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Six plays of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / edited by Jamil Khoury, Michael Malek Najjar and Corey Pond.
Van Pelt Library PN6120.A76 S59 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Drama.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Palestinian Arabs--Drama.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Israelis--Drama.
- Israelis.
- American drama--Palestinian American authors.
- American drama.
- American drama--21st century.
- Hebrew drama--Translations into English.
- Hebrew drama.
- Hebrew drama--21st century.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 281 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson , North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A bold and singular collection of six plays by Arab and Jewish playwrights explores the human toll of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Admission by Motti Lerner, Scenes From 70* Years by Hannah Khalil, Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi, Urge for Going by Mona Mansour, The Victims by Ken Kaissar, and The Zionists by Zohar Tirosh-Polk"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The admission: a play in fourteen scenes / Motti Lerner
- Essay: Motti Lerner's the admission: accounting and atoning for the past / Michael Malek Najjar
- Playwright statement: facing the trauma of 1948
- Playscript : Scenes from 70* years / Hannah Khalil
- Essay: Hannah Khalil's scenes from 70* years: snapshots from a seemingly endless occupation / Michael Malek Najjar
- Playwright statement: humanizing the "other"
- Playscript: Tennis in Nablus / Ismail Khalidi
- Essay: Ismail Khalidi's Tennis in Nablus: mining history for the origins of the conflict / Michael Malek Najjar
- Playwright statement: writing Palestine's invisible history
- Playscript: Urge for going: trilogy version / Mona Mansour
- Essay: Mona Mansour's Urge for going: dramatizing "permanent impermanence" / Michael Malek Najjar
- Playwright statement: the unspeakable loss of displacement
- Playscript: The victims: or what do you want me to do about it / Ken Kaissar
- Essay: Ken Kaissar's The victims: sympathy for the suffering / Michael Malek Najjar
- Playwright statement: who are the victims?
- Playscript: The Zionists / Zohar Tirosh-Polk
- Essay: Zohar Tirosh-Polk's The Zionists: tracking generational trauma / Michael Malek Najjar
- Playwright statement: The Zionists: a reckoning
- Playscript
- Afterword / by Jamil Khoury and Michael Malek Najjar.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476675909
- 1476675902
- OCLC:
- 1040246834
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