Course Readings

Week 1: Aug 29-31

Amiry, Suad. “Researching East Jerusalem”

Amiry, Suad. “Representing Jerusalem”

Hasan-Rokem, Galit. “Dialogue as Ethical Conduct: The Folk Festival That Was Not”

Horowitz, Amy. “Living Jerusalem: Cultures and Communities in Conflict”

Week 2: Sept 7

Dumper, Mick. “Jerusalem: Then and Now”

Khaladi, Rashid. “The History of Jerusalem”

Rubin, Rehav. “Jerusalem: The Holy City through the Ages”

Pressman, Jeremy. “A Brief History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,”

Week 3: Sept 12-14

Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. Introduction and chapters 1-4

Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. Chapters 5-7

Week 4: Sept 19-21

Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. Chapters 8 - 10

Chapter 8(p 153-173) here

Chapter 9 here

Chapter 10 here

Week 5: Sept 26-28

Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. Chapters 11-13 (Chapter 11 here, Chapter 12 here, Chapter 13 here)

Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. Chapters 14-15

Chapter 14 here

Chapter 15 here

Week 6: Oct 3-5

Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. Chapters 16-18

Chapter 16 here

Chapter 17 here

Chapter 18 here

Week 7: Oct 10-12

Galit Hasan-Rokem: "Not the Mother of All Cities"

Week 8: Oct 17-19

Klein, Menachem. “Old and New Walls in Jerusalem.” Political Geography 24, 1 (1/05): 33-76.

Peteet, Julie. The Writing on the Walls: The Graffiti of the Intifada

http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/140 (website related to Peteet’s article)

Artists Against Walls (video footage on blog)

Week 9: Oct 24-26

Please look through:

the Knowledge is the Beginning website: http://www.knowledge-is-the-beginning.com/ 

the Barenboim-Said Foundation website: http://www.barenboimsaidusa.org/, and 

View these videos regarding the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqi8pBcTeA&feature=related,and

this interview with Daniel Barenboim:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDJui5-zoeg&feature=fvsr.

 Barenboim, Daniel and Said, Edward W., edited by Ara Guzelimian. Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, read the Preface, Introduction, In Memoriam and pages 1-12.

Noura Dabdoub, “Homeland Redefined: Spaces of National Belonging” https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/30109/nouradabdoub.pdf?sequence=1

Week 10: Oct 31-Nov 2

The Sabreen Center, http://www.sabreen.org/default.asp
The Jerusalem Music Center http://www.jmc.co.il/thejmc.asp?cid=2,
The Heartbeat Project: http://www.dosomething.org/project/heartbeat-jerusalem-the-palestinian-and-israeli-youth-music-project,
The Oud Festival http://www.confederationhouse.org/eng, http://www.bac.org.il/piyut/eng.html, Palestinian Rap: http://www.reverbnation.com/pojprinceofjerusalem,
Israeli Rap: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139888

Visit two websites of musicians or music institutions in Jerusalem. What are their perspectives on Jerusalem? How does their website/music communicate their point of view? Is their narrative convincing?

Week 11: Nov 7-9

Amiry, Suad. Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries. Chapter 7: “The Promised Gas Masks” (82-93) and Chapter 9: “A Dog’s Life” (107-119)
Galit Hasan-Rokem: "Not the Mother of All Cities"

Week 12: Nov 14-16

http://jerusalemopenhouse.wordpress.com/, http://joh.org.il/index.php/english,
http://www.cityofborders.com/,  

http://www.alqaws.org/q/

Week 13: Nov 21

Week 14: Nov 28-30

Week 15: Dec 5-7

Finals Week: Dec 14