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Today, the Hebrew city of Tel Aviv gleams white against the desert sky, its Bauhaus-inspired architecture betraying few traces of what came before it: the Arab city of Jaffa. In \u003ci\u003eWhite City, Black City\u003c\/i\u003e, the Israeli architect and author Sharon Rotbard offers two intertwining narratives, that of colonized and colonizer. It is also a story of a decades-long campaign of architectural and cultural historical revision that cast Tel Aviv as a modernist \"white city\" emerging fully formed from the dunes while ignoring its real foundation--the obliteration of Jaffa. Rotbard shows that Tel Aviv was not, as a famous poem has it, built \"from sea foam and clouds\" but born in Jaffa and shaped according to its relation to Jaffa. 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