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Building a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine
Schedule of Readings & Assignments
(SOCY3367.01)
Fall, 2015
Summer Pre-Reading:
Eve Spangler, Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation and Human Rights in the
Conflict. Sense Publishers, 2015.
Paper Due: September 2
In reading this book, what surprised you the most? What surprised you the least?
How would you begin a conversation with your parents or roommates about the
topic of Israel/Palestine. Which of the multiple frameworks offered in the book was
the most valuable in talking to people who know almost nothing about the issue (but
who are interested in what you’re doing)? Which of the multiple frameworks was
most useful for talking with people who already something about this topic (e.g. a
Middle East and Islamic Civilization major).
How do the arguments in this book connect (or fail to connect) with theories from
other classes in other disciplines. Could you imagine using some of the information
from this book in a history or political science or economics or sociology class?
What were you most skeptical about (I know – since I an the author, this may seem
like a difficult question to answer)… was there material here that flatly contradicted
other information you have been given in courses or anywhere in the academic
realm?
If you had to describe this book in an “elevator talk” to someone else, what would
you say?
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Building a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine
Schedule of Readings & Assignments
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Fall, 2015
September 2-9, 2015: The Human Rights Framework
September 2: The Basic Human Rights Framework
United Nations. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. At:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
United Nations. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 1966.
At:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspx
Mary Ann Glendon, "Knowing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Notre
Dame Law Review 73.5 (1998): 1153-1176. On-line reserves.
Michael Ignatieff. "The Attack on Human Rights" Foreign Affairs, 80(6), 2001, p. 102116. On-line reserves
Mahmoud Mamdani “Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? Humanitarian
Intervention and its Critics,” PDF - please google the author and title.
Adulaziz Sachedina, “The Clash of Universalisms: Religious and Secular in Human
Rights,” Hedgehog Review, Fall, 2007, at:
http://www.consciencelaws.org/issues-ethical/ethical099.html
Anat Biletzki, “The Sacred and Humane,” The New York Times, July 17, 2011 at:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/the-sacred-and-the-humane/
Rabbi Alana Suskin, “Why Religion is Better than Secular Ethics for Human Rights,”
Huffington Post, july 23, 2011 at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-alana-suskin/rabbis-for-human-rightsr_b_906351.html
Assignment Due: Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Briefly formulate your own conclusions (using the assigned readings) on the
following issues:
a) Does the basic human rights framework, as represented in the 2 U.N.
documents, do a good job in establishing the social contract that should
prevail among nations and between nations and their citizens? Is the
framework too ambitious? And, if so, what rights would you omit? Is the
framework lacking – and, if so, what kinds of provisions would you add?
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b) Using Leontieff, Glendon and Mamdani, would you defend the human rights
framework as truly universal? Might it be merely “neo-colonialism in a
tux?”
c) Using Sachedina, Biletzki and Suskin, would you argue that human rights
doctrine requires religious grounding? Would secular humanism be
sufficient to ground human rights doctrine?
September 9, 2015: Applying the HR framework to Palestine
Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Geneva
Convention IV). Geneva, 12 August 1949
Susan Akram, “Palestinian Refugees and their Legal Status,” in Journal of Palestine
Studies (special issue on refugees, Summer, 2011), at:
http://www.palestinestudies.org/entiresite.aspx?cx=014790268562520380346%3Ao93wtf1uvgc&cof=FORID
%3A11&q=Susan+Akram&sa=Search&siteurl=www.palestinestudies.org%2Fentiresite.aspx%3Fcx%3D014790268562520380346%253Ao93wtf1uvgc
%26cof%3DFORID%253A11%26q%3DSusan%2BAkram&ref=www.palestinestudies.org%2Fjournals.aspx%3Fhref%3Dcurrent%26jid%3D1&ss=
Eitan Diamond “Before the Abyss: Reshaping International Humanitarian Law to Suit the
Ends of Power,” Israel Law Review 2010, 43:2.
At:
http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/pirsumim.asp?cat=2275&in=735 (you will need to scroll down
and click on the summary to see the whole article)
Avishai Margalit and Michael Walzer, “Israel: Civilians and Combatants,” New York
Review of Books, May 14, 2009, 56:8
at:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/may/14/israel-civilians-combatants/
Jeff Halper, The Second Battle of Gaza: Israel’s Undermining of International Law,”
Pulse, (political weblog)
at:
http://icahdusa.org/2010/03/the-second-battle-of-gaza/
Muhammad Ali Khalidi, “The Most Moral Army in the World? The New ‘Ethical Code’
of the Israeli Military and the War on Gaza,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Spring 2010
(39:3.
at:
http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10705&jid=1&href=fulltext’’
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Schedule of Readings & Assignments
(SOCY3367.01)
Fall, 2015
Zanotti, Jim. “The Palestinians: Background and U.S. Relations,” Congressional
Research Service, August, 2012 at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL34074.pdf
Assignment: due September 16, 2015
The Congressional Research Service provides briefing papers for serious but
uninformed U.S. representatives and senators. Jim Zanotti’s work represents the
most recent summary of the U.S. position on Palestine that a freshman
congressperson might receive. It is accurate as far as it goes, but very incomplete.
Using the readings from this summer and the past weeks, write a 3-5 page
addendum that would balance the work.
BOSTON COLLEGE
Building a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine
Schedule of Readings & Assignments
(SOCY3367.01)
Fall, 2015
September 16 – 23: Historical Narratives
September 16: The Concept of Nationalism in Modern Jewish and Palestinian History
Nur Masalha Expulsion of the Palestians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political
Thought (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).
Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal, “The Revolt of 1834 and the Making of Modern
Palestine,” The Palestinian People (Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 1-37.
Ghada Karmi, Married to Another Man (Pluto Press, 2007), Introduction, Chapter 1.
Tom Segev, “Facing Herzl’s statue,” in Elvis in Jerusalem (Henry Holt, 2001), pp. 1-46.
Saleh Abdel Jawad “The Arab and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War,” in Robert
Rotberg, ed. Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History’s Double Helix
(Indiana University Press, 2006) pp. 72-114.
Natasha Gill, “The Original ‘No”: Why the Arabs Rejected Zionism, and Why it
Matters,” in Middle East Policy Council Commentary June 19, 2013 at:
http://www.mepc.org/articles-commentary/commentary/original-no-why-arabs-rejectedzionism-and-why-it-matters
September 23: Work will be done in 4 Teams
Israeli Self Defense Readings
Benny Morris “Survival of the Fittest” an interview with Ari Shavit, originally in
Ha’aretz, at: http://www.haaretz.com/survival-of-the-fittest-1.61345
Ari Shavit “Lydda, 1948: A City, A Massacre and the Middles East Today,” New Yorker,
October 21, 2013, at:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/21/131021fa_fact_shavit
Ephraim Sneh “Countdown: Former Minister Ephraim Sneh fears another Holocaust,” an
interview with Ari Shavit at:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/ari-shavit-s-countdown-former-ministerephraim-sneh-fears-another-hiroshima.premium-1.460280
Shlomo Avineri “Zionism does not need propaganda,” Ha’aretz, May 23, 2011 at:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/zionism-does-not-need-propaganda1.363443
Uri Avnery “Rest Come to the Weary,” Gush Shalom, April 4, 2009 at:
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1239519715/
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“7 Jewish Children,” Caryl Churchill (a 9 minute play) at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lYAYnJ6HZ5M#!
Genocide/ Apartheid Readings
For a definiton of apartheid see: “International Convention for the Suppression and
Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid,” at:
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ha/cspca/cspca.html
John Dugard “Apartheid and Occupation under International Law,” Hisham B. Sharabi
Memorial Lecture, Jerusalem Fund, March 30, 2009, Washington, D.C.
Video of talk at:
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/5191/pid/3584.
Transcript of talk at:
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/5240/pid/897
Karine MacAllister, “Applicability of the Crime of Apartheid to Israel,” at:
http://www.badil.org/en/al-majdal/item/72-applicability-of-the-crime-of-apartheid-toisrael
For a definition of genocide, see:
http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htm
Gideon Levy “The Holocaust and the Israeli Occupation Cannot Be Compared,”
Ha’aretz, April 19, 2009 at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079368.html
Ethnic Cleansing, Sociocide Readings
Ilan Pappe “The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” in Journal of Palestine Studies
(special issue on refugees, Summer, 2011) at:
http://palestine-studies.org/focus.aspx
Saleh Abdel Jawad, “War By Other Means,” from al-Ahram Weekly, 1998, at
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/1948/359_salh.htm
Robert Fisk, “Fighting Talk: the New Propaganda,” from The Independent, June 21, 2010
at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/fighting-talk-the-newpropaganda-2006001.html
Hassan Khader “The Nakba Narrative,” Al Hayat, May 24, 209 at:
http://www.americantaskforce.org/daily_news_article/2009/06/01/1243828800_2
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Assignment Due: September 23
Class Presentation as part of one of four teams: Israeli self-defense, genocide,
apartheid, ethnic cleansing/sociocide.
