Anton La Guardia, “War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for a Promised Land”

THURSDAY, 30 November 2023, in the Civic Room at 231 Montgomery St, Montgomery, AL.  We will have a gathering in the Civic Room with social hour and hors d’oeuvres as usual, and Anton will present by Zoom both to those in the Civic Room and those joining us online.   

Reception at 5:30 pm CT, presentation online at 6:15 pm, and question time from 7-7:30 pm.

Webinar via Zoom: login and social time, from 5:45 pm CT. 

Moderator: Maj. Gen. Walter Givhan, (Ret.), ALWAC President.

Anton La Guardia, diplomatic editor of The Economist Newspaper, will join us via Zoom from Washington, DC. Prior to this role, he was the digital editor, deputy foreign editor, and Middle East and Africa editor.

Mr. La Guardia is the author of Holy Land, Unholy War: Israelis and Palestinians, an account of the Middle East conflict, published in America as War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for a Promised Land. He is also the author (with John Peet) of Unhappy union: How the Euro Crisis can be Fixed and the Euro Saved. 

Mr. La Guardia is a frequent broadcaster, both on radio and television.

He was formerly based in Brussels as European Union correspondent and author of the Charlemagne column (2010-14). Prior to this he was defence and security correspondent. Mr. La Guardia joined the newspaper in October 2006, after spending two decades at the Daily Telegraph where he worked as diplomatic editor, Africa correspondent, Middle East correspondent and Ireland correspondent. He started working as an international correspondent in 1986, when he covered the “People Power” revolution in the Philippines as a freelance journalist.

We will have a gathering in the Civic Room with social hour and hors d’oeuvres as usual, and Anton will present by Zoom both to those in the Civic Room and those joining us online.