Gaza in the Critical EFL Classroom: Opening Eyes, Hearts and Minds

The full article is available to our members in our 2015 summer Newsletter.

References

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Alareer, Refaat, ed. (2014). Gaza writes back: Short stories from young writers in Gaza, Palestine. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books. Publisher’s link: http://goo.gl/5dZoR0

Alashqar, Khaled. (2014). Burning the future of Gaza’s children. IPS, 16 Aug. http://goo.gl/BWHcae

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Almeghari, Rami. (2014a). Israel attacks my university – with bombs and lies. Electronic Intifada, 4 August. http://goo.gl/ubKroR and (2014b) 16 August. http://goo.gl/RBzSwc

AP. (2014). Emotional wounds of Gaza war remain unhealed. The Epoch Times, 18 August. http://goo.gl/cbJLp2

Arutz Sheva. (2014). Far-left groups shocked by public backlash. Arutz Sheva, 15 August. http://goo.gl/WMk3E4

Barrows-Friedman, Nora. (2014). Gaza Professor Haidar Eid describes “most devastating destruction since 1948.” Electronic Intifada, 14 August. http://goo.gl/kvtMVH

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Deger. Allison. (2015). UN report on Gaza war includes stories of civilian executions, attacks on ambulances and targeting of humanitarian facilities. Mondoweiss, 24 June. http://goo.gl/3xEz6S

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Frykberg, Mel. (2015). Palestinian women victims on many fronts. IPS, 21 March. http://goo.gl/PfDsfu

Gordon, Neve. (2015). Israel votes apartheid. Countercurrents, 19 March http://goo.gl/lF9QVX

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Jadaliyya Reports. (2014). Over 100 Middle East Studies scholars and librarians call for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Jadaliyya, 6 August. http://goo.gl/wjYJZA

Kane, Alex. (2015). How a Washington state teacher is bringing Palestine into high school classrooms. Mondoweiss, 17 February. http://goo.gl/axGFcv

Kashti, Or. (2014). Israeli teenagers: Racist and proud of it. Haaretz, 21 Aug. goo.gl/7wiEYX

Levy, Gideon. (2014). Why Israel is its own worst enemy. CNN, 8 August. goo.gl/OpQNRJ

Levy, Gideon. (2015). Israel is galloping to the next war in Gaza. War Without Mercy, 26.2. http://goo.gl/nhbsVX

Levy, G, & Levac, A. (2014). Behind the IDF shooting of a 10-year-old boy. Haaretz, 21.8. http://goo.gl/Yrk1SC

Newsham, John. (2014). Perhaps governments do not talk about Israeli terror, but we will not be silent. New Internationalist Easier English Wiki, 15 Sept. http://goo.gl/R7Plfq

Norton, Ben. (2015a). Independent investigation details Israel’s deliberate targeting of civilians in Gaza. Mondoweiss, 29 Jan. http://goo.gl/8xcpPE

Norton, Ben (2015b). UN: In 2014, Israel demolished 1,177 Palestinians’ homes in the West Bank. Mondoweiss, 2 Feb. http://goo.gl/wsefuq  

Pohl, Uwe, & Szesztay, Margit. (2105). Bringing creative, critical and compassionate thinking into ELT. Humanising Language Teaching 17(2), April. http://goo.gl/0v9hM5

Peled-Elhanan, Nurit. (2012). Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. London: I.B. Tauris.

Ramadan, Hasan. (2015). Using writing and drawing to release tension among traumatized students. Paper, IATEFL 49th international conference, Manchester, 12 April.

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Tarbush, Susannah. (2014). Young Gazan writers prove the power of the short story. The Palestine Chronicle, 25 January. http://goo.gl/X2UWfn

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The World Can’t Wait! (2014). Stop Israel’s ongoing war crimes against the people of Gaza. Public meeting with key speakers, The Cooper Union, NYC, 14 Aug. 2 hrs, 38 minutes. Videorecorded. http://goo.gl/nsYqYe   Refaat Alareer segment: http://goo.gl/MJxe4e

Their, Tzvia. (2015). My personal journey of transformation. Mondoweiss, 11 April. http://goo.gl/XHLpYi

Weiss, Suzanne. (2014).  Not in my name.  The Bullet, 16 August. http://goo.gl/2bCAXf

Weiss, Philip. (2015). The political geography of colony and Bantustan, is the same on both sides of the Green Line — Amira Hass. Mondoweiss, 27 March. http://goo.gl/4RP4cG

Yeshua-Lyth, Ofra. (2015). Options for a non-Zionist Jewish voter. Mondoweiss, 10 March.  http://goo.gl/P0ti98

2 Responses to Gaza in the Critical EFL Classroom: Opening Eyes, Hearts and Minds

  1. Bill Templer October 2, 2015 at 11:30 pm #

    The book publlisher’s link for Alareer, GAZA WRITES BACK is http://justworldbooks.com/gaza-writes-back/ It moved from the URL given above.

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