Assignment Due: September 30
We are studying four major frameworks for understanding the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict: Israeli self-defense, apartheid, genocide, and ethnic cleansing/sociocide.
We will evaluate each in turn. Please evaluate the adequacy of each framework in
light to the historical material you have read. What facts does each framework
emphasize? What facts does it obscure? Are they based mostly on analysis or on
metaphor? How adequate are they to organize a master narrative? In light of this
which framework would you chose to explain the conflict to your
roommates. Bear in mind that you can chose elements from all of these
narratives.
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Building a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine
Schedule of Readings & Assignments
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Fall, 2015
October 17 – October 14: Conflict Management or State Formation?
October 7: Models of Conflict Resolution
Nadim Rouhana, “From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation,” at
sfpeace.org/files/reconciliation_en.doc.
Michelle Gawerc “Peacebuilding: Theoretical and Concrete Perspectives,” Peace &
Change 31(4) 2006:435-478.
Islah Jad “The NGOisation of Arab Women’s movements,” at
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Islah+Jad+%2B+Ngoization&btnG=Google+S
earch
Assignment due: October 14
How could Rouhana’s call for awareness of history, justice, and power be reconciled
with Lederach’s complex alignment among grass roots, civil society, and state
actors? For example, who would be most likely to keep track of history? Would
grass roots involvement make it more likely that power and justice were yoked
together? Does the conflict management perspective contribute much understanding
the Israeli/Palestinian situation?
October 14: The One State/Two State Debate
Tony Klug “Two States for Two Peoples: Solution or Illusion?” in Open Democracy
December 21, 2008, at: http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/two-states-for-twopeoples-solution-or-illusion
Fred Schlomka, “Israel’s ‘Two Roads’ Solution” Dossiers Palestina at:
http://www.flw.ugent.be/cie/Palestina/palestina447.htm
Henry Siegman, “Imposing Middle East Peace,” The Nation, 25 January, 2010 at:
http://www.thenation.com/article/imposing-middle-east-peace
Meron Benvenisti, “Moot Argument,” in Ha’aretz, August 21, 2008
at:http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/moot-argument-1.252459
Omar Barghouti, et. al., “The One State Declaration,” at: http://www.1948.org.uk/theone-state-solution/
Diana Buttu, “A United Democratic Nation with Equal Rights for all,” Boston Globe, 29
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February 2012 at: http://articles.boston.com/2012-0229/opinion/31106871_1_palestinian-territories-equal-rights-gaza-strip
Sari Makdeesi, “Forget the Two State Solution. Israelis and Palestinians must Share the
Land. Equally.” Los Angeles Times op. ed. May 11, 2008 at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-makdisi112008may11,0,2553769.story
Jeff Halper, “You Can’t Get There from Here: The Need for ‘Collapse with Agency’”
ICAHD at: http://www.icahd.org/node/270
Noam Sheizaf, “One or Two States? The Status Quo is Israel’s Rational Choice,” +972
at: http://972mag.com/one-or-two-states-the-status-quo-is-israels-rational-thirdchoice/39169/.
Assignment Due: October 21
It is unlikely that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will be resolved in
the absence of a political solution – either one (perhaps bi-national) or two states. If
we were to adopt the position of the poet Yitzak La’or, that any of these solutions is
acceptable and that the most desirable is “whichever one comes first,” which
solution would you advocate? Using course readings succinctly summarize the case
for and against the one state solution; the case for and against the two state solution.
Which is more consistent with the human rights framework you developed in the first
paper? Given Sheizaf’s contention that what Israelis really want is to maintain the
status quo, what process or events might lead them to change their minds?
(October 23- 30: Points Drive)
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November 4-11: The Economic Future
November 4: The Palestinian Economy: Historical Perspectives, Future Prospects
(Alexander Scholch, Palestine in Transformation, 1856-1882: Studies in Social,
Economic and Political Development (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1993) pp. 77-168.)
The Rand Palestinian Study Team, Building a Successful Palestinian State (Rand
Corporation, 2005), Chapter 1 (Introduction), Chapter 5 (Economics), Chapter 6 (Water),
Chapter 7 (Health), Chapter 8 (Education), Chapter 9 (Conclusion).
“Tell me again: Who made the desert bloom?”
http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/03/palestinians-made-the-desertbloom.html
Bernard Avishai “The Economics of Occupation,” in Harper’s October, 2009 at:
www.aim-palestine.com/harpers economics of occupation (bernard avishai) oct09.pdf
Naomi Zeveloff, “The Five Star Occupation,” Guernica, 15 August, 2012 at:
http://bit.ly/Five-Star-Occupation
Sara Roy. “De-Development Revisited: Palestinian Economy and Society Since Oslo,”
Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3, 64-82. April, 1999.
Leila Farsakh, Palestinian Labor Migration, at:
http://video.csupomona.edu/HotTalk/LeilaFarsakh-035.asx and also
Raja Khalidi and Sobhi Samour, “Neoliberalism as Liberation: The Statehood Program
and the Remaking of the Palestinian National Movement,” Journal of Palestine Studies,
40:2 (Winter, 2011), 6ff.
http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10924&jid=1&href=fulltext
November 11: The Israeli Economy
Thomas Friedman, “The Real Palestinian Revolution,” New York Times, June 30, 2010:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/opinion/30friedman.html?src=mv
Eran Efrati, “An Israeli Soldier’s Story,” Youtube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93hqlmrZKd8
Interview with Yotam Feldman, filmmaker of The Lab by Shir Hever, at:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=7
4&jumival=10220.
Jodi Rudorem (NYTimes correspondent) In West Bank Settlements, Israeli Jobs a
Double-Edged Sword,” New York Times, February 11, 2014 at:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/palestinians-work-in-west-bankfor-israeli-industry-they-oppose.html
Thomas Friedman, “Israel Discovers Oil,” NYTimes op. ed. June 10, 2007 at:
http://cmsprod.bgu.ac.il/Eng/engn/Projects/TomFriedman.htm
Naomi Klein, “Gaza: Not Just a Prison, A Laboratory,” in Common Dreams,
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/15/1901/
http://972mag.com/whats-behind-israels-biggest-economic-boom-theoccupation/81038/
Amira Hass, “Israel Knows that Peace Just Doesn’t Pay,” Ha’aretz, May 11, 2009 at:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084656.html
Shlomo Swirski, “The Cost of Occupation,” at:
http://www.adva.org/UserFiles/File/costofoccupation2008fullenglish(1).pdf
Omar Barghouti, “Boycotting Israeli Apartheid, Evoking South Africa’s Legacy,” in
State of Nature, Spring, 2006 at:
http://www.stateofnature.org/boycottingIsraeliApartheid.html
Lawrence Davidson and Islah Jad, “Academic Boycott as International Solidarity: The
Academic Boycott of Israel,” in Radical Philosophy, May/June, 2004 and at:
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&editorial_id=16030
Assignment Due: November 11
If you were a consultant for the European Union or the Quartet, what advice would
you give them about healthy economic development in Israel/Palestine? Please be
sure to draw on the reading materials in constructing your answer. Is it possible, as
Netanyahu proclaims (and Fayyad hints), for Israelis to offer Palestinians a purely
“economic peace” (and, implicitly, prosperity) without resolving the political issues
of statelessness?
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Building a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine
Schedule of Readings & Assignments
(SOCY3367.01)
Fall, 2015
November 18: Instruments for Social Change
Eve Spangler, Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation and Human Rights in the
Conflict (Sense Publishers, 2015), please review Chapter 11.
Preliminary Discussion of Post-Trip projects: See final assignment
December 2-9: Team Reports on Religion, Popular Culture, Health Care,
Comparative Conflict Resolution:
Religion Readings:
Sara Roy, “A Jewish Plea,” Counterpunch, April 7/8, 2007 at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/roy04072007.html
Avraham Burg, “Holocaust’s Unholy Hold,”
Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2008 at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-burg162008nov16,0,4227786.story
(If you want to compare Burg’s view to more conventional Israeli views, see the article
“Jewish and Democratic,” in The Economist
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12459713)
Marc Ellis “The On-going Nakba and the Jewish Conscience,” Address to the Palestine
Center, May 27,2010 at:
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/ContentDetails/i/12975/pid/897
Nurit Peled-Elhanan “Let our Children Live,” Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/01/29/let-our-children-live/
Bassam Aramin “A Palestinian Bar Mitvah,” at:
http://karmalised.com/?p=3318#more-3318
J. Chaitan “Here’s the Separation Wall: Political Tourism in the Holy Land,” Conflict
Resolution Quarterly, 2011: 29(1):39-63, at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/crq.21036/abstract
The Church of Scotland, report “The Land of Abraham,” May, 2013 at:
http://www.sizers.org/inheritanceofabraham.pdf
Health Readings
WHO “Health Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” at:
http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/885BD85F892778F28525772700503A4B
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Gordon, Neve, “Palestine Health Care: Neglect and Crisis,” Palestine-Israel Journal of
Politics, Economics and Culture, 4(2)1997at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7924199.stm/
“Palestine Health Care ‘Ailing’” The Lancet, March 2009,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7924199.stm;
‘Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 2012” The Lancet, at:
http://www.thelancet.com/health-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-2012
Habib, Rima, Karin Seyfert and Safa Hjeij“Health and living conditions of Palestinian
refugees residing in camps and gatherings in Lebanon: a cross-sectional survey”
The Lancet at:
http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/palestine2012/palestine2012-1.pdf
Murthy, Sharmila, Mark Williams and Elisha Baskin, “The Human Right to Water in
Israel:A Case Study of the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev,” Israel Law
Review, 46(1) 2-13: 25-59, at:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centersprograms/centers/carr/programs/RightToWater/HumanRight2WaterIsrael_SMurthy_MW
illiams_EBaskin.pdf
Popular Culture and Arts Readings
Eve Spangler, “No Exit: Palestinian Film in the Shadow of the Nakba,” pp. 205-213 in
John Michalczyck and Raymond Helmick, eds. Through a Lens Darkly: Films of
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Atrocities (New York: Peter Lang, 2013).
Rafif Ziadeh “We Teach Life, Sir” “Shades of Anger”
Remi Kanazi, “This Divestment Bill Hurts My Feelings,” “Normalize This”
Ari Lesser “Boycot Israel”
Film/Authors TBA
Comparative Conflict Resolution Readings
Case Studies: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Ireland - TBA
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Trip Readings and Project Prospectus:
Day 1: Jerusalem
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), fact sheets on Area C,
Hebron, Jerusalem, Gaza at: http://www.ochaopt.org/reports.aspx?id=103&page=1
Day 2: Bethlehem
PTSD work of the Beit Sahour YMCA at:
http://www.beitsahourmunicipality.com/english/botton6/ngo3.htm
Day 3: Negev
Roy Arad, “Unlike most villages, some Bedouin in Israel’s Negev do want to move,”
Ha’aretz, September 20, 2011 at: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/unlikemost-villages-some-bedouin-in-the-israel-s-negev-do-want-to-move-1.385422
Oren Yiftachel, “Planning and Social Control: Exploring the Dark Side,” Journal of
Planning Literature Vol. 12 (May 9998) 395-406.
Day 4: Hebron
Selma Dabbagh “Down the Market”
www.selmadabbagh.com/.../Selma_Dabbagh_Down_The_Market.pdf
Day 5: Ramallah
Mahmoud Darwish, “Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982” at:
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/bflr.2002.15.23?journalCode=bflr
Day 6: Nabi Saleh
Ben Ehrenreich “Is this where the Third Intifada will start?” New York Times, March 15,
2013 at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/is-this-where-the-third-intifadawill-start.html?_r=0
Day 7: Nazareth
Mohammad Zeidan Stripping Citizenship: The Impact of the Citizenship Law
Amendments on Palestinian Families in Israel, Arab Association for Human Rights,
Research and Reporting Program, 2012.
Day 8: Haifa
Ghassan Kanafani: ‘Returning to Haifa,” in Palestine’s Children (London, Lynn Riener
Publishers, 200) 149-196.
Day 9: Jaffa
Sami Abu Shehadeh and Fadi Shbaytah “Jaffa: fromi eminence to ethnic cleansing,”
Electronic Intifada, February 26, 2009 at: http://electronicintifada.net/people/sami-abushehadeh
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Day 10: Tel Aviv
Zochrot (Remembrance) “Testimonies of Yerachmiel Kahanovich, Yakoub Odeh, Karen
Tzarfaty” at: http://zochrot.org/en/top/
Adalah “Discriminatory Laws in Israel,” at: http://adalah.org/eng/Israeli-DiscriminatoryLaw-Database
Final Project Prospectus – due the first week of second semester
Please complete your prospectus for the project you would like to accomplish now
that you are back home after our field trip.
Describe the project – what do you plan to do?
What are the intellectual foundations of your project – i.e. what questions are you
trying to answer?
Who is the audience for your project – i.e. with whom are you dialoguing?
Who is the intended beneficiary of your project?
How will you know if the project is successful – what are your measures of success?
In what ways might this project be a prototype for your further engagement in
“making history” (as distinct from simply making a living)?
What is the place of your project in the world – i.e. if we consider legislation and
regulation (law), market incentives (economics), people-to-people initiatives
including artistic ones (grass roots action), ngo development (civil society), and faith
based initiatives (religion) as the principle instruments for constructing just
societies, where does your project fit on this map and how could it link to other
projects that share your values?
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