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JWST 228 - Representing the Arab-Israeli Conflict


Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
After presenting basic background to this conflict, this course will focus on the ways it is mediated through culture. Issues of collective and personal memory, trauma, masculinity and women’s resistance or participation in the conflict will receive special attention through study of novels and short stories by Emile Habibi, Amos Oz, David Grossman and Orly Castel-Bloom, and the films Avanti Popolo, The Syrian Bride, The Band’s Visit and Waltz with Bashir.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: A. Ofengenden


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