Alliance of Terror: Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah Lecture by Prof. Barry Rubin (director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, Herzliya)

Lecture held by Prof. Barry Rubin (director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, Herzliya)

Chair: Simone Dinah Hartmann (STOP THE BOMB)

This event is organized by STOP THE BOMB and co-sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East – Austria

Wednesday, October 29th, 19.30
Urania, Klubsaal, Uraniastraße 1, 1010 Vienna

The coalition of Iran, Syria and the djihadistic Shi’ites’ militia Hezbollah in Lebanon is a strategic challenge for Israel. This alliance is only understandable under consideration of the fight between Arab nationalism and Islamism in order to get influence on governments and support of the population in almost all the countries in the Middle East. This coalition, headed by Iran and including Syria, Hezbollah and obviously also the Palestinian Hamas, faces a contradictory coalition in which most of the other Arab countries but also Israel and the West are involved. In this controversy, the question of terrorism is a decisive but not the only one to be argued in this lecture.

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal . His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin); the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria(Palgrave-Macmillan); A Chronological History of Terrorism , with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley). Prof. Rubin’s columns can be read online . Barry Rubin is on the Board of Directors for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

Lecture and discussion will be held in English.

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