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Sami Adwan

A co-founder with the late Dan Bar-On of PRIME, and its current co-director, Sami Adwan has published widely on the role of education in peace-building.

Books by Sami Adwan

Side by Side

Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine

Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh

In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck by how different the standard Israeli and Palestinian textbook histories of the same events were from one another, they began to explore how to “disarm” the teaching of the history of the Middle East in Israeli and Palestinian classrooms. The result is a riveting “dual narrative” of Israeli and Palestinian history. Side… (more information)