Interested in the foundations of U.S. policy in the Middle East? Join the Tufts New Initiative for Middle East Peace in a discussion with Irene Gendzier, professor emerita in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. She will discuss some of the major findings of her book: Dying to Forget, Oil, Power, Palestine and the Foundations of US Policy in the Middle East (Columbia U Press, 2015, 2016), that deal with the foundations of US policy in the events surrounding the struggle over Palestine and the emergence of the state of Israel.