Kenneth Stein To Speak on Carter’s Book

Professor Kenneth W. Stein’s single-sentence dismissal of Jimmy Carter’s book — “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments” — has become perhaps the most widely-quoted review of Carter’s effort.  Stein will be speaking publicly about Carter’s book on January 11, 2007 at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles:

The Carter Book Controversy: Origins and Impact
Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, Emory University

Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies

January 11, 2007  •  7:30 p.m. Sinai Temple

10400 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles

Following the plublication of Jimmy Carter’s recent book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid,” Emory University Professor, Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, resigned from his position as Middle East Fellow fothe Carter Center, a position he had held since 1983. For a decade they worked closely on Middle Easter Issues. In his resignation letter, to Carter, Stein wrote that he found the book “replete with factual errors, copies materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.”

Stein’s scholarly articles have focused on American foreign policy, European views of the Middle East, the origins of modern Israel, Palestininan social and political history, the Arab-Israeli negotiating process, Israel and the Arab world, and modern Arab politics.

Admission Free. For reservations, please contact Program Director Anita Schmidt at (310) 481-3243.

Further information on Stein’s professional background is here. It should be an informative presentation.

Previously on JCI: Carter’s Maps: Worse Than Plagiarism; Carter Map Update; Carter Sinks Even Further; Jimmy Carter’s Disingenuous Diplomacy; The World According to Jimmy Carter.