East Journal, Middle East Institute
Extended Speaker Biographies
Dr. Yaniv Voller is a senior lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Kent, and associate fellow at the Royal United Service Institute in London. Dr. Voller's research has covered political contentions in the Middle East, North Africa, and Horn of Africa, authoring two books on the subjects, including his latest book Second Generation Liberation Wars: Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan. He is also a frequent commentator on Middle Eastern affairs on BBC, Al Jazeera, and TRT.
Mr. Omar Shaban is an analyst on the political economy of the Middle East and the founder of PalThink for Strategic Studies, an independent think tank in Gaza. He was a candidate for the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in 1996. He is independent from any political affiliation. Mr. Shaban regularly writes for various international magazines and has been interviewed by many well-known international newspapers.
Dr. Ariel I. Ahram (Moderator) is the Editor of The Middle East Journal. Dr. Ahram is a professor at Virginia Tech's School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of several acclaimed books on regional conflict, governance, and security, and he has served as the principal investigator for the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Ending Proxy Wars in the Middle East initiative.