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On April 11, 1981, two neighboring Palestinian Arab towns competed in a soccer match. Kafr Yassif had a predominantly Christian population, and Julis was a predominantly Druze town. When a fight broke out between fans, the violence quickly escalated, leaving a teenager from each town dead. In the days that followed the game, a group from Julis retaliated with attacks on the residents of Kafr Yassif. Shihade experienced that soccer match and the ensuing violence firsthand, leaving him plagued by questions about why the Israeli authorities did not do more to stop the violence and what led to the conflict between these two neighboring Arab towns. Drawing on interviews, council archives, and media reports, Shihade explores the incident and subsequent attack on Kafr Yassif in the context of prevailing theories of ethnic and communal conflict. He also discusses the policies of the Israeli state toward its Arab citizens. Countering Orientalist emphases on Arab and Islamic cultures as inherently unruly and sectarian, Shihade challenges existing theories of communal violence, highlighting the significance of colonialism's legacy, modernity, and state structures. In addition, he breaks new ground by documenting and analyzing the use of a traditional Arab conflict resolution method, sulha, which has received little sustained attention from scholars in the West. Shihade opens the toolkits of anthropology, history, political science, and studies of ethnic and communal conflict with the goals of exposing the impact of state policies on minority groups and encouraging humane remedial principles regarding states and society.

Through the lens of picnics, this article narrates the social and political history of a village in Galilee and its residents since 1948, which serves as a picture for the larger Palestinian experience and the consequences of the rupture created by the Zionist colonization of Palestine.

The event occurred in the context of increasing violence involving Druze attacks on non-Druze Palestinian Arabs in Israel, using military and police arms. Leaders in the Palestinian Arab community relied on Sulha, a traditional indigenous conflict resolution method, which has been used successfully to contain and manage community conflicts and violence. Sulha has been used for centuries by the local Arab community and draws on traditional Arab and Islamic principles that aim at containing violence and ending hostilities among individuals, groups and villages. Sulha is led by a group of community leaders that mediate among the fighting parties to bring an end to the hostilities (for more details on this method of conflict resolution, see Elias Jabbour, Sulha Making, 1996). After the establishment of the state of Israel, the Druze were considered a separate religious community by the state and they were later defined as a separate ethnic group and were drafted into the Israeli army.

In this paper I discuss how the events unfolding in the Arab world since early 2011, termed as the Arab Spring, are not easily understood as suggested by many western (as well as Arab) commentators and scholars. This is due, in part, to three dynamics, Orientalism, Euro-Centrism, and Modernity, that have a longer history in shaping our knowledge about the Arab world and the world at large. I will discuss these concepts and how they still have relevance in contributing to misunderstanding the so called \"Arab Spring\"