Examining Education, Media, and Dialogue under Occupation

Ilham Nasser is an associate professor in Early Childhood Education at George Mason University. She has spent over 25 years in teaching and research in different educational settings in the US and the Middle East. She has researched and published on the topic of teacher development and teaching for peace.

This book address media and education in the context of Palestine and Israel. They provide insights and provocative analysis of the status quo in education, including language teaching, educational policy and research, media representations and reporting in Middle East and U.S. and different models of dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis.

Introduction - I. Nasser, L.N. Berlin and S. WongPart 1: Education 1 Palestinian Education under Occupation: Successes and Challenges - K. Shakhshir 2 The Healing Power of Stories: Dialogue through English Language Learning - I. Deeb and G. Weinstein 3 Positionalities and Personal Perspectives on Educational Research under Occupation: Where is Hope? - S. Wong and I. Nasser 4 Emancipatory Discourse? An Ethnographic Case Study of English Language Teaching in an Arabic-Hebrew Bilingual School - J. Schlam-Salman and Z. Bekerman 5 The Presentation of Palestinians in Israeli Schoolbooks - N. Peled-ElhananPart 2: Media 6 Palestinians, Arab American Muslims and the Media - N. Ayish 7 The Political Discourse of the Israeli Occupation: The Spirit of Orientalism - A. Atawneh 8 The War on Gaza: American and Egyptian Media Framing - N.H. El-Bilawi 9 Language and the Art of Spin: Commendation and Condemnation in Media - L.N. BerlinPart 3: Dialogue 10 Dis-covering Peace: Dominant and Counterdiscourse of the Middle East - S. Silberstein 11 An Israeli-Palestinian Partnership: Can We Find a Joint Language? And Should We? - M. Zak 12 Postcolonialism and the Jewish Palestinian Encounter - R. Halabi 13 Checkpoint: Turning Discourse into Dialogue - S.J. Kent, R. Sibii and A.R. Napoleone 14 Where is the Hope? A Call for Action - S. Wong, I. Nasser and L.N. Berlin