Dr. Akram Khater, associate professor of history at North Carolina State University, will be the featured speaker at the 2001 Kenelm Foundation-Campbell University Government, History, and Justice Seminar.

The seminar event will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines. Khater will discuss “The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.”

Khater, a native of Lebanon, has been at NCSU since 1994. He earned a B.S. degree in electronics engineering from California Polytechnic State University and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively. Before coming to Raleigh, he taught at Ball State University in Indiana.

Khater’s books include “Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861-1921.” His next book will be “A Reader of Primary Sources for the History of the Middle East.” He has also contributed to “The World and Its People,” a high school textbook, and has published many articles and reviews. He has made conference presentations throughout the United States and has been particularly active in bringing his expertise to audiences at North Carolina colleges, high schools and churches.

Khater has been awarded a number of teaching accolades and grants during his tenure at N.C. State and has obtained fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation and ITT. His professional affiliations include the Lebanese Studies Association (president emeritus), the Middle East Studies Association, the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, the Triangle Islamic Studies Group and the Mediterranean Studies Group. He is associate editor of History Computer Review.

The Kenelm Foundation-Campbell University Seminar Series is made possible through a bequest by the late Robert Drummond, former director of the Kenelm Foundation in Collingswood, N.J.