| Gideon Katz - The Fear of Judaism in Israeli Culture |
Gideon Katz discusses some of the mure surprising aspect of Israeli secularism |
Gideon Katz |
27 May, 2022 |
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| Nitzan Lebovic: Is Zionism a “Left-Wing Melancholy”? |
Nitzan Levobic discusses Zionism and melancholy, through the woks of Israel Zarchi |
Nitzan Levobic |
18 May, 2022 |
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| Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman - Hollywood and Israel: A History |
The authors of a recently published book dealing with the history of Hollywood's relation with Israel discuss some of their findings |
Tony Shaw, Giora Goodman |
12 May, 2022 |
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| Developments in Jordan |
An explanation and discussion of the modern history and recent political developments in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. |
Piotr Schulkes, Guy Fiennes, Matthew Smith |
20 April, 2022 |
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| 2022 New Year’s Episode |
The entire Almanac team gets together to discuss what they believe was the most important event in the region over the past year, something they are watching for in the region in 2022, and their favorite book on the Middle East. |
Piotr Schulkes, Guy Fiennes, Isabella Cibelli Du Terroil, Oliver Franks, Kalyani Nedungadi, Matthew Smith, Adam Abdalla |
17 January, 2022 |
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| Graffiti, music, and football ultras: expressing dissent in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) |
Piotr Schulkes, Adam Abdallah, and Kalyani Nedungadi discuss non-official ways in expressing dissent, comparing Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine. |
Kalyani Nedungadi, Piotr Schulkes, Adam Abdalla |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Haggai Ram - The Social Life of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel: A Global History |
Haggai Ram charts the (modern) history of Hashish in the Holy Land |
Haggai Ram |
1 December, 2021 |
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| Amnon Aran - Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War |
Amnon Aran maps the development of Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War |
Amnon Aran |
18 November, 2021 |
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| Michael Karayanni - Religion and State among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: A Multicultural Entrapment |
Michael Karayanni considers how the Israeli construction of religion and politics shapes the live Palestinian-Arabs in the state. |
Michael Karayanni |
18 November, 2021 |
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| Eldad Ben Aharon - Supporting Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide |
Eldad Ben-Aharon charts the history of Israel's refusal to recognise the Armenian Genocide. |
Eldad Ben-Aharon |
3 November, 2021 |
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| Kathrin Bachleitner - A road towards atonement? Why only West Germany came to “atone” for the Nazi crimes. |
Kathrin Bachleitner remaps the road that led to Germany's "atonement" for the Holocaust |
Kathrin Bachleitner |
27 October, 2021 |
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| Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema |
Join us for Booktalk Episode 9, Professor Deborah Starr (Cornell University) in conversation about her new book, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, published by California Press. |
Deborah Starr, Walter Armbrust |
21 October, 2021 |
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| Atalia Omer - Pathways toward a Jewish Israeli Restorative Ethics |
Atalia Omer discusses restorative justice practices and the possibilities (and limits) of Jewish critiques of Zionism. |
Atalia Omer, Yaacov Yadgar |
20 October, 2021 |
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| Independence and Colonialism in the Western Sahara |
Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, and Felix Walker discuss the recent development in the Western Sahara, caused by America’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory. |
Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker |
6 October, 2021 |
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| Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics |
Join us for Booktalk Episode 8, Dr Carl Rommel (University of Helsinki) in conversation about his new book Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, published by University of Texas Press in July 2021. |
Carl Rommel, Walter Armbrust |
29 September, 2021 |
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| Making Film in Egypt |
Join us as we listen to Dr Chihab El Khachab (King’s College, Cambridge) in conversation about his new book – Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry. