Author Description

In Zoom In, Israeli and Palestinian authors collectively explore the contrasting perspectives on memory and remembrance through an innovative approach. Palestinian and Israeli university students are presented with a catalogue of period photographs from 1948 and then asked to provide their personal impressions. These individual reactions are then analyzed by the scholars, providing a multi-perspective commentary and analysis that underscores the urgent need for building greater understanding for the common history of this region. A particularly insightful case study is presented by Menachem Klein and Mahmoud Yazbak who jointly investigate how the 1948 expulsion and deportation of Palestinian refugees from the villages of Aylut and Malul are remembered today, both at the individual and collective levels, underscoring the enduring the dynamics that exist between the past and the present. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction, Catherine Cissé-van den Muijsenbergh Chapter 1 - Photographs on 1948's Palestinian Refugees with comments from students Chapter 2 - 'Aylut and Ma'lul: A Tale of Two Palestinian Villages Before and After the 1948 Nakba and the Birth of Israel, Mahmoud Yazbak and Menachem Klein Chapter 3 - Analysis on the comments 1 A Choreography of Memories, Menachem Klein 2 The Nakba and the Palestinian Silence, Mahmoud Yazbak 3 Social Silence: Transference, De-Sensitization and De-Focusing Among the Israeli Students, Efrat Ben-Ze'ev 4 The Afterlives of 1948: Photographic Remembrances in a Time of Catastrophe, Ihab Saloul 5 The Victimhood Trap, Tamir Sorek 6 Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe Continues, Sami Adwan Biographies Annex Memories of Students on 1948 and the Palestinian Refugees and Students' Opinions on Historical Truth and Historical Justice ABOUT THE AUTHORS Sami Adwan, Ph.D (1987) in Education Administration, University of San Francisco, a Professor of Education and a teacher trainer at the Faculty of Education at Bethlehem University. Prof. Adwan's re