title: Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)
author: Robert I Rotberg
description: . . . Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict presents a number of useful and pertinent perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian remembrances of the past. Sept. 2009 (Marwan Hanania <i>H-Levant</i>)<br /><br />. . . [The book's] main contribution is to see the tension as historically produced and contingent, revealling the dynamic interplay between narratives of hegemony and resistence. The key issue is what and who is acknowledged or denied, and how stories are told and re-told, reified and contested, a problem which is at the heart of violence in the Middle East and North Africa. (<i>Human Rights and Human Welfare</i>)<br /><br />. . . an in-depth study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. 29.3 2009 (Abdur Raheem Kidwai <i>Aligarh Muslim University, India</i>)<br /><br />For about 20 years, I have been teaching a course at Brandeis University called The Sociology of the IsraeliPalestinian Confrontation. As I began moving toward seeing conflicting narratives as a central issue, I looked for a book that would present the narratives issue clearly, directly, and compellingly. My search is over. The book is Robert Rotbergs edited collection that discusses the role of narratives in establishing legitimacy claims, presents varied Israeli and Palestinian narratives, and considers whether these narratives are reconcilable. Rotberg takes no stand on this final issue. He simply offers many views of it. (<i>Society</i>)
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  Palestinian Chicago
  
  
  NEW DIRECTIONS IN PALESTINIAN STUDIES
  
  Series Editorial Committee
  
  Beshara Doumani, Series Editor  
  Samera Esmier  
  Rema Hammami  
  Rashid Khalidi  
  Sherene Seikaly
  
  The New Directions in Palestinian Studies series publishes books that put
  Palestinians at the center of research projects and that make an innovative
  contribution to decolonizing and globalizing knowledge production about the
  Palestinian condition.
  
  1. Loren D. Lybarger. Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile.
  
  
  Palestinian Chicago
  
  Identity 