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Making Peace With Contradictions: Reflections Of Territory And Identity In Israel/Palestine, Chase Clow
Making Peace With Contradictions: Reflections Of Territory And Identity In Israel/Palestine, Chase Clow
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
Both historical and personal essay, this culminating project is a creative non-fiction work exploring the modern historical roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Part I surveys the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Palestine, centering on two key figures: Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion (1886-1973), and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muslim Leader Hajj Amin al-Husayni (1897-1974). Interweaving historical fact, myth, personal story, and biography, with Israeli and Palestinian poetry and poses by the author, themes such as relationship to land, attachment to home, and the displacement created by industrialization upon a traditional, rural lifestyle are explored. Part II relates the …