Herb Keinon offers an intimate perspective of the conflicts in the Middle East and appears frequently on a variety of radio and television programs in the United States, Canada and Europe as a guest commentator on the situation in Israel. He has also lectured widely both in Israel and the U.S. on the subject.

Keinon became a diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post in 2000 and has covered immigration and absorption, religious parties, haredim and the settlements. He has also been a features writer and weekly columnist at the paper. He is also responsible for covering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman. He often travels with Netanyahu on his frequent trips abroad.

This lecture is sponsored by the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Near Eastern Studies department, the School of Journalism and the UA Hillel Foundation.