JWST 4670 Israeli-Jewish and Arab-Israeli Peace through Literature and Film

JWST 4670 Israeli-Jewish and Arab-Israeli Peace through Literature and Film
Israeli-Jewish and Arab-Israeli Peace through Literature and Film
"This course explores major themes in Israeli cinema and fiction in the context of the social and historical backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the painful emergence of a new Jewish-Israeli identity in the shadow of the Holocaust and unremitting warfare. Examining in depth a number of Hebrew and Arabic films, short stories and novels, all in English translation, the course situates them in the evolution of Israeli cinema and fiction. prereg: JWST 3220 Arab-Israeli Conflict"
credit hours: 3