ONLINE: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back a century or more, depending on where you start the story. And those dueling narratives form the basis of this course. Narratives often flatten reality when we try to tell a story, which changes over time. Over the duration of this course, we will look at how the competing narratives developed over time: what Jews and Arabs of Palestine thought about their own national movement and that of the other at different points in the history of the conflict. We will start with the building blocks of national identity, then follow the conflict through the British mandate period, the era of Arab-Israeli wars, the localization of the conflict through the two intifadas, the disengagement from Gaza and, finally, the frequent eruptions of violence over the past two decades. | Lecture + Q&A.
Max enrollment: 24.
