The Middle East is a complicated zone of enduring political conflict and violence between Palestinians and Israelis. This course explores the thick and intertwined threads of identity, history, collective memory, culture, trauma, and loss – themes that bind Palestinians and Israelis together and often threaten to tear them apart.
Cultures of Israel and Palestine
Contributor(s): Caryn Aviv, PhD in Sociology/Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago; Associate Director of Judaism Your WayTopics(s): Conflict and Peacemaking, Palestinians, Politics, Society
Date: September 1, 2011
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