 Joan Peters is the author of the prize winning book, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL: THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-JEWISH CONFLICT OVER PALESTINE, which has won the National Jewish Book Award. FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL is in current demand and is in use as a textbook in the United States and in Israel . This monumental and fascinating book, the product of seven years of original research, will forever change the terms of the debate about the conflicting claims of the Arabs and the Jews in the Middle East . Ms. Peters served as White House Adviser on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the Carter Administration. She has lectured at the U.S. State Department and at foreign policy institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Peters has addressed many thousands of community events, as well as colleges and universities around the U.S. as well as in England , Canada and Israel . She has appeared on more than two hundred radio and television discussion or talk shows and has participated in numerous symposia here and abroad about the Arab-Jewish relations and related subjects. Ms. Peters has conducted many fact-finding missions to Israel , Syria , Egypt , and other areas. She produced a series of CBS News documentaries about the wars in the Middle East and has acted as a foreign affairs commentator on Public Television. She has contributed to Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic , The New Leader, and other periodicals. Ms. Peters currently ís an advisor, trustee and Executive Committee member of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy based in New York .
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