YALE ACCORDS 2000 KEYNOTE SPEAKER HANAN ASHRAWI
PANELS AND SPEAKERS YALE ACCORDS 2000
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
Address: Saturday April 8, 8:00pm, Yale Law School, Levenson Auditorium
Discussion with Uri Savir: Sunday April 9, 11:00am, Linsly-Chittenden 102
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi is an internationally recognized spokesperson for the Palestinian
nationalist cause and one of the most prominent Middle East peace advocates. The former
Minister of Education, she is currently a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council,
as well as the executive director of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global
Dialogue and Democracy. Ever since an April 1988 Israeli-Palestinian debate on ABC's
Nightline when she shot to the spotlight of Middle East politics, Dr. Ashrawi has been
immensely popular both in the Middle East and abroad. She is often credited with having
played a crucial role in arranging a series of secret, behind-the-scenes talks between the
PLO and Israel, the most prominent of which were the series of meetings that led to the
drafting of the Oslo Accords. Her most recent book is “This Side of Peace.”
Uri Savir
Discussion with Hanan Ashrawi: April 9, 11:00am, Linsly-Chittenden 102
Address: Sunday, April 9, 1:00pm, Slifka Center
His Excellency Uri Savir is currently a member of the Center Party in the Israeli Knesset.
He is also the President of the Peres Center for Peace, and is the former Director General
of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Savir was Israel’s chief negotiator for the
Oslo Accords. He has also worked as a negotiator during the Wye Plantation talks with Syria,
and was involved in negotiations during the opening session of the final status talks with
the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Savir wrote “The Process: 1100 Days that Changed the Middle East” as a
reflection on his experience as Israel’s top negotiator during Oslo.
Maryam Elahi
Human Rights Address: Friday, April 7, 3:00-4:30pm, WLH 119
Ms. Elahi is the Direction of the Human Rights Program at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
She was a leading force behind the establishment of the Human Rights Program at Trinity in
August 1998 and became its first Director in April 1999. Ms. Elahi was formerly with Amnesty
International (AI) for eight and a half years, over seven of which she worked as the Advocacy
Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Europe in the Washington DC Office of AI.
Prior to her tenure with Amnesty International, she worked with the Lawyers Committee for
Human Rights in New York.
Yonah Alexander
Security and Terrorism Address: Saturday, April 8, 4:30-6:00pm, LC 102
Professor Alexander is the director of the Terrorism Studies
Program at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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