HS118

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Section information text: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a wide-ranging struggle full of complexity and complication. Behind the headlines, there are many human stories, both of triumph and tragedy. During times of war, violence, and oppression, the artist endeavors to tell those stories. The artist attempts to express, to heighten, to cry, to laugh, to manipulate, to make us feel joy and pain, to humanize the conflict. In this course, we will explore how various playwrights and filmmakers address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while considering the ways that political scientists analyze, explain and understand the complexity of the same conflict. We will examine the means by which artists tell their stories, the manner in which they express their views, and the intent behind the telling. How do they humanize the conflict - seeing the "other" through the lens of art and empathy? This course is part of the Higgins School of Humanities New Commons initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.