On 5 March 2004 Michael Oren, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Centre and author of the acclaimed Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, gave a talk on the links between his history of the Six Day War and Israel's present predicaments in the Occupied Territories.
Michael Oren is an American who has lived in Israel for over 25 years and has served in the Israeli Defence Forces. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Centre, a Jerusalem based institute for Jewish social thought and public policy that was established in 1994, where he heads the Middle East history project. He has published many scholarly articles on modern Middle East history and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
A graduate of Columbia and Princeton universities, he has received fellowships from the U.S. Departments of State and Defence, and from the British and Canadian governments. In Israel, he has been a Lady Davis Fellow of Hebrew University and a Moshe Dayan Fellow at Tel-Aviv University. In addition, Oren served as an advisor on interfaith relations in the government of Yitzhak Rabin and was an advisor to the Israeli delegation to the United Nations.
