Mideast Balancing Act, In The Classroom
Jewish Week, The, January, 2005 by Schwartz, Penny
Schwartz, Penny The Jewish Week 01-06-2005 A team-taught course at Brandeis by three scholars -- Israeli, Egyptian and Palestinian -- bucks a trend and offers a lesson in how to discuss the thorny conflict. WALTHAM, MASS. -- Farrah Bdour couldn't have been more skeptical when she stepped into the "Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East" in September. The 14-week seminar, what may have been the first of its kind in the country, brought a trio of Middle East scholars -- one Israeli, one Palestinian and one Egyptian -- here to Brandeis University to team teach a multilayered course on the region's combustible politics. Bdour, a junior from Amman, Jordan, had her dou bts that the course would genuinely reflect the different perspectives of the region....
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