Showcasing the latest developments in the realm of academic and professional research and literature, about the Middle East and global affairs. We discuss Israeli, Arab and Palestinian society, the Jewish world, the Middle East and its conflicts, and issues of global and public affairs with scholars, writers and deep-thinkers.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 9 hours 57 minutes
The Iron Lady of the Orient
Dr. Azriel Bermant, a historian and international relations professor at Tel Aviv University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his book Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East, exploring the relationship of Great Britain's legendary prime minister with...
Jo'burg on the Mediterranean: South African migration to Israel
Prof. Rebeca Raijman, a sociologist at the University of Haifa, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in Multigenerational Perspective, highlighting the distinctive characteristics of one of the English...
The burden of spoof: Satire in pre-state Israel
Dr. Leah Gilula, a theater studies scholar, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the limits of satirical plays during the British Mandate period, and their contribution to the creation of a homegrown Israeli culture. Song: Funset - Wake up This season of...
Continuation of policy by other means: Israel and the two-state solution
Dr. Guy Ziv, an assistant professor of international relations at the American University in Washington, DC, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the evolution of peacemaking policies among Israel's political and military circles, which are sometimes at...
Liberty & justice for most: American views on treatment of Israeli Arabs
Geoffrey Levin, a doctoral student in the Departments of History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Jewish Americans viewed Israel's treatment of its largest ethnic minority in the 1950s and...
How do you co-opt Jews in Russian?
Kathryn David, a fellow at New York University's Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how Jews and anti-Semitism have been utilized in the media war between Russia and Ukraine, against the backdrop of the...
Yom Kippur War: Anatomy of a (not so) missed opportunity
Prof. David Tal, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict at the University of Sussex, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the commonly-held belief that Israel could have avoided the devastating Yom Kippur War by accommodating to Egyptian...
A fistful of shekels: Ideology and symbolism in Israeli Westerns
Dr. Rachel Harris, an associate professor of Israeli literature and culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sits down with host Gilad Halpern to put the spotlight on a relatively obscure Israeli film genre - the Western. Song: Asaf...
Post-anti-Zionism: US Trotskyites and the Jewish state
Dr. Tony Michels, a historian of American Jewry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the changing attitudes of (predominantly Jewish) American Marxists towards Zionism during the Second World War and its immediate...
Multimedia Israel: New methods of teaching Zionism
Dr. Shira Klein, a historian at Chapman University in California, discusses with host Gilad Halpern new approaches to teaching the complexities of Israel to American undergraduate students. Song: Sivan Talmor - I'll Be This season of the Tel Aviv...