Module ARAM221 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM221: The Palestine Question: Past and Present
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
Palestine through the Ages: From the Roman times to Our times.
The Battle of the Narratives: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects.
The Settler Colonial paradigm versus the National Conflict paradigm.
The Zionist Narrative
The Palestinian Narrative
The Post-Zionist Challenge
New Developments in Palestinian Historiography
The Palestinian Refugee questions and its impact on the Palestine Question.
The Role of the Palestinian minority in Israel
The Peace Process and Its Discontents
The One State versus the Two States Solution
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 278 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 77 | Weekly reading (7 hours per week) |
| Guided Independent Study | 22 | Class preparation (2 hours per week) |
| Guided independent study | 179 | Preparation and writing of essay 1 (100 hours), essay 2 (50 hours), and book review (29 hours) |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Ilan Pappe, A History of Modern Palestine; One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2 nd edition 2010)
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oxford and New York: Oneworld Publications, 2007
Ilan Pappe, the Forgotten Palestinians; A History of the Palestinian Minority in Israel, London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)
Ilan Pappe, The Israel/Palestine Question, London and New York: third edition, Routledge, 2012.
Beshara Doumani, Palestine Rediscovered; Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: the Construction of Modern National Consciousness, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Edward Said, The Question of Palestine, London: Vintage 1992.
Anita Shapira,Israel: a History, Brandies: Brandies University Press, 2014.
Sholom Avineri, the Making of Modern Zionism, New York: Basic Books, 1981
