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Speakers: Edwin Black, Award-winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative author; Dr. Haim Shaked, Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami Title: "Roots of an Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust and its Lasting Effects" Location: Fordham University, New York Date: January 31, 2013 Description: Edwin Black speaks about how the Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Adolph Hitler, resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the expulsion of the Iraqi Jewish community and approximately a million Jews across the Arab world. He asserts that the Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance during the Holocaust.