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NEW BOOK PROVIDES UNDERSTANDING FOR THE ANTIPATHY
AND HATE BETWEEN ARABS AND ISRAELIS
Dateline: August 8, 2005 ... Amman, Jordan
Contact Name: Mohanna Haddad
E-mail: haddad562002@Yahoo.com
Web Address: http://www.haddadmys.com
AMMAN, JORDAN - August 8, 2005 - "Guest in a Hostile Society: Notes of
the First Professor from an Arab University on Sabbatical Year in
Israel" is a vivid description of how an Arab grew up and was educated
in relation to the State of Israel and the Jewish society in
historical Palestine, which has been known as Israel since 1948.
Mohanna Haddad, the author and an anthropologist, describes the way of
life in the village. He reveals how he and his peers were socialized
and educated without any idea about what the Jewish State is except
that those Jews were Zionists who came with and under the protection
of the British Mandate, dismissed the Palestinians and stole their
land. The book tells how the author himself didn't learn anything of
the Jewish sufferings in Europe and what led them to seek a homeland
on which they always had made claims in the Diaspora until he came to
the Netherlands just before the 1967 war. There Haddad learned how very
little he knew of whom he was taught were his enemies.
As an academic staff member at a University in North Jordan, Haddad
describes the effects of the Palestinian presence in Jordan. The
Palestinian organizations had continued long after 1970 to influence
the political formation of the citizens, which deepened antipathy even
at the University.
The book describes the perplexity in which the average Arab in Jordan
and elsewhere continued to experience after the signing of the peace
agreement between Jordan and Israel. The average citizen had to turn
360 degrees from hating the Israeli society to becoming a friend,
however, very few did.
The visits Haddad made to Israel, along with the Sabbatical year at
Israeli Universities, taught him much about the stereotypes both
peoples have toward one another. His normalization with the Israeli
society caused him to experience social and cultural isolation at
work. The siege around him led him to quit and retire.
The book is written in a language that's easy to read since it aims at
contributing to peace in the Middle East.
About The Author
Mohanna Haddad is a Jordanian scholar who followed his academic career
in the Netherlands and wrote his Ph.D. thesis about "Arab Perspectives
of Judaism (1984)", which reveals how all those perceptions were
stereotypes. Since 1986 he has taught at Yarmouk University in Jordan
until his resignation in June 2004. He then was nominated as director
of the Regional Center for Human Security, which is now in re-
establishment while his job is frozen. He is currently working on a
book titled "Arab Pest: Failing Nationalism".
More information about the book and the author can be found at the
following web address: http://www.haddadmys.com/
For an interview or more information, please contact Mohanna Haddad at
00962-6-5234628 or 00962-79-5600453 (cell) or email: haddad562002@yahoo.com
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