{"id":2688,"date":"2021-08-27T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/contending-modernities"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:27:38","slug":"contending-modernities","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/contending-modernities","title":{"rendered":"Contending Modernities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contending Modernities<\/em>, an interdisciplinary initiative based at University of Notre Dame that aims to develop a nuanced understanding of how religious and secular forces interact in today's world, has published an article of Bashir Bashir, curator of <em>Regionalism and Borders <\/em>at the Kreisky Forum.<\/p>\n<p>In the article Bashir Bashir, who is also Associate Professor at the Open University in Israel, demonstrates how the recent book <em>The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement and Beyond <\/em>is closely intertwined with the work on <em>Alternatives to Partition<\/em> and his earlier book <em>The Holocaust and the Nakba,<\/em> and a result of a more than a decade long process of reflection and debate among scholars at the Kreisky Forum.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2688","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Contending Modernities - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/contending-modernities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Contending Modernities - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Contending Modernities, an interdisciplinary initiative based at University of Notre Dame that aims to develop a nuanced understanding of how religious and secular forces interact in today\u00b4s world, has published an article of Bashir Bashir, curator of Regionalism and Borders at the Kreisky Forum. 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