Children’s Books About Palestine

Children’s Books About Palestine

By Katharine Davies Samway This article appeared originally in Rethinking Schools, vol. 27, no. 2, winter 2012–13.   It was a beautiful fall day for the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival and I was volunteering at a booth devoted to Palestine and the...

Independence or Catastrophe?

Teaching Palestine through multiple narratives By Samia Shoman This article first appeared in Rethinking Schools magazine, summer 2014. Introduction Long before I was born in 1975, the course of my life had been drastically altered by history. When David Ben-Gurion...