Guest speakers and panelists as of February 4, 2005 Community Forum on issues of "Peace and Reconciliation in the Middle East" South Texas School of Christian Studies 7000 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas Saturday, February 19, 9 to 5 p.m. Sarwat Husain, Chair, Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Antonio, "American Muslims, Images and Perceptions before and after 9/11" Keren Batiyov, Co-chair of the Harrisburg, PA Middle East Justice and Peace Group and an active member of the South Central Pennsylvania Arab-Jewish Dialogue Group. She spent 2 1/2 weeks in Palestine (Nablus/Balata Refugee Camp) with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) during October, 2004. Rev. Jim Berbiglia, USAF (Colonel) retired, Presbyterian minister/chaplain, Texas Veterans for Peace "The cost of the war to the U. S. military in human terms" Hadi Jawad, Director, Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iraq "Strategies to End the War--what the future will look like in Iraq" Dr. Whitney Bodman, Professor of Comparative Religions, Austin Theological Seminary Mohammad Al-Atar, Director, Palestinians for Peace and Democracy, San Antonio "The Drive for Self-Determination among the Palestinians" Dr. Carolyn Schneider, Prof. Of Theology, Texas Lutheran University "The Many Faces of Religious Extremism" Susan Ives, columnist, San Antonio Express-News, retired Major, U.S. Army "Media Bias in the Coverage of Israel/Palesine" Lynne Canning, Tikkun Community, Santa Fe, New Mexico "Peaceful Responses and Solutions" Rev. David Owen, Unitarian Universalist local minister, "The Many Faces of Religious Extremism" Dick Underhill, Chairperson of Austin, Texas, chapter of Veterans for Peace Brenda Hardt, Chair, Church and Society, United Methodist Church, Texas Conference, trainer in peacemaking and non-violence, member, Fellowship of Reconciliation "How to Change the Status Quo"