NEWTON in Focus: Palestine-Israel

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NEWTON in Focus: Palestine-Israel

By : Anthony Alessandrini, Bassam Haddad, and Suzanne Saleeby

This week we highlight various NEWTON texts relevant to the study of Palestine-Israel. The authors of these texts write from a wide range of perspectives, disciplinary approaches, and political frameworks. We encourage you to integrate these texts into your curricula in the coming semesters.

If you wish to recommend a book or peer-reviewed article for a feature in NEWTON—whether on Palestine-Israel or on any other topics relevant to the region—please email us at reviews@jadaliyya.com. To stay up to date with ongoing discussions by scholars and instructors in the field, sign up for Jadaliyya’s Pedagogy Section.

Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani, Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures

Selma Dabbagh, Out of It: A Novel

Lori Allen, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine

Maya Mikdashi, "What Is Settler Colonialism?" and Sherene Seikaly, "Return to the Present"

Joel Beinin, "Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine"

Rashid Khalidi, Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

Rachel Beckles Willson, Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West

Ilana Feldman, "The Challenge of Categories: UNRWA and the Definition of a `Palestine Refugee`"

Na`eem Jeenah, Pretending Democracy: Israel, An Ethnocratic State

Amahl Bishara, Back Stories, US News Production and Palestinian Politics

Elisabeth Weber, Living Together: Jacques Derrida`s Communities of Violence and Peace

Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir, Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel

Jens Hanssen, "Kafka and Arabs"

Norman Finkelstein, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End

Khaled Furani, Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry

Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine

Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination, and Democracy

Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel

Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation

Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair, Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel

Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies

Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced

Wendy Pearlman, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement

Belén Fernández, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work

Steven Salaita, Israel`s Dead Soul

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