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Not Just a Soccer Game
2011
Overview
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.
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780815632566, 0815632568, 0815651112, 9780815651116
