CSRE 147P: Palestine in Literature and Film (COMPLIT 147P, COMPLIT 347P)

Course Description

In this class we will read and watch Palestinian novels, drawings, short stories, films, and poems from the 1960s to the early 2000s: Mahmoud Darwish, Anton Shammas, Samira Azzam, Naji al-Ali, Elia Suleiman, Emile Habibi, Sayed Kashua, and Adania Shibli. We will also read historical context, criticism, and theory written by Palestinian scholars in 2025 (and 1967): Ghassan Kanafani, Samer El-Saber and Abdalla Bayyari. Class sessions will be a mixture of discussion and lecture. The course will be reading-heavy but writing-light (no papers; two proctored exams) and there are no prerequisites for any knowledge of the content or writing skills.