Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel

Tamir Sorek is Liberal Arts Professor of Middle East History at Pennsylvania State University. He studies culture as field of conflict and resistance, particularly in the context of Palestine/Israel. His research has highlighted the political role of sports, poetry, and collective memory.

• 1. Introduction: culture and politics in Palestine/Israel 2. Dancing with tears in our eyes: political hipsters, alternative culture and binational urbanism in Israel/ Palestine 3. Face control: everynight selection and “the other” 4. The impossible quest of Nasreen Qadri to claim colonial privilege in Israel 5. Mediterraneanism in conflict: development and settlement of Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants in Gaza and Yamit 6. Songs of subordinate integration: music education and the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel during the Mapai era 7. Self- categorization, intersectionality and creative freedom in the cultural industries: Palestinian women filmmakers in Israel 8. Religious symbolism and politics: hijab and resistance in Palestine 9. Anniversaries of ‘first’ settlement and the politics of Zionist commemoration