Between 12-14 June 2017, Academic Head of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the MDC, Dr. Itamar Radai, attended the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies held at Brandeis University. On 12 June, Dr. Radai presented a paper entitled, "al-Madaniyyat: An Alternative Civil Agenda for the Arab Citizens" as part of a panel entitled, "The Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel: Between Political Divergence and Civil Convergence."