Both of the presentations today were very well done, and I am excited to see what everyone else is going to present!
The 1st Presentation:
These questions would be really interesting to take to an ever wider pool of people to see how the results would change. The overall conclusion appears that everybody who identifies with one of the three Abrahamic religions gernally views Jerusalem as a sacred city. Creating interview questions is so difficult, and I wonder, for future reserach purposes, how the questions could be phrased so that 'sacred' and 'conflit' are not in the questions. That way we can see if those two aspects are a part of how they see Jerusalem.
The 2nd Presentation:
I am interested now in looking more into 'Chefs for Peace'. Identity is so strongly connected to food, and as was mentioned in the presentation, politics also joins in. It seems that the questions 'who had it first', or 'the appropriate name' for certain dishes gets impossible to really answer. Everything draws influences on what was presented to them in the past. Who 'owns' a certain dish is really determined by how far the person wants to look back in the history of the food's origin. The politics around growing and picking zatar is something that I never heard of. It makes me wonder how many people are fined each year for trying to pick the spice, and how hard it is to grow inside.
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