If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Gilbert Achcar, professor and political scientist at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, discusses the conflicting narratives of Arabs and the Holocaust and considers their role in today's Middle East dispute. Achcar analyzes Arab responses to Nazism and challenges distortions of the historical record, while making no concessions to anti-Semitism or Holocaust denial. There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with ugly claims and counterclaims: one side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting a tragedy while denying the tragedies of others. The World Beyond the Headlines is a project of the Center for International Studies, which brings scholars, journalists, and world leaders to the University to discuss issues of current global importance. For more information on this event, visit cis.uchicago.edu/events/2010-2011/arabs-and-the-holocaust Information on the entire The World Beyond the Headlines series can be found at cis.uchicago.edu/wbh This program was organized by the University of Chicago Center for International Studies and co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, the International House Global Voices Program, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for Jewish Studies. November 15, 2010

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