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SUMMARY:‘Language Policy and National Politics: Reflections on the Rise 
 of Israeli &quot\;New Right&quot\; and erasing Arabic as an Official Langu
 age’ - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20190117T170000Z
DTEND:20190117T190000Z
UID:TALK118003@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Dr Adam Coutts
DESCRIPTION:Challenges of Experimental government and public policy series
  \n\nSeminar followed by drinks reception.\n\nSimon Sainsbury Centre\, Jud
 ge Business School\, Seminar room 1.\n\nYonatan Mendel is a Senior Lecture
 r at the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the
  Negev\n\nYonatan Mendel is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle 
 East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, and the Director of M
 anarat: The Center for Jewish-Arab Relations at the Van Leer Jerusalem Ins
 titute. His research interests include the sociology of language\, languag
 e policy in Israel/Palestine and more generally in the Middle East\, the p
 olitics of Arabic-Hebrew translation\, and the status and history of the A
 rabic language in Israel/Palestine. Mendel is the author of The Creation o
 f Israeli Arabic: Security and Political Consideration in the Making of Ar
 abic Studies in Jewish Schools (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2014)\, co-author (wi
 th Ronald Ranta) of From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self: Palestinian C
 ulture in the Making of Israeli National Identity (2016\, Routledge)\, and
  co-editor (with Abeer AlNajjar) of Language\, Politics and Society in the
  Middle East: Essays in Honour of Yasir Suleiman (2018\, Edinburgh Univers
 ity Press). Mendel is also the deputy editor of Maktoob\, a series of book
 s dedicated to the translation of Arabic literature into Hebrew\, which is
  based on a bi-national and bi-lingual model.\n\n \n\n
LOCATION:Cambridge Judge Business School (http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/aboutus
 /location.html)
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