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About Professor Mark Rosenblum
PROFESSOR MARK ROSENBLUM is an award-winning historian at Queens
College of the City University of New York where he is director of the
Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethnic and Racial
Tolerance, as well as the Michael Harrington Center for Democratic
Values and Social Change. An expert on the Middle East, he has combined
academic research and policy analysis with direct involvement in Mid
East conflict resolution since the 1980s.
Since the mid 1980s, Professor Rosenblum has been involved in numerous efforts to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian coexistence: through organizing and moderating six international conferences, hosting a roundtable discussion series televised in the U.S.," and by founding Americans for Peace Now and the Israeli-Palestinian Youth Dialogue program. Professor Rosenblum has been selected by the Forward Newspaper as one of the fifty most influential American Jews.
Rosenblum has spoken and written extensively as a Middle East political analyst, and his numerous radio and television appearances include: Larry King Live, MSNBC, CBS and NBC evening news, CNN and National Public Radio.
He has authored or edited numerous articles, papers, and highly regarded insider reports, in addition to several books, the two forthcoming being: Two Jerusalems, One Peace: Capitalizing On Reality, and From the Oslo Back Channel to the Al Aksa Intifada: The Elusive Peace.
Professor Rosenblum has designed and taught a new curriculum at Queens College, "America and the Middle East: A Clash of Civilizations or a Meeting of Minds?" This program aspires to create a "learning community" that integrates Arab, Islamic, Jewish and Christian undergraduate students with community leaders, high school teachers and outside experts from the Middle East. One of the things that differentiates Rosenblum's curriculum is that it requires each of the students to cross over the divide and "walk in the other side's shoes." This exercise is designed to examine the pains and claims of the side to which each student is least sympathetic and about which each is least knowledgeable. The program has garnered national attention and has been featured in the New York Times (article attached) and The Chronicle of Higher Education and on CBS-TV national news, National Public Radio and a host of other electronic and print media.
Rosenblum's educational project has earned him a Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching at Queens College.
Professor Rosenblum also launched a series of cultural and educational programs, "Bridging Cultural Divides", included Islamic and Jewish music, "Common Chords;" Islamic and Jewish art, "The Art of the Possible;" Kosher and Halal cuisine, "Food for Thought;" and interfaith dialogues, "Shared Traditions."
Professor Rosenblum's public education project, "Insight on Incitement: Towards Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence" was selected by the Clinton Global Initiative as one of two initial grantees in the field of Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation.
In the fall of 2009 Professor Rosenblum became Director of the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance, funded by a generous multi-year grant from the United States Department of Education.
Since the mid 1980s, Professor Rosenblum has been involved in numerous efforts to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian coexistence: through organizing and moderating six international conferences, hosting a roundtable discussion series televised in the U.S.," and by founding Americans for Peace Now and the Israeli-Palestinian Youth Dialogue program. Professor Rosenblum has been selected by the Forward Newspaper as one of the fifty most influential American Jews.
Rosenblum has spoken and written extensively as a Middle East political analyst, and his numerous radio and television appearances include: Larry King Live, MSNBC, CBS and NBC evening news, CNN and National Public Radio.
He has authored or edited numerous articles, papers, and highly regarded insider reports, in addition to several books, the two forthcoming being: Two Jerusalems, One Peace: Capitalizing On Reality, and From the Oslo Back Channel to the Al Aksa Intifada: The Elusive Peace.
Professor Rosenblum has designed and taught a new curriculum at Queens College, "America and the Middle East: A Clash of Civilizations or a Meeting of Minds?" This program aspires to create a "learning community" that integrates Arab, Islamic, Jewish and Christian undergraduate students with community leaders, high school teachers and outside experts from the Middle East. One of the things that differentiates Rosenblum's curriculum is that it requires each of the students to cross over the divide and "walk in the other side's shoes." This exercise is designed to examine the pains and claims of the side to which each student is least sympathetic and about which each is least knowledgeable. The program has garnered national attention and has been featured in the New York Times (article attached) and The Chronicle of Higher Education and on CBS-TV national news, National Public Radio and a host of other electronic and print media.
Rosenblum's educational project has earned him a Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching at Queens College.
Professor Rosenblum also launched a series of cultural and educational programs, "Bridging Cultural Divides", included Islamic and Jewish music, "Common Chords;" Islamic and Jewish art, "The Art of the Possible;" Kosher and Halal cuisine, "Food for Thought;" and interfaith dialogues, "Shared Traditions."
Professor Rosenblum's public education project, "Insight on Incitement: Towards Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence" was selected by the Clinton Global Initiative as one of two initial grantees in the field of Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation.
In the fall of 2009 Professor Rosenblum became Director of the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance, funded by a generous multi-year grant from the United States Department of Education.
