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Drawing on a newly developed theoretical definition of “missed opportunity,” Chances for Peace uses extensive sources in English, Hebrew, and Arabic to systematically measure the potentiality levels of opportunity across some ninety years of attempted negotiations in the Arab-Israeli conflict. With enlightening revelations that defy conventional wisdom, this study provides a balanced account of the most significant attempts to forge peace, initiated by the world’s superpowers, the Arabs (including the Palestinians), and Israel. From Arab-Zionist negotiations at the end of World War I to the subsequent partition, the aftermath of the 1967 War and the Sadat Initiative, and numerous agree...
Israeli history textbooks in the past contained many biases, distortions, and omissions concerning the depiction of Arabs and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Today these misrepresentations are gradually being corrected. This study encourages the depiction of a balanced portrait in all textbooks. By reviewing curricula and textbooks used in the Israeli educational system since the establishment of Israel, the author assesses the impact of Zionist historiography and the Zeitgeist on the portrayal of Arabs in textbooks. The study unravels the biases, distortions, omissions, and stereotypes through the analysis of several major historical events such as the 1948 war, the refugee question, the 1967 war, and the peace process.
The first systematic study of the role of celebrations and public holidays in the Arab Middle East.
In this work, American, Canadian, Palestinian and Israeli contributors discuss the building blocks on the possible path to reconciliation between Jews and Arabs.
This book deals with British involvement in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Encompassing a wide range of topics including Britain's imperial legacy; Palestine, Israel and the Jews; and the contemporary Middle East it examines Britain's role in Egypt, the Levant, the Fertile Crescent, and the Gulf.The twenty scholar/contributors are renowned specialists, and have contributed original research in order that the scope and purview of this work will fill a lacuna in the literature on Britain's role in the region.This book deals with British involvement in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The wide range of topics ...
This study offers us a fascinating survey of the struggle for Arab hegemony between Iraq and Egypt as portrayed by the events surrounding the question of Middle Eastern defence (1945-58), and accentuated by the struggle over the Baghdad Pact.
Distinguished American, Canadian, Palestinian, and Israeli contributors illuminate the building blocks on the possible path from conflict to reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. Arab-Jewish Relations: From Conflict to Resolution? is divided into three parts: Part I looks at the Arab-Jewish conflict, from early Zionism to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; Part II, focuses on Israel's relations with its neighboring countries Syria and Lebanon; and Part III is concerned with the peace process, its dynamics, and the missed opportunities for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. This festschrift honoring Professor Moshe Ma'oza leading scholar who has held positions at Hebrew University, the Middle East Institute, Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the Wilson Center, and the United States Institute of Peaceincludes articles examining the Arab-Jewish conflict over land during the Mandate period, 19th-century Jerusalem, the legacy of the Oslo peace process, and Israeli-Iraqi relati
Analyses the political and socio economic processes that led to the rise and fall of the UAR, as well as the ramifications of this episode on the Arab world. This book tells the story of this important, yet neglected, episode in Arab history. It is based on the archiveal material located in the US, Britain, Canada, Israel, and sources in Arabic.
This book highlights and examines the role of the textbook in legitimising established political and social orders. It analyses the way in which the ‘other’ is presented in school textbooks, focusing on a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and argues that the role of textbooks in developing and maintaining a national identity should be afforded greater critical attention. Textbooks can help form national identities by developing a society’s collective memory; this might involve a historical narrative which may be self-contradictory or even fabricated to a certain extent, including myths, symbols and collective memories that divide “us” from “th...
Analyses the political and socio economic processes that led to the rise and fall of the UAR, as well as the ramifications of this episode on the Arab world. This book tells the story of this important, yet neglected, episode in Arab history. It is based on the archiveal material located in the US, Britain, Canada, Israel, and sources in Arabic.