United Nations Security Council resolutions, memoirs of prisoners and terrorists, declarations of war, statements of political vision, reports from British Royal commissions—these are the documents that historians and students typically use to understand the complicated issues relating to the long-standing and ongoing Middle East conflict. In most cases, these documents are attempts to establish the truth, to state a political program, to promote change, or to account for past actions. They tell a large part of the story ... but not the whole story.

Artists have also sought to interpret the political problems that exist...