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Topic 8: Reading: March 29

June 22 Lecture and readings from Shared Histories

Sela, Avraham. “Israeli historiography of the 1948 War,” 205-219.
Yahya, Adel. “The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1947-48,” 220-227. Discussion between Avraham Sela and Adel Yahya, 228-250.

Shared Histories: Ch 6: The beginnings of Jewish settlement and Zionism, to World War I
Shared Histories: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue, edited by Paul Scham, et al., Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central,

Primary Sources:

June 23: Discussion of following articles (to be divided among the class):

Khalidi, Rashid. “The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure,” in Rogan, E., & Shlaim, A. (Eds.). (2007). The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948(Cambridge Middle East Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp. 12-36.
Morris, Benny. “Revisiting the Palestinian exodus of 1948,” in Rogan, E., & Shlaim, A. (Eds.). (2007). The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948(Cambridge Middle East Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp. 37-59.

Khalidi, Rashid. “The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure,”
In: Rogan, E., & Shlaim, A. (Eds.). (2007). The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp. 12-36
Morris, Benny. “Revisiting the Palestinian exodus of 1948,”
in Rogan, E., & Shlaim, A. (Eds.). (2007). The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp. 37-59

Documentary series on Al-Nakba from Al-Jazeera English.