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American Looking: A Collection Of Personal Essays On The Middle East, Genevieve Dominique Chiola
American Looking: A Collection Of Personal Essays On The Middle East, Genevieve Dominique Chiola
Senior Projects Spring 2020
A collection of personal essays which are theoretically and thematically grounded in concepts of the Middle East as constructed, deconstructed, and rebuilt in the mind of an American
Our Family Trees, Juliet M. Hadid
Our Family Trees, Juliet M. Hadid
Senior Projects Spring 2018
A nonfiction story about my grandmother's flight from Palestine during al Nakba, and my experience of her homeland.
Arak And Other Stories, Fatima Sausan Masoud
Arak And Other Stories, Fatima Sausan Masoud
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Set in the West Bank, Arak and Other Stories follows the lives of members of the Al-Hakim family. Through the stories, Palestinian-American, Layla Al-Hakim, uncovers long buried family secrets and discovers deep connections to her Palestinian cousins.
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 …