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Rochelle Davis, "Refugees and Migrants."
Published in 2006
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Rochelle Davis taught two new graduate courses in Spring 2006. The “Refugees and Migrants” course explored issues related to refugees from Palestine and Sudan, including the current conflict in Darfur, and to regional migration within the Arab world and migrant labor coming to the Gulf. Each week the students prepared formal powerpoint presentations on selected topics in order to develop their presentation skills. The “Self, Society and Community in the Arab World” course focused on issues related to the perceived contradictions between modernity and tradition and individual and communal identities. Dr. Davis also organized a 10-week long film series of documentary and feature films related to the main issues of the course such as identity, sexuality, family, religion, and conflict. In the fall 2006 semester, she will be teaching courses on contemporary Arab society and Palestinian culture and society. She is currently writing a book manuscript on the Palestinian village memorial books about the villages destroyed in the 1948 war and the ways that Palestinians are composing the history of this period. In May 2006, she was invited to present a paper at the Critique conference on village memorial books as communal autobiographies.
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