Israeli ambassador to US to speak Feb. 7 at Baker Institute

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News staff

Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, will speak Feb. 7 at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. “A Conversation with His Excellency Michael B. Oren” begins at 11:30 a.m. in Baker Hall’s Kelly International Conference Facility.

	MICHAEL OREN

Oren was appointed ambassador May 3, 2009. Previously, he was the Lady Davis Fellow of Hebrew University, a Moshe Dayan Fellow at Tel-Aviv University and the Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown universities and has received fellowships from the U.S. departments of State and Defense and from the British and Canadian governments.

Oren is the author of “Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East” and “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present.” Both books were New York Times best-sellers. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic.

Oren is a graduate of Princeton and Columbia universities.

Rice faculty, staff and students who want to attend must RSVP by e-mail (bipprsvp@rice.edu), by fax (713-348-5993) or on the Web at http://bakerinstitute.org/events/a-conversation-with-his-excellency-michael-b.-oren. A webcast of the event can also be seen at this address.