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BHUM 13A02 - The Question of Palestine through documents

BHUM 13A02 · Spring semester 2025-2026

Language of tuition
English
Course type
Conférence
Number of hours
24
Credits
3

Information

Description

This reading seminar is linked to the undergraduate course given by Jean-Pierre Filiu in the Autumn semester of 2024-2025. These sessions aim to approach the Palestinian Question through historical documents (e.g., the Balfour Declaration (1917), United Nations Resolution 242 (1967), or the Declaration of Principles (1993)) as well as literary documents (Ghassan Kanafani, Jean Genet…), addressing one of the most debated issues in contemporary history. This reading seminar does not pretend to cover all the complex and multi-faceted developments of the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict," but it is dedicated to understanding, description, and interpretation of the various phases of the so-called "Palestinian Question". Each two-hour session will focus on one of critical period of such a dense historical cycle, with discussions of the foundational texts of the Palestinian Question and compulsory readings in order, for the students, to be best prepared before each class.

Assessment

  • 1 presentation on a historical document (50% of course mark)
  • 1 Take-home exam on a topic given during the 9th session and to be delivered in the final session (50%)

Readings

Main readings 5

  1. Gur ALROEY, An unpromising land, Jewish migration to Palestine in the early twentieth century, Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2014. https://catalogue-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/permalink/33USPC_SPO/17qrfdm/alma991006814404005808

  2. Jean-Pierre FILIU, Gaza, a history, London, Hurst, 2014.

  3. Michael BRENNER, In search for Israel, the history of an idea, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014.

    Borrow

  4. Nir KEDAR, Ben Gourion and the foundation of the Israeli democracy, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2021. https://catalogue-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/permalink/33USPC_SPO/1d4eftp/alma991007568824205808

  5. Rashid KHALIDI, The Iron cage, Boston, Beacon Press, 2006. https://catalogue-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/permalink/33USPC_SPO/1d4eftp/alma991006829847405808

Further readings 7

  1. Avi SHLAIM, Israel and Palestine, London, Verso, 2009.

    Borrow

  2. Benny MORRIS, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee problem revisited, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://catalogue-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/permalink/33USPC_SPO/1gfac67/alma991006862938105808

  3. Colin SHINDLER, A history of modern Israel, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2013. https://catalogue-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/permalink/33USPC_SPO/1gsggji/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781139236720

    Read online

  4. Gudrun KRÄMER, A History of Palestine, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2008.

    Borrow

  5. Mark LEVINE, Overthrowing geography, Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the struggle for Palestine 1880-1948, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. https://catalogue-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/permalink/33USPC_SPO/1d4eftp/alma991006924291305808

  6. Sara ROY, The Gaza Strip, Washington, Institute of Palestine Studies, 2016.

    Borrow

  7. Tom SEGEV, 1967, New York, Metropolitan Books, 2007.

    Borrow

Teaching units

Unit no.Unit type Teaching unitsTeachers Number of hoursCredits
58053Conférence The Question of Palestine through documents François CECCALDI243

Teachers

  • François CECCALDI

In the curricula

Contacts and resources

Contact
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