WHO: Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian author and human rights lawyer

WHAT: A speech, “What Went Wrong With Peace: The Legal Pitfalls of the Oslo Accords”

WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: UC Hastings College of the Law, 198 McAllister St. (corner of Hyde), Room B.

BACKGROUND: Shehadeh is the founder of the first Palestinian human rights organization in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. His focus on the legal pitfalls of the Oslo Accords aims to explore aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict too often absent from public discussion in the United States.

Visiting the United States from the West Bank town of Ramallah, Shehadeh recently completed a memoir titled “Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine.” New York Times Pulitzer- Prize-winning columnist Anthony Lewis, who contributed the forward, asserts that the book “shatters the stereotype many Americans have of Palestinians.” Shehadeh is an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists and the author of several books about human rights, international law, and the Middle East.

INTERVIEWS: Raja Shehadeh will be available for individual interviews immediately before and immediately after his speech. To make arrange- ments, contact Fran Marsh.

This event is sponsored by the Student Chapter of Amnesty International and the Office of the Academic Dean, UC Hastings.