Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

About this book

The Arab-Israeli conflict has become a touchstone of international politics and a flash point on college campuses. And yet, how do faculty teach such a contentious topic in class? Taught not only in international relations, peace and conflict resolution, politics and history, and Israel and Middle Eastern studies courses but also in literature, sociology, urban planning, law, cinema, fine art, and business—the subject guarantees wide interest among students. Faculty are challenged to deal with the subject's complexity and the sensitive dynamics it creates. The result is anxiety as they approach the task and a need for guidance. Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict edited by Rachel S. Harris is the first book designed to meet this need. Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict brings together thirty-nine essays from experienced educators who reflect on the challenges of engaging students in college classrooms. Divided into seven sections, these personal essays cover a broad range of institutional and geographical settings, as well as a wide number of academic disciplines. Some of the topics include using graphic novels and memoirs to wrestle with the complexities of Israel/Palestine, the perils of misreading in the creative writing classroom as border crossing, teaching competing narratives through film, using food to teach the Arab-Israeli conflict, and teaching the subject in the community college classroom. Each essay includes suggestions for class activities, resources, and approaches to effective teaching. Whether planning a new course or searching for new teaching ideas, this collection is an indispensable compendium for anyone teaching the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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Index

Page numbers in italics indicate maps or tables. Titles of specific works will be found under the author’s name. Surnames beginning with Al- or El- are alphabetized under A or E, but terms beginning with al- or el- are alphabetized under the main portion of the word (al-Qaeda, for instance, is under Q).
1948 War (War of Independence), xv, 8; Cairo University, influencing Israel studies at, 229; comparative literature, teaching empathy through, 101; competing narratives of, 142; in contrapuntal teaching of Israeli and Palestinian literatures, 323; dramatic Palestinian and Israeli presentations of, 82–83; fictional literature in interdisciplinary studies, using, 110–11; map of Israel/Palestine, xxx; terminology for, 32, 109, 241; U.S. Naval Academy, teaching narratives of war at, 128–32. See also Nakba
1956–57 (Sinai Campaign / Suez War), 8, 9, 229
1967 War (Six-Day War; June War; Naksa), 9–10; Arab conclusions drawn from, 9–10, 13; Cairo University, influencing Israel studies at, 229; competing narratives of, 142; contrapuntal reading on, 324–28; India and, 212; Israeli and Palestinian poetry on, 157–58, 168; Kanafani’s “Returning to Haifa” and, 102; map of Israel/Palestine, xxx; West Bank, interaction of Israeli state with, 350
1969–70 War of Attrition, 229
1973 War (Yom Kippur War; October War), 11, 212, 229
1982 War (Lebanon War), 129, 136–37, 158, 159–60, 194, 229, 319
1991 Gulf War (first), 229
2014 Israel-Gaza conflict (Miv’tzah Tzuk Eitan or Operation Protective Edge; Gaza War), 39, 57n2, 77–78, 293
Abbas, Hiam, xiii
Abbas, Mahmoud, 312
Abbas II (Khedive), 227
Abboud, Fadi, 277
Abdelrazaq, Leila, Baddawi (2015), 30, 31, 34
Abdul Hamid II (Sultan), 208
Abramson, Glenda: The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories (1996), 296; The Writing of Yehuda Amichai (1989), 159
absolutes and “sides,” student need for, 22–23, 24, 53, 100, 261, 283
Abu-Assad, Hany, xiii, 143, 296
Abu Eid, Muna, 170
Abu Hanna, Hanna, “The Desire’s Squint,” 170
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Maps
  9. Introduction to the History of the Region and the Conflict
  10. Teaching Skills, Facing Challenges: What Happens in the Classroom?
  11. Empathy, Access, Language, and Education: Learning to See the Other
  12. Competing Interpretations and Multiple Narratives: Teaching Diversity
  13. History, Politics, and Religion: Putting the Class(room) in Context
  14. The Personal and the Political: When the Outside World Intrudes on the Sacred Class Space
  15. Thinking Differently and Creating New Paradigms: Teaching Israel/Palestine without Repeating History
  16. Conclusion: How What We Teach Changes (and Changes Us)
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Annotated Filmography
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index