Ilham Nasser is an associate professor in Early Childhood Education at George Mason University. She has spent over 25 years in teaching and research in different educational settings in the US and the Middle East. She has researched and published on the topic of teacher development and teaching for peace.Lawrence N. Berlin is Professor of Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language and Chair of Anthropology, Philosophy, and TESL/TEFL at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He is the author of several publications, including Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis (2005, Routledge) and Theoretical Approaches to Dialogue Analysis (Ed., 2007, Max Niemeyer Verlag), as well as the founder of the organization “Dialogue Under Occupation”.Shelley Wong is an Associate Professor at George Mason University in Multicultural/ESL/Bilingual Education. Shelley was President of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL, Inc.) and served on the Executive Committee of TESOL from 2007-2010. She is the author of Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows (Routledge).

A really courageous, inspiring book. It provides vivid insight into how Palestinian, Israeli and other scholars are constructively involved in resolving existential issues in education, unmasking media bias, and creating and exploring dialogue that can transcend political bigotry and paralysis. Theoretically coherent and empirically rich, the book is committed scholarship at its best.

• Introduction - I. Nasser, L.N. Berlin and S. WongPart 1: Education1 Palestinian Education under Occupation: Successes and Challenges - K. Shakhshir2 The Healing Power of Stories: Dialogue through English Language Learning - I. Deeb and G. Weinstein3 Positionalities and Personal Perspectives on Educational Research under Occupation: Where is Hope? - S. Wong and I. Nasser4 Emancipatory Discourse? An Ethnographic Case Study of English Language Teaching in an Arabic-Hebrew Bilingual School - J. Schlam-Salman and Z. Bekerman5 The Presentation of Palestinians in Israeli Schoolbooks - N. Peled-ElhananPart 2: Media6 Palestinians, Arab American Muslims and the Media - N. Ayish7 The Political Discourse of the Israeli Occupation: The Spirit of Orientalism - A. Atawneh8 The War on Gaza: American and Egyptian Media Framing - N.H. El-Bilawi9 Language and the Art of Spin: Commendation and Condemnation in Media - L.N. BerlinPart 3: Dialogue10 Dis-covering Peace: Dominant and Counterdiscourse of the Middle East - S. Silberstein11 An Israeli-Palestinian Partnership: Can We Find a Joint Language? And Should We? - M. Zak12 Postcolonialism and the Jewish Palestinian Encounter - R. Halabi13 Checkpoint: Turning Discourse into Dialogue - S.J. Kent, R. Sibii and A.R. Napoleone14 Where is the Hope? A Call for Action - S. Wong, I. Nasser and L.N. Berlin

Ilham Nasser is an associate professor in Early Childhood Education at George Mason University. She has spent over 25 years in teaching and research in different educational settings in the US and the Middle East. She has researched and published on the topic of teacher development and teaching for peace.Lawrence N. Berlin is Professor of Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language and Chair of Anthropology, Philosophy, and TESL/TEFL at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He is the author of several publications, including Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis (2005, Routledge) and Theoretical Approaches to Dialogue Analysis (Ed., 2007, Max Niemeyer Verlag), as well as the founder of the organization “Dialogue Under Occupation”.Shelley Wong is an Associate Professor at George Mason University in Multicultural/ESL/Bilingual Education. Shelley was President of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL, Inc.) and served on the Executive Committee of TESOL from 2007-2010. She is the author of Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows (Routledge).

A really courageous, inspiring book. It provides vivid insight into how Palestinian, Israeli and other scholars are constructively involved in resolving existential issues in education, unmasking media bias, and creating and exploring dialogue that can transcend political bigotry and paralysis. Theoretically coherent and empirically rich, the book is committed scholarship at its best.

