Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Challenges of Writing an Introductory Textbook
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political debates
- Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers essentially unwinnable
- Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked by the dispute
- Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and understanding the conflict, and to go beyond trying to prove who is 鈥榬ight鈥� and 鈥榳rong鈥�
Neil Caplan holds a PhD in Politics from聽London聽School聽of Economics & Political Science (University聽of聽London) and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at聽Concordia聽University聽and Scholar in Residence at聽Vanier聽College,Montreal,聽Canada. He recently retired after 35 years of teaching in the Humanities Department of Vanier College. He has published numerous articles and seven books, including聽Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925(1978),听Futile Diplomacy, a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist and Arab-Israeli negotiations from 1913 to 1956, and (with Laurie Z. Eisenberg),聽Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities (1998; revised edition 2010).