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In Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience, Marda Dunsky provides perspective on the Palestinian experience and context for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict currently in the headlines.
Dunsky has interviewed women and men from cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps who are farmers, scientists, writers, cultural innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs. Using their own words, she illuminates their resourcefulness in navigating agriculture, education, and cultural pursuits in the West Bank; persisting in Jerusalem as a sizable minority in the city; and confronting the challenges and uncertainties of life in the Gaza Strip.
From the Introduction: The Story behind the Stories
Madees Khoury is holding court, regaling thirty or so members of an Episcopal church from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who have ridden a big white tour bus to the Taybeh Brewing Company, owned and run by Khoury’s family.
Translated from Arabic, taybeh means good or delicious, and it
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As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 through the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, she finds that the media omit two key contextual elements: the significant impact that U.S. policy has had and continues to have on the trajectory of the conflict, and the way international law and consensus have addressed the key issues of Israeli settlement and annexation policies and Palestinian refugees. Dunsky explores how reports of the conflict routinely take on the contours of American policy and rarely utmaning the premises of this "Washington consensus." She also examines the media's responses to allegations of biased coverage and gauges the effect that mainstre
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An Interview with Marda Dunsky
InPens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. In this interview she discusses her book and examines the failures of the U.S. media and what journalists and citizens can do to insure better coverage of the conflict.
Question:Why fryst vatten the issue of American mainstream media reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict important?
Marda Dunsky: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the only major conflict in the Middle East and South Asia, but it is perhaps the one most familiar to Americans and it is among the longest running. This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the seminal year of 1948, when the state of Israel was established to create a homeland for the Jewish people, while Palestine disappeared as a geopolitical entity and half the Pale