• Introduction - I. Nasser, L.N. Berlin and S. WongPart 1: Education1 Palestinian Education under Occupation: Successes and Challenges - K. Shakhshir2 The Healing Power of Stories: Dialogue through English Language Learning - I. Deeb and G. Weinstein3 Positionalities and Personal Perspectives on Educational Research under Occupation: Where is Hope? - S. Wong and I. Nasser4 Emancipatory Discourse? An Ethnographic Case Study of English Language Teaching in an Arabic-Hebrew Bilingual School - J. Schlam-Salman and Z. Bekerman5 The Presentation of Palestinians in Israeli Schoolbooks - N. Peled-ElhananPart 2: Media6 Palestinians, Arab American Muslims and the Media - N. Ayish7 The Political Discourse of the Israeli Occupation: The Spirit of Orientalism - A. Atawneh8 The War on Gaza: American and Egyptian Media Framing - N.H. El-Bilawi9 Language and the Art of Spin: Commendation and Condemnation in Media - L.N. BerlinPart 3: Dialogue10 Dis-covering Peace: Dominant and Counterdiscourse of the Middle East - S. Silberstein11 An Israeli-Palestinian Partnership: Can We Find a Joint Language? And Should We? - M. Zak12 Postcolonialism and the Jewish Palestinian Encounter - R. Halabi13 Checkpoint: Turning Discourse into Dialogue - S.J. Kent, R. Sibii and A.R. Napoleone14 Where is the Hope? A Call for Action - S. Wong, I. Nasser and L.N. Berlin

Ilham Nasser is an associate professor in Early Childhood Education at George Mason University. She has spent over 25 years in teaching and research in different educational settings in the US and the Middle East. She has researched and published on the topic of teacher development and teaching for peace.Lawrence N. Berlin is Professor of Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language and Chair of Anthropology, Philosophy, and TESL/TEFL at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He is the author of several publications, including Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis (2005, Routledge) and Theoretical Approaches to Dialogue Analysis (Ed., 2007, Max Niemeyer Verlag), as well as the founder of the organization “Dialogue Under Occupation”.Shelley Wong is an Associate Professor at George Mason University in Multicultural/ESL/Bilingual Education. Shelley was President of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL, Inc.) and served on the Executive Committee of TESOL from 2007-2010. She is the author of Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows (Routledge).

A really courageous, inspiring book. It provides vivid insight into how Palestinian, Israeli and other scholars are constructively involved in resolving existential issues in education, unmasking media bias, and creating and exploring dialogue that can transcend political bigotry and paralysis. Theoretically coherent and empirically rich, the book is committed scholarship at its best.

• Introduction - I. Nasser, L.N. Berlin and S. WongPart 1: Education1 Palestinian Education under Occupation: Successes and Challenges - K. Shakhshir2 The Healing Power of Stories: Dialogue through English Language Learning - I. Deeb and G. Weinstein3 Positionalities and Personal Perspectives on Educational Research under Occupation: Where is Hope? - S. Wong and I. Nasser4 Emancipatory Discourse? An Ethnographic Case Study of English Language Teaching in an Arabic-Hebrew Bilingual School - J. Schlam-Salman and Z. Bekerman5 The Presentation of Palestinians in Israeli Schoolbooks - N. Peled-ElhananPart 2: Media6 Palestinians, Arab American Muslims and the Media - N. Ayish7 The Political Discourse of the Israeli Occupation: The Spirit of Orientalism - A. Atawneh8 The War on Gaza: American and Egyptian Media Framing - N.H. El-Bilawi9 Language and the Art of Spin: Commendation and Condemnation in Media - L.N. BerlinPart 3: Dialogue10 Dis-covering Peace: Dominant and Counterdiscourse of the Middle East - S. Silberstein11 An Israeli-Palestinian Partnership: Can We Find a Joint Language? And Should We? - M. Zak12 Postcolonialism and the Jewish Palestinian Encounter - R. Halabi13 Checkpoint: Turning Discourse into Dialogue - S.J. Kent, R. Sibii and A.R. Napoleone14 Where is the Hope? A Call for Action - S. Wong, I. Nasser and L.N. Berlin