Course Content
Welcome to “A Crash Course on Media and Palestine”
This module facilitates participants in setting learning goals and joining the ice-breaker activity.
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Pre-Survey for Participants in “A Crash Course on Media and Palestine”
Flip: Introductions/Ice-breaker
Histories of Palestine
This module introduces participants to histories of Palestine through the lens of media history.
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Critical Reading
Critical Viewing
Flip: Histories of Palestine
Refugees & Returning
This module introduces participants to the world's oldest and largest refugee population.
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Critical Reading
Critical Viewing
Flip: Refugees & Returning
Open Classroom with …
In this module, participants will watch a TV documentary and interview a Palestinian journalist about their media work.
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Critical viewing
Flip: Interview with a Palestinian Journalist
International Law & the UN
This module introduces participants to international law, UN history, and the differences between the UN Security Council and UN General Assembly.
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Critical Reading
Flip: International Law & the UN
Open Classroom with …
In this module, participants will interview a Palestinian-Lebanese scholar about their research on the UN.
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Flip: Interview with a Palestinian-Lebanese Scholar
Israeli Apartheid
This module introduces participants to the framework of Israeli apartheid and how to apply this framework in analyzing visual media.
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Critical Reading
Padlet: Analyzing Israeli Apartheid in Visualizing Palestine Posters
Open Classroom with …
In this module, participants will interview an expert on Israeli apartheid and Palestinian human rights.
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Flip: Interview with an Expert
Decolonizing Palestine
This module introduces participants to the concept of rainbow-washing by Israel in the media and counter narratives that resist rainbow-washing of the occupation in Palestine.
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Critical Reading
Critical Viewing
Flip: Counter Narratives of Rainbow-washing
Anti-Palestinian Media Bias
This module introduces participants to the concept of anti-Palestinian bias and how scholars study media bias through content analysis.
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Critical Reading
Padlet: Practicing Media Content Analysis
Case Study: Framing Palestinians in News
In this module, participants will use activity deliverables from the previous module to join in a research exchange with students from LAU.
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Virtual Research Exchange – Framing Palestinians in News
Final Module for “A Crash Course on Media and Palestine”
This final module facilitates participants in the self-assessment of their learning about media and Palestine.
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Self-assessment for “A Crash Course on Media and Palestine”
Private: A Crash Course on Media and Palestine [beta version for CIL Fellowship]
About Lesson

As you watch the following film, think about the power of media in narrating the realities of Palestinian refugees (especially children).

Masri, M. (1998). Children of Shatila. Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/SXSmbXBUIhk

[also on Netflix]

  • See: Excerpts from Brittain, V. (2020). My Palestine, Shatila: Children of Shatila (1998). Chapter 6 in Love and resistance in the films of Mai Masri. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan. [Google Books]
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