16 avril 2020
Forum Transregionale Studien, « The ‘1979 Moment’ in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to an ‘Inward Turn’? », TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, ID : 10670/1.id8v85
By Friederike Pannewick In fall 1979, Egyptian President Sadat became the first Arab politician to travel to Israel on official business, where he outlined his plans for peace in a speech to the Israeli parliament. In doing so, the world came crashing down for a whole generation of leftwing intellectuals in the Arab world. This unilateral peace offering, which led to the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in 1979, left the key issues of the situation of Palestinian r...