Episode 2: History and Politics of Israel and Palestine from 1881 - 1967

A discussion of the conflicts, politics and narratives of the formative decades of Palestinian and Israeli history. Emily Bazelon, staff writer at New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law, Yale Law School, is the session's moderator. Joining the conversation are panelists Bernard Avishai and Ezzedine Fishere. Avishai is a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College who has contributed regularly to The New Yorker about Israeli affairs and global business. Fishere is a Senior Lecturer of Middle East Politics at Dartmouth College, a novelist, and a diplomat. For the last two years, Avishai and Fishere have co-taught a course which has been described as an ‘academic peace process’, exploring Israeli and Palestinian histories in parallel, and inviting students to question, doubt and discuss along the way.