Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Shofar
Department
McGeorge School of Law
ISSN
15345165
Volume
41
Issue
2
DOI
10.1353/sho.2023.a911225
First Page
201
Last Page
221
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Abstract
What happens to Zionism as an idea when it is encountered through the lens of attachment, loss, and interpersonal connection? This article uses a creative-nonfiction form and a dual autoethnographic lens to examine the question of Jewish Zionist longings and Palestinian memory through the heart and mind of two scholars: a Canadian Jew and a Palestinian American. Mira Sucharov, a professor of political science at Carleton University and a frequent public commentator on Middle East issues, writes to Omar M. Dajani, a former member of the Palestinian negotiating team’s legal support unit, who is now a law professor at University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law, and Omar writes back. Their correspondence—set both in the present and in a recreated past—suggests avenues for a reexamination of identity and connection to place, and a rediscovery of relationality to one another.
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Recommended Citation
Dajani, Omar M. and Sucharov, Mira, "Dear Omar, Dear Mira Exploring Zionism Across the Ethnic Divide" (2023). Pacific Faculty Work. 169.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/all-faculty/169
