Foul language: The politicization of Arabic teaching in Israeli schools

Tel Aviv Review

English - October 09, 2015 16:00 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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Dr. Yonatan Mendel, the director of the Center for Jewish-Arab relations at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, is author of the recently published "The Creation of Israeli Arabic: Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel." Dr. Mendel explains to host Gilad Halpern why generations of Israeli high school students who specialized in Arabic are unable to string a sentence together.

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