How do Palestinians and Israelis perceive and experience the ongoing war? What past events in their collective histories are relevant here, and how can they act on those perceptions and experiences? What, then, are the war's implications on Palestinians' and Israelis' politics and ideas about future of their conflict? How coherent are those implications? Finally, what are the war's regional and global dimensions? Most crucially, what are the United States' interests and constraints in the war, and how might one explain the Biden administration's approach and shifts within it? Professor Cyrus Schayegh will address these three themes on Palestinian and Israeli perceptions, politics, and the regional and global repercussions of the ongoing Gaza War.

Cyrus Schayegh joined the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2017. Before, he was Associate Professor at Princeton University and, in 2005-2008, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut. His most recent works are the monograph The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Harvard UP, 2017), the edited volume Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy (Bloomsbury, 2020), and a primary source collection.

Moderated by Dr Annyssa Bellal, Executive Director of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform.