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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">MES Forum,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Next week is the 3<sup>rd</sup> Talking About the Middle East Dialogue: What makes a definition of a contested term like Zionism or Intifada reasonable? Join us!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:18.5pt;font-family:"Buckeye Serif 2";color:black">What makes a definition of a contested term like Zionism or Intifada reasonable?</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:#A90024">Talking About the Middle East Dialogue #3</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">January 27, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Mendenhall Lab 191</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Hannah Kosstrin</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Joy McCorriston</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Yiðit Akin</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Naomi Brenner</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Johanna Sellman</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Ori Yehudai</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Jenan Qaraqish</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">Sara Weinstein</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Serif 2";color:black">In the public discourse about the Middle East, the definitions of words matter greatly. When we are not aligned in our definitions, we risk talking past
one another or misrepresenting one another’s viewpoints in ways that do not advance mutual understanding. And when our definitions are deficient in some way, these deficiencies emerge in the discourse as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Serif 2";color:black">CEHV Associate Director Dr. Aaron Yarmel will facilitate a dialogue about the question: What makes a definition of a contested term like
<i>Zionism </i>or <i>Intifada </i>reasonable? We will pursue this question by identifying rival answers to it before examining the best arguments for these answers. Join us for this collaborative process of working together to identify the best answers to an
important question and then rigorously examining the best arguments for and against those answers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:black">go.osu.edu/MCRME</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:#A90024">Melton Center for Jewish Studies</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:#A90024">Middle East Studies Center</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:#A90024">Center for Ethics and Human Values</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Buckeye Sans 2";color:#A90024">Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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