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- One or more of the following: excerpts from journalist Eric Black's Parallel
Realities or Mike Shuster's NPR series, The
Mideast: A Century of Conflict. For an even quicker review, you
might want to refer to PBS's nutshell History
of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, an interactive timeline
annotated with Israeli and Palestinian views on the history
of the region, or Vox's "cardstack," "Everything You Need to Know About Israel-Palestine," or Vox's "10-minute history" video, "The Israel-Palestine conflict." (It might also be worth looking at Nation columnist Eric Alterman's "Can We Talk," which ends with a reference to the PRIME Shared History Project, whose textbook can be previewed here and here. Those looking to go deeper still, historically and academically speaking, may wish to read Gilbert Achcar's "The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives" at OpenDemocracy.)
Highly Recommended:
- Edward Said, "Bombs
and Bulldozers" (The Nation 8 & 15 September
1997). Though the occasion for which this piece was written is
long past, its complaint about what Said calls the "bulldozers
of forgetfulness" is still timely (and relevant to Habiby's
novel), as is its reminder that "there was always another
people in Palestine, [and] every village, kibbutz, settlement,
city and town [in Israel] has an Arab history also."
- In a similar vein, see Adina Hoffman’s “What Lies Beneath,” a profile of Jawad Siyam and the politics of archaeology in Israel.
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Selected
online articles originally from The Nation's "Israel
at Fifty" issue
(May 4, 1998): Danny Rubinstein, "Israel
at Fifty" and Edward Said, "An
Orphaned People"
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NPR's Linda
Gradstein on the controversy over a revisionist
history curriculum in Israeli schools (RealAudio file from "All
Things Considered," November 15, 1999).
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The website
for "Give
It To Them," an episode of Public Radio International's This
American Life which first aired in early August 2002.
- In the midst of the 2011 "Arab Spring," Wendell Steavenson wrote a short piece about those exciting but uncertain events for the New Yorker's "Notes and Comments" section. It was entitled (can you guess?) "Pessoptimism." Find out why by clicking that link.
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- "Palestinian Right of Return" (Wikipedia)
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NPR's
Mike Shuster reports on Israeli/Arab
apartheid in Israel (Weekend
Edition Saturday 18 April 1998 [audio in RealMedia format only])
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"The
Lemon Tree," a radio documentary featuring an
Israeli and a Palestianian who both share claim to the
same house. (This feature originally aired on NPR's Fresh
Air, April 24, 1998. It's now available from PRX.)
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NPR's
Jennifer Ludden reports on the impact of the "second"
Palestinian intifadeh (uprising) in the occupied territories on Israel's
Arab citizens: Part
1 | Part
2 (RealAudio files from "All Things Considered," November
21 & 22, 2000)
- In “Bodies
and Borders: An Interview with Ella Shohat”
(Jadaliyya 18 November 2013), Manuela Boatca & Sergio Costa speak with the prominent "Arab Jew" about complications of ethnic identity
- Seth
Ackerman's "Losing
Ground" (pbs.org; originally in Harper's magazine,
December 2001) is a map illustrating Arab and Jewish populations
in Israel/Palestine under a number of historical and projected
scenarios. See also letters critical
of Ackerman's map (from the March 2002 issue), along with his
response to his critics. In the decade and a half since this map was drawn, of course, Palestinians have lost considerably more ground--to Israeli settlements, "security," and outright expropriation.
- "Identity Crisis: The Israeli ID System" (Visualizing Palestine explores Palestinian segregation in Israel and the Occupied Territories)
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