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Category Archives: Middle East Peace
A Sign for the Times
Taken from Redit.com For the entertainment portion of today’s blog, we begin with an article and video link to Gal Gadot and friends singing a beautiful and haunting version of Imagine Click here to for the link to the article … Continue reading
There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part II
One of the first examples of a graphic narrative about an immigrant’s experience is literature is The Four Immigrants Manga (1931), written and illustrated by Henry Kiyama, 1885-1951). The book went out of print and was lost until it was translated … Continue reading
There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part 1
From Wikipedia: “…diaspora is used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, most notably the Jews who were dispersed from the Land of Israel in antiquity” So I am a member of this … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Civil rights, Comics, David Greenfield Dissertation, Education, Graphic Medicine, Graphic Novels, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Israeli Christians, Israeli Jews, Israeli Muslims, Jews, John Lewis, Joseph Kony, Learning, March, Middle East Peace, Multi-cultural America, Palestine, Paracuellos, Project-based learning, Social Justice, War
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Surreal, mythical, and tragic
These three words describe three graphic novels about the Middle East that I recently read. Actually only two are novels, the third, Mike’s Place, is best more like historical fiction. Each book completely engages the reader via stories that are … Continue reading
My own Christmas/Holiday truce
In the winter of ’75-’76, while serving in an infantry brigade in the Israeli army, I was stationed on Mt. Avital, a mountain on the Golan Heights. Well, actually, it was one of the several extinct volcanoes that dot the … Continue reading
Travels with David, or the good neighbor policy in action
I grew up on the east side of Los Angeles, in a town called Montebello, a pretty cool place to grow up. It was primarily a middle-class town, filled with working class people. There were attorneys, carpenters, carpet people, clerks, … Continue reading