TY - BOOK AU - Khoury,Jamil AU - Najjar,Michael Malek AU - Pond,Corey TI - Six plays of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict SN - 9781476675909 (softcover : alk. paper) AV - PN6120.A76 S59 2018 U1 - 808.82/989274 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Jefferson , North Carolina PB - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers KW - Arab-Israeli Conflict KW - Drama KW - Palestinians KW - Israelis KW - American drama KW - Palestinian American authors KW - 21st century KW - Hebrew drama KW - Translations into English N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The admission: a play in fourteen scenes / Motti Lerner -- Essay: Motti Lerner's the admission: accounting and atoning for the past / Michael Malek Najjar -- Playwright statement: facing the trauma of 1948 -- Playscript : Scenes from 70* years / Hannah Khalil -- Essay: Hannah Khalil's scenes from 70* years: snapshots from a seemingly endless occupation / Michael Malek Najjar -- Playwright statement: humanizing the "other" -- Playscript: Tennis in Nablus / Ismail Khalidi -- Essay: Ismail Khalidi's Tennis in Nablus: mining history for the origins of the conflict / Michael Malek Najjar -- Playwright statement: writing Palestine's invisible history -- Playscript: Urge for going: trilogy version / Mona Mansour -- Essay: Mona Mansour's Urge for going: dramatizing "permanent impermanence" / Michael Malek Najjar -- Playwright statement: the unspeakable loss of displacement -- Playscript: The victims: or what do you want me to do about it / Ken Kaissar -- Essay: Ken Kaissar's The victims: sympathy for the suffering / Michael Malek Najjar -- Playwright statement: who are the victims? -- Playscript: The Zionists / Zohar Tirosh-Polk -- Essay: Zohar Tirosh-Polk's The Zionists: tracking generational trauma / Michael Malek Najjar -- Playwright statement: The Zionists: a reckoning -- Playscript -- Afterword / by Jamil Khoury and Michael Malek Najjar N2 - "A bold and singular collection of six plays by Arab and Jewish playwrights explores the human toll of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Admission by Motti Lerner, Scenes From 70* Years by Hannah Khalil, Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi, Urge for Going by Mona Mansour, The Victims by Ken Kaissar, and The Zionists by Zohar Tirosh-Polk"-- ER -