Palestine and the Palestinians: A Modern History

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course teaches the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinian people from a multireligious Ottoman Palestine to the contemporary moment. It centers the experience of being Palestinian at home and in exile after the Nakba of 1948. In particular, it examines the origins of one of the longest running and most significant settler colonial realities in modern history. The course explores the history and ethics of Palestinian resistance to their dispossession, the literary and visual expressions of Palestinian identity, and the representations of the Palestinian struggle in the West. Using a broad range of primary sources, literary texts, and films, students will be encouraged to reflect upon Palestinian history on its own terms.