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ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT

Arab-Jewish Culture in Israel Today: Producers, Consumers, and Gatekeepers

Guest Speakers:

“Arab-Jewish Language, Poetry, Literature, and Activism in Israel” 
Almog Behar - Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University 

“Little ‘Maghrebs' in the Promised Land: Moroccaness in Israel” 
Yigal Shalom Nizri - Lecturer in the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto 

“The Mizrahi Petition to the Supreme Court Against the ‘Nation-State’ Law” 
Netta Amar-Shiff - Attorney specializing in human rights and international humanitarian law. 

Chair:

Wendy Pearlman, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University 

Second of five discussions and performances in the series Arab-Jewish Culture, Identity, and Language - Past and Present