American-born Michael Oren is a “brilliant, lucid” (Washington Post Book World) Middle East historian and was Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He is the author of the bestselling Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. A former visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Tel Aviv, and Hebrew Universities, Oren has been a frequent commentator across a wide spectrum of media outlets. This year he was elected to Israel’s national legislature, the Knesset. Ally tells the story of Oren’s unique trajectory and how it has enabled him to bridge the gaps between the two countries he loves. 

In conversation with Daniel Pipes, president of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum