The Columbia University Chapter of SPME presents Matthias Kuentzel on “Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denial and the Cult of Sacrifice: The Iranian Holy War”

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The Columbia University Chapter of

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

Presents

Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denial and the Cult of Sacrifice: The Iranian Holy War

Speaker: Matthias Kuentzel, PhD
Location: 301 Uris Hall**
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm

Matthias Kuentzel is a political scientist who lives in Germany. He earned his doctorate, summa cum laude, at the University of Hamburg. He is a research associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2001, his research and writing have focused on anti-Semitism in current Islamic thinking, Islamism and National Socialism, German and European policies towards the Middle East, and Iran. His articles have been published in The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal and Internationale Politik. In 2006, he became a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

A year ago, he became a cause celebre in the struggle for academic freedom when his invited presentation, “Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Anti-Semitism in the Middle East,” at the University of Leeds (UK) was canceled at the last minute due to “security concerns.”

His new book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, published by Telos Press, recently won the London Book Festival Prize; it was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review on January 6: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Goldberg-t.html

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* Uris Hall is the main Graduate School of Business building. It is located directly north of and behind Low Library, to the left of the Campus Walk as you enter it from Broadway at 116th Street.

For additional information, contact www.telospress.com .

The Columbia University Chapter of SPME presents Matthias Kuentzel on “Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denial and the Cult of Sacrifice: The Iranian Holy War”

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