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Magid Shihade's Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among PDF

By Magid Shihade

ISBN-10: 0815632568

ISBN-13: 9780815632566

On April eleven, 1981, neighboring Palestinian Arab cities competed in a football fit. Kafr Yassif had a predominantly Christian inhabitants, and Julis was once a predominantly Druze city. whilst a struggle broke out among lovers, the violence fast escalated, leaving from each one city useless. within the days that the sport, a bunch from Julis retaliated with assaults at the citizens of Kafr Yassif. Shihade skilled that football fit and the consequent violence firsthand, leaving him affected by questions on why the Israeli gurus didn't do extra to forestall the violence and what ended in the clash among those neighboring Arab cities. Drawing on interviews, council data, and media experiences, Shihade explores the incident and next assault on Kafr Yassif within the context of triumphing theories of ethnic and communal clash. He additionally discusses the rules of the Israeli country towards its Arab electorate. Countering Orientalist emphases on Arab and Islamic cultures as inherently unruly and sectarian, Shihade demanding situations current theories of communal violence, highlighting the importance of colonialism’s legacy, modernity, and nation constructions. furthermore, he breaks new flooring by means of documenting and reading using a conventional Arab clash solution technique, sulha, which has bought little sustained consciousness from students within the West.

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