#  Jewish-Muslim Interrelations Series: "The Star of David and the Cedar Tree: Arab-Jewish Relations at the American University of Beirut (1900-1950)" by Caroline Kahlenberg 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 10, 2025** 

 05:30PM - 07:00PM EDT 

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 **Thompson Room, Barker Center**  



 

 



 

**Abstract**: The American University of Beirut (AUB) has long served as a hub of Arab national and cultural identity. Throughout the twentieth century, scores of Middle Eastern politicians and intellectuals graduated from its halls. This lecture explores AUB’s little-known history of Jewish-Arab relations. In the 1930s and early 1940s, Jews formed around ten percent of the university’s student body, including a small but vocal group of Zionist students. By examining dynamic Zionist-Arab encounters beyond the borders of British-Mandate Palestine (1917-1948)—which included daily student interactions, institutional collaborations, and conflict in the leadup to the 1948 War—this lecture traces a history of campus cooperations and frictions that has important resonances today.

 

 



 

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