Israeli scholar, journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi will discuss the Middle East conflict in a free public presentation at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Textor 102, Ithaca College.

Born and raised in New York, Halevi moved to Israel in 1982. He is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a center-right think tank in Jerusalem. Active in many Middle East reconciliation efforts, he chairs Open House, an Arab-Jewish educational project in the mixed Arab and Jewish working-class town of Ramle, and he was a founder of the now-defunct Israeli-Palestinian Media Forum, which brought together journalists from both communities.

Halevi is a contributing editor and Israel correspondent for the New Republic and has published regularly on the op-ed pages of major U.S. newspapers. He is the author of two books, "Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: An American Story" and "At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land."

The 1983 documentary film "Kaddish" -- which focuses on Halevi's relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor -- was named by the "Village Voice" as one of the 10 best films of the year.