The Role of Religion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: How Does Interfaith Dialogue Promote Peace?

In this conversation, Abdullah Antepli, Duke¿s Chief Representative for Muslim Affairs and Associate Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center will respond to Yakir Englander, on the role of religion and interfaith dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Yakir Englander is a specialist in modern Jewish philosophy, with a focus on gender issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His PhD, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2012), is in Jewish philosophy and gender studies. His dissertation, "The Perception of the Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Society during the Last Sixty Years, and its Ramifications for Understanding the Human Subject and the World" offers new understandings of the images of the male body in Jewish Ultra-Orthodox contexts in recent decades.Englander's research is interdisciplinary, touching on the interfaces between Jewish philosophy, Jewish law and gender studies. He has authored articles on sexuality in Judaism (gay and lesbian issues, masturbation, and women's sexuality in Jewish divorce law), on the role of the body as a mnemonic in the work of post-Holocaust writer Aharon Appelfeld, on "shame" in the Talmud, and on the body of the Hasidic tzadik (Jewish saint).