Making Peace with Contradictions: Reflections of Territory and Identity in Israel/Palestine

Chase Clow

doi:10.33015/dominican.edu/2004.hum.01

Making Peace with Contradictions: Reflections of Territory and Identity in Israel/Palestine

Chase Clow

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Abstract

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 personal experience of the author at a women's Middle East peace conference in Oslo, while comparing the contradictions of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), inventor of war munitions and progenitor of the Nobel Peace Prize, with the contradictions found within Israeli and Palestinian societies.

Original language	American English
Qualification	PhD
Awarding Institution	Dominican University of California
Supervisors/Advisors	Van Stavern, Jan, Advisor, External person Savant, John, Advisor, External person
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.33015/dominican.edu/2004.hum.01
State	Published - May 1 2004

Keywords

Israel
Palestine
Conflict
Middle East
War

Disciplines

Creative Writing
Islamic World and Near East History
Other Arts and Humanities
Poetry

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