Moving through Conflict: Dance and Politics in Israel proposes a framework for research and discussion of the changing nature of relations between Jews and Arabs as reflected in dance from the late 19th century Palestine until present-day Israel.

Part I - Community relations | Chapter 1: Community relations and Palestinian dance: introduction to Part I / Dina Roginsky | Chapter 2: About Arabs, Jews and dances: dance relations in Palestine and in the state of Israel / Dina Roginsky | Chapter 3: Belly dancing in Israel: body, embodiment, religion and nationality / Tovi Fenster | Chapter 4: Performing nationalism between the local and the global: women Palestinian dance teachers and choreographers in Israel / Hodel Ophir | Chapter 5: "There's no peace, let's start to create": Rabeah Morkus and Ilanit Tadmor create together / Ilanit Tadmor | Part II - Representational relations | Chapter 6: Dancing protest: introduction to Part II / Henia Rottenberg | Chapter 7: From Baruch Agadati to Arkadi Zaides: explicit and implicit representations of Arabs and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Israeli dance / Yael (Yali) Nativ | Chapter 8: Artistic activism: politics and dance in the works of Rami Be'er and Arkadi Zaides / Henia Rottenberg | Chapter 9: The ethics of binding: untangling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Jesse Zaritt's dancing body / Naomi M. Jackson