New English Review Symposium
New English Review's second annual symposium, “Decline, Fall & Islam” will be held June 18-19th at the Hampton Inn in Green Hills, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.
Our Speakers:
Raphael Israeli, born in Fes, Morocco, is currently teaching Islamic, Chinese and Middle Eastern History at Hebrew University. Graduate of Hebrew University in History and Arabic Literature, PhD in Chinese and Islamic History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.
Since 1974, Dr. Israeli has been Lecturer and then Professor of Islamic and Chinese History at Hebrew University, with sabbatical periods spent at York University in Toronto, the University of Pittsburg’s Semester at Sea program, Harvard University, Boston University, Australian National University in Canberra, Melbourne University and Naruto University in Japan. Dr. Israeli is the author of 26 books and some 100 scholarly articles in the fields of Islamic radicalism, Islamic terrorism, the Modern Middle East, Islam in China and Asia and the Opening of China by the French.
His latest books are:
- The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue, Sussex Academic Press, 2004
- Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology, Frank Cass, London, 2004
- War, Peace and Terror in the Middle East, Frank Cass, 2003.
- Jerusalem Divided: the Armistice Regime, 1947-1967, Frank Cass, 2002
- Green Crescent over Nazareth: the Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land, Frank Cass, 2002
- (ed.) Dangers of a Palestinian State, Geffen, Jerusalem, 2003.
- Islam in China: Religion, Ethnicity, Culture and Politics, Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books), Maryland, 2002
- Poison: Manifestations of a Blood Libel, Lexington Books, 2002.
- Arabs in Israel: Friends or Foes (Hebrew and English), Ariel Books, 2002 and 2007.
- Living with Islam: the Sources of Fundamentalist Islam (Hebrew), Achiasaf, 2006
- Islamic Radicalism and Political Violence: the Templars of Islam, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2007.
- The Spread of Islamikaze Islam into Europe, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2008
- Islamic Radicalism and Political Violence: The Templars of Islam and Sheikh Ra’id Salah, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2008
- Palestinians Between Nationalism and Islam : a Collection of Essays, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2008
- Piracy in Qumran: The Battle over the Scrolls of the Pre-Christ Era, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 2008
- The Islamic Challenge in Europe, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, 2008
- Muslim Minorities in the Modern State, Transaction, Rutgers University Press, 2008
- Muslim anti-Semitism in Christian Lands, Transaction, 2009
Richard L. Rubenstein is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Bridgeport and Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus at Florida State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Jewish theology, the Holocaust and other issues including After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism, The Cunning of History, My Brother Paul and Dissolving Alliance: The United States and the Future of Europe and Jihad and Genocide (2010).
Nidra Poller is an American novelist and journalist living in Paris and translator, most recently, of Humanism of the Other and Unforseen History. She has written extensively on the growing problem of antisemitism in Europe and has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Standpoint, Commentary, New English Review, City Journal, Jerusalem Post, Washington Times, Jewish Quarterly, NY Sun, National Review Online and Pajamas Media.
Ibn Warraq, Sr. Editor of New English Review and Vice President of World Encounter Institute. author of Why I am Not a Muslim, 1995, and editor of anthologies of Koranic criticism The Origins of the Koran, 1998, What the Koran Really Says, 2002, and the forthcoming Which Koran?, 2007—all Prometheus Books. He also edited an anthology of testimonies of ex-Muslims, Leaving Islam, 2003. His most recent book is Defending the West, A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism.
Warraq’s op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal in America and The Guardian in London, and he has addressed distinguished governing bodies round the world, including the United Nations in Geneva on the subject of apostasy.
Nonie Darwish is an American human rights activist, writer, public speaker and founder of Arabs for Israel and Former Muslims United. She is the author of the book Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror. Her second book is Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Her speech topics cover human rights, with emphasis on women’s rights and minority rights in the Middle East.
Hugh Fitzgerald, board Member of World Encounter Institute and Sr. Editor of New English Review has developed what could be highly effective alternative strategies in dealing with the challenge of Islamic aggression, both for Israel and the US. He is also a Sr. Analyst for Jihadwatch.
Jerry Gordon, Senior editor for New English Review and Senior Vice President of World Encounter Institute, specializes in domestic anti-terrorism policy. His work at NER has been used by Senator Joseph Lieberman as well as Representative Sue Myrick in drafting legislation to protect the United States against the efforts of those who would overturn the laws and customs of this country.
Rebecca Bynum is Publisher and Sr. Managing Editor of New English Review and board member of World Encounter Institute. Her book, Allah Is Dead is due to be published this year.
Norman Berdichevsky, a geographer, historian and linguist, is a contributing editor at New English Review. His published works include, Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History, and Nations, Language and Citizenship.
Mary Jackson is Senior Editor at New English Review and a regular columnist at Pajamas Media. Her career to date has been somewhat varied. Having been told at a young age that fine words butter no parsnips, she determined to put this theory to the test. To this end she worked in a greengrocer's, speaking fine words to parsnips and truth to power. Other duties included adding apples to pears and insult to injury. Fired for correcting a misplaced apostrophe, she began helping out on a whelk stall in the East End, but was fired again for stealing bits of Cockney rhyming slang and selling them on the black market. She aspires to work as a metaphor mixer in a large bakery, where she hopes to have her cake and eat her words.
D. L. Adams is an analyst and historian. His work has appeared in NER, Family Security Matters, American Thinker, Political Islam, and elsewhere. Mr. Adams has written on politics, culture, national security, human rights, Islamic doctrine, counter-terrorism, and history. Mr. Adams is co-founder of Stop Islamization of America and is currently working on his first book.
Mark Signorelli is a poet, playwright, and essayist, whose work is dedicated to the preservation of the best features of our western traditions. He is currently at work on a book-length critique of contemporary philosophical materialism. He teaches literature at a Catholic high school in New Jersey.
Program (more details to come)
Friday June 18th
Reception with Book Signings from 6 to 9PM
Saturday June 19th
Breakfast - 8-9:45AM
Opening Remarks - Jerry Gordon
Breakfast Speaker - Richard L. Rubenstein
Panel - 10-11:45AM
Rebecca Bynum, D. L. Adams and Mark Signorelli
Lunch - 12-1:45PM
Lunch Speaker - Hugh Fitzgerald
Panel - 2- 4:00PM
Jerry Gordon, Nidra Poller and Norman Berdichevsky
Break 4-6PM
Dinner 6-9PM
Dinner Speakers
Mary Jackson, Ibn Warraq, Nonie Darwish and Raphael Israeli
To register, please CLICK HERE.
Hampton Inn is offering a special rate of $135/night if you mention New English Review. Contact them at 615-777-0001.
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