Levantine vignettes : an educator's account of border crossing in the Middle East

"In the United States, the dominant perception of the Middle East is that the region is defined by violence, conflict, and extremism. This narrative erases the humanity and dignity of the region's communities and perpetuates Orientalist myths about backwardness, inferiority, and a class of...

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Main Author Osborn, Daniel (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2024]
SeriesResearch in life writing and education
Subjects
Osborn, Daniel > Travel > Middle East.
Middle East > Description and travel.
Travel > Middle East > General.
Travel writing.
Travel and holiday.
Middle East.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806600045
DOI10.1108/9798887308050
Physical Description1 online resource (300 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Between New England and the Near East
  • Meditating on Mediterranean Sunsets : Experiencing Insight in Tel Aviv and Beirut
  • Coffee, Jerusalem, Ibriks, and Defiantly Crossing Borders
  • The Ethic of Encountering Al-Nakba : Confronting the Boundaries of Narrative Truth
  • Getting Lost in Bethlehem and Learning to Trust
  • Seeing Beyond Conflict : Participating in Life and Leisure in the West Bank
  • Uncovering Unseen Wounds : Listening to War Stories on the Sea of Galilee
  • Gadflies in the Golan : A Hike in the Heights Among the Ruins
  • An End to Being Out of Place : Self-Affirmation in Tel Aviv
  • An Olive Harvest in Jordan : Embodying Cooperative Work
  • Unpacking a "Real Bedouin Experience" with The General and Mahmoud Abu Saleh
  • Brothers, Apart : Qais, Majed, and the Many Faces of Hayat al-Bedu
  • The Desert is My Classroom : Communing With Nature and Competing with the Elements
  • Expanding the Borders of Bedouin Possibilities : Planting Trees and Taking Root
  • He Took the Time to Teach : My Neighbor Hussein
  • Perspective Taking and Border Crossing on the Red Sea
  • A Cacophonous Classroom : Delighting in the Bountiful Souq
  • Learning to Gather : Mansef and the Power of Food
  • Being in Beirut : Learning about Wounds, Scars, and Healing
  • Socratic Seminars and Brotherly Love on Our Hill
  • Reorienting Myself Through a Prayer in Deir al-Qamar
  • A Final Thought : Tikun olam, ma' ba'ath.

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