The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Abstract
This book talk discusses the attempts of leading scholars to consider how the “Jewish Question” and the “Arab Question” are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights. Together, the essays of the book under discussion show that the Arab and Jewish questions, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which they have become subsumed, belong to the same thorny history. Despite their major differences, the historical Jewish and Arab questions are about the political rights of oppressed groups and their inclusion within exclusionary political communities—a question that continues to foment tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Shedding new light on the intricate relationships among Orientalism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, and the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book reveals the inseparability of Arab and Jewish struggles for self-determination and political equality.
Date: 9 February 2021, 17:00
Venue: ZOOM Online Webinar
Speakers: Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel), Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston), Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University), Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford), Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Middle East Centre
Organiser: MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Organiser contact email address: mec@sant.ox.ac.uk
Host: MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81853530192?pwd=VDNYcUlMWW10c1NCN0ZwNDFtL0grQT09
Cost: FREE
Audience: Public
Editor: Stacey Churcher