Shibley Telhami, well known expert on Arab-Israeli relations, will be guest speaker at the Peace Studies Program's lunchtime seminar Thursday, Oct. 4, at 12:15 p.m. in G-08 Uris Hall on the Cornell University campus.

Telhami, former director of the Near Eastern Studies Program at Cornell, holds the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland-College Park, and his commentary on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is frequently sought by the media. His lecture, titled "Can the Arab-Israeli Peace Process be Revived?" is free and open to the public.

The New York Times published an op-ed piece by Telhami on Sept. 19 of this year in which he stated: "The disaster we now face profoundly affects the lives of Israelis and Palestinians regardless of American reaction: In the disaster that befell America, they should see the grim prospects of their own future if they maintain the violent course of the past year."

Telhami is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has taught at several universities, including Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of California-Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in political science. Among his publications are Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David Accords (Columbia University Press, 1990); International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict , ed. with Milton Esman (Cornell University Press, 1995); as well as numerous articles.

Fluent in both Arabic and Hebrew, Telhami delivers weekly radio broadcasts throughout the Middle East. He is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post , The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times . He served as an adviser to the United States delegation during the Iraq-Kuwait crisis, authored a report on Persian Gulf security for the Council on Foreign Relations and is a

member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Human Rights Watch/Middle East Advisory Committee. He now serves on the American delegation of the Trilateral American/Israeli/Palestinian Anti-Incitement Committee, mandated by the 1999 Wye River Agreement.