Race Media and International Affairs 101

Readings

Munayyer, Yousef. “Crisis Moments: Shifting the Discourse.” Journal of Palestine Studies 44, no. 1 (Autumn 2014): 97–105. Published by University of California Press on behalf of the Institute for Palestine Studies. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2014.44.1.97.

Chalabi, Mona. “Decades of spying and repression: the anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia”, The Guardian, May 23, 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/23/islamophobia-us-palestine-history (PDF)

Friedman, Thomas. “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom”, New York Times, Feb. 4, 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/30/opinion/thepoint?smid=url-share#friedman-middle-east-animals (PDF)

Tina Al-khersan, Azadeh Shahshahani. “The Colonial Order Prevails in Palestine” Yale Journal of International Law, July 2025. https://yjil.yale.edu/posts/2025-07-14-the-colonial-order-prevails-in-palestine-the-right-to-self-determination-from-a (PDF)

The New York Times distorts the Palestinian struggle: A case study of anti-Palestinian bias in US news coverage of the First and Second Palestinian Intifadas: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506352231178148

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