About this webinar: Before they arrive on campus, with few exceptions, college undergraduates know very little about modern world history and international relations in general and about the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular. Most lack perspectives for contemporary politics. Most lack a sense of historical context. Students are therefore highly dependent upon individual faculty who present the conflict. Faculty often feel that they have an obligatory role to preach a view about the conflict rather than teach the sources that unfolded and made the conflict what it is today.

Teaching the conflict, modern Middle Eastern history and Israel at Emory have provided keen insights on how the conflict is taught today as compared to the late 1970s and 1980s when neither students nor faculty were drunk on polemics, narratives, politicization, fake history, and an unfiltered  web for information. What positive measures can we as faculty, concerned parents and students take to adjust these realities?