Mohamed, Ethan and I are getting closer to realizing the ODR source book that Eleven publishing is planning to release later this year. All the chapters are back with the authors for final edits, so we may actually be on schedule. When it comes out, I think it will be, as Mohamed has suggested, a 'Bible' for ODR - the authors are from all over the world and the topics covered will be theoretical and practical.
The Israel/Palestine course through SMU is getting closer, and assuming I continue to recover from the little bout of pneumonia that I have had, we should have an interesting time. Certainly, no matter how the class goes, this is an interesting time to be in Israel and Palestine - Hamas and Fatah are trying to reconcile, Egypt is declaring that they have "no enemies - anywhere" and the Israeli government seems nervous about the tenor of the times. There have been a couple of interesting occurrences in the U.S. that suggest Israeli/American forces are even more tightly closing ranks. The now rescinded recension of the honorary degree for Tony Kushner at City University of New York, and the ongoing attempt to sue Jimmy Carter for using the word 'apartheid' in the title of his book on Israeli-Palestinian relations would seem to indicate that the tension is ratcheting up a bit. At any rate, I'm looking forward to discussing the state of things with the SMU group, on the ground in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
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