Dr. Jerome Segal is a leading expert on Israeli-Palestinian relations and was one of the first American Jews to meet with the leadership of the PLO. He is the author of Creating the Palestinian State: A Strategy for Peace, and Agency and Alienation. His numerous articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other national publications. Segal also works with the Center for International Security Studies at Maryland, where he is Director of the Jerusalem Project, which has tested the attitudes of Israeli Jews and Palestinians about Jerusalem in order to identify options for resolving the city's final status. His CISSM monographs on that subject, The Status of Jerusalem in the Eyes of Israeli Jews, The Status of Jerusalem in the Eyes of Palestinians, and Is Jerusalem Negotiable? have been revised and published as Negotiating Jerusalem (SUNY Press 2000) with co-authors Elihu Katz, Shlomit Levy, and Nader Said. His book, Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living (1999) received national acclaim. His most recent book, Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible (2007), has been hailed a groundbreaking work.