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The article reports on a panel discussion about the Palestine Papers, the leaked documents concerning the negotiations between Israel and Palestine that have caused controversy across the Arab world. Some questions offered by Palestine Center executive director Yousef Munayyer to panelists include their predictions on the effect the disclosures will have on the Palestinian Authority and future of negotiations. Also discussed are the ramifications of the Papers for Palestinian leadership.

The article presents information on various developments related to Middle East. The Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America will hold their annual joint convention December 24-28 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago. The Union of Arab Student Associations will hold its national conference for Arab-American students January 30 to February 1. Hundreds of young students from across the country will gather at George Washington University in Washington D.C. to network, discuss pressing issues, coordinate efforts on a national level, and plan an agenda and strategy for the year. In addition to that, the article presents other developments related to Middle East.

The article discusses the highlights of the conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) held on May 27-30, 2010 at the Doubletree Inn in Santa Monica, California. Panelist Judea Pearl, a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) computer science professor talked about his paper "Carving a Dialogue Between Muslims and Jews," criticizing Islamist violence. Protests against speaker Ronen Cohen from Ariel University in Samaria, Israel were carried out, claiming the Ariel settlement was a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The article discusses the highlights of a two day conference entitled "Jews and Muslims in France: The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe" held in Washington, D.C. on March 17 and 18, 2010. A paper presented by Maud Mandel of Brown University revealed the impact of Israel's conflict with its neighbors on Jews and Muslims in France. Frédérick Encel of Sciences Po, social university in Paris, discussed France's strategic orientation in the Middle East since the election of President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference regarding the Middle East is presented. The conference featured several speakers including Ambassador C. David Welch, Mark Kimmitt, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, and Nabil Haddad, executive director of the Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Research Center. Topics emphasized at the conference include the Palestinian-Israel peace process, religion in the Middle East and the military interests of the U.S. in the region.

The article focuses on New York University historian Tony Judt's participation in a symposium at CooDer Union of New York, along with five other writers, on October 4, 2006 about the paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," by Professor John Mearsheimer and Professor Stephen Walt. The two highly respected academics created a furor by daring to write about Israel and its American lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The article reports that the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies held its annual symposium, this year on "The Politics of Education in the Arab World: Past Legacies, Current Challenges," at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. on March 23 and 24, 2006. Many of the papers presented focused on historical perspectives of education in the Arab world, including education during the colonial period. A few, however, addressed such contemporary challenges as the reform of Islamic education in modern but increasingly Islamist societies, public education for often alienated Muslim students in secular France, and humanitarian outreach.

The article reports on the calls for papers/panels announced by the Law School at the University of Southampton in England for its conference titled International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism.