Grand Challenge Seminar Highlight
A Recipe for Understanding First-year students enrolled in the Dietrich College’s Palestinian and Israeli Food Cultures Grand Challenge Seminar examined Palestinian and Israeli history,
culture and conflict through the lens of food in the 2023-2024 academic year. Michal Friedman, the Jack Buncher Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of History, and Nevine Abraham, assistant teaching professor of Arabic studies in the Department of Modern Languages, co-taught the course. Friedman brings her knowledge of history, going back to the Middle Ages, moving into the migration of Jews across Europe and finally the modern history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, to the course. Abraham provides the cultural and literary perspective, introducing novels and memoirs that help students understand the Arab and Jewish diasporas and how they contributed to today’s culinary culture. A short video brings the course’s culinary experience to life.
Michal Friedman, the Jack Buncher Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of History
Nevine Abraham, assistant teaching professor of Arabic studies, Department of Modern Languages
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