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Eleanor Shapiro: The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives (Virtual on Zoom)

- Pacific Time Virtual Program

In partnership with Temple Isaiah, Congregation Beth El and the Oshman Family JCC – Palo Alto

The Middle East conflict often seems too complex and painful to contemplate. This multimedia history course introduces a perspective that offers an alternative to the despair that comes with hopeless headlines. All levels of learning are welcome.

7 Wednesdays: 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 and 11/23

Class 1: Setting the Stage:

Late Ottoman Empire – end of WWI

Class 2: Mandate Palestine

(1922-1936)

Class 3: Mandate Palestine

Part II (1936 -1948)

Class 4: 1948 – 1967

Independence / Nakba

Class 5: From the Six-Day War to the

First Intifada (1968 – 1988)

Class 6: 1988-2008

From Oslo to Stalemate

Class 7: Breaking the Cycle

Eleanor Shapiro: The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives (Virtual on Zoom)

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