Tall Shadows: Interviews with Israeli Arabs

by Smadar Bakovic

Overview

Who are the Israeli Arabs? Are they Israeli, Arab, or both? Of what do they dream and believe? What are their hopes? What does it mean to be an Arab living in the Jewish state, within the historical context of the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Disengagement Plan, against a backdrop of Shaheeds and suicide bombers?

In the year 2001, Smadar Bakovic, an Israeli Jew conversant in Arabic and familiar with the mores of Arabic culture, set out to answer these questions. During the course of several years, following the Second Intifada, she spent countless days in Arab villages listening to Israeli Arab men, women, and children express their innermost feelings. She recorded their ideas and beliefs about Israel, Islam, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the global war against terror, and their views on their rights and responsibilities as Israeli citizens.

Tall Shadows deals with major issues for this forgotten minority, including the relationship between Israeli Arabs and the Jewish State, the relationship between Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians, the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and issues of "split identity," and the importance of Islam in Arab-Israeli culture.

Tall Shadows introduces the reader to the lives of a traditional, religious, and cultured people who have been labeled a "Fifth Column" by numerous Israelis and "Zionist traitors" by many Palestinians around the world. It gives a platform to a society often caught between Israel and Palestine, Israelis and Palestinians, Judaism and Islam, a voice to a people previously silent, unable, unwilling, and perhaps afraid to speak out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761832898
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.92(d)

About the Author

Smadar Bakovic, a researcher at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, spent the last eight years living in the United States, Switzerland, and Turkey. She graduated from Bates College with a B.A. in English Literature. Bakovic speaks English, Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Turkish and currently lives in Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Conventions Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 Introduction Chapter 6 Israeli Arabs and the Jewish State Chapter 7 Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians Chapter 8 Suicide Bombing and Shaheeds Chapter 9 Epilogue Chapter 10 Select Bibliography Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Its major contribution: Bakovic gives voice to a group whose future and that of Israel are intimately intertwined….Her timely, engaging, and challenging book points out how very much remains to be accomplished.

The European Legacy – Toward New Paradigms

Its major contribution: Bakovic gives voice to a group whose future and that of Israel are intimately intertwined….Her timely, engaging, and challenging book points out how very much remains to be accomplished.

The European Legacy - Toward New Paradigms

Its major contribution: Bakovic gives voice to a group whose future and that of Israel are intimately intertwined….Her timely, engaging, and challenging book points out how very much remains to be accomplished.

The European Legacy