NELC0675 - Arab/Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
405
Title (text only)
Arab/Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film
Term
2023A
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
405
Section ID
NELC0675405
Course number integer
675
Meeting times
W 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Meeting location
COHN 493
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Eve M Troutt Powell
Description
This course will explore the origins, the history and, most importantly, the literary and cinematic art of the struggle that has endured for a century over the region that some call the Holy Land, some call Eretz Israel and others call Palestine. We will also consider religious motivations and interpretations that have inspired many involved in this conflict as well as the political consequences of world wars that contributed so greatly to the reconfiguration of the Middle East after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and after the revelations of the Holocaust in Western Europe. While we will rely on a textbook for historical grounding. the most significant material we will use to learn this history will be films, novels, and short stories. Can the arts lead us to a different understanding of the lives lived through what seems like unending crisis?
Course number only
0675
Cross listings
CIMS1360405, HIST1360405
Use local description
No