Teaching About Israel and Palestine

Teaching About Israel and Palestine
 

Sponsored by
The Madeleine and W.W. Keen Butcher History Institute
at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

 
Teaching the Israel-Palestine Conflict

• Abdel Monem Said Aly, President, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo
• Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
• Khalil Shikaki, Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah

The Palestine Mandate

• Adam Garfinkle, Editor, The American Interest

The Birth and Evolution of Zionism

• Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

The Birth and Evolution of Palestinian Nationalism

• Ann Lesch, Emeritus Professor, American University of Cairo

The Partition of Palestine

• Bernard Wasserstein, Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Modern European Jewish History, University of Chicago

The History of the Peace Process

• TBA

Public Opinion in Israel and Palestine

• Justin Finkelstein, Harvey Sicherman Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Does the Two-State Solution Have a Future?

• Moderator: Trudy Rubin, Columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Hussein Ibish, Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP)
• Asher Susser, Professor of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University

WHAT PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE

 
Forty participants will be selected to receive:

• complimentary overnight accommodations for those outside of the Philadephia vicinity;
• complimentary lunch and dinner on Saturday, plus continental breakfast on Saturday and Sunday
• assistance in designing curriculum and special projects based on the History Institute;
• stipends of $200 for well-developed lesson plans for posting on our website that effectively utilize the experience of the weekend conference, or documentation of in-service presentations based on the weekend;
• partial travel reimbursements (up to $250) for participants outside the vicinity of the conference center;
• subscription to E-Notes, FPRI's weekly bulletin; and Footnotes, FPRI's bulletin for high school teachers.
• a certificate of participation in a program offering 12 hours of instruction. In addition, for those interested, college credit is available for a small fee through our cooperating institution, Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
• Videotapes of the entire conference will be posted subsequently on our website, plus texts of selected lectures.

TO APPLY