Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War 
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War by Shay Hazkani offers a new history of the 1948 war, based on personal letters of “ordinary” Jews and Arabs. The book also examines previously unexplored propaganda, disseminated by Israel and Arab states during the war. In so doing, Dear Palestine offers two narratives—the official and unofficial, the propaganda and the personal letters—to flesh out the fissures between sanctioned nationalism and individual identity. In the broadest sense, the book offers a new prism through which to look at the establishment of modern Israel on the ruins of Arab Palestine.
Date: 12 October 2021, 14:15 (Tuesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: The Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre
Speaker: Prof Shay Hazkani (University of Maryland)
Organising department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Organiser: Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Organiser contact email address: middle.east@area.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Part of: Israel Studies Seminar
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dear-palestine-a-social-history-of-the-1948-war-shay-hazkani-tickets-175323436117
Audience: Public
Editors: Helen Morley, Holly Omand, Stephen Minay, Dorian Singh