Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Marda Dunsky UC/file
Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Marda Dunsky UC/file

Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Marda Dunsky is a former Arab affairs reporter for the Jerusalem Post and editor on the national/foreign desk of the Chicago Tribune. She has developed and taught a unique media literacy course on American mainstream reporting of the Arab and Muslim worlds at Northwestern University and DePaul University.

(c) 2008 - Unversity of Chicago.  The World Beyond the Headlines series is a collaborative project of the Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Its aim is to bring scholars and journalists together to consider major international issues and how they are covered in the media.

Recorded Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at International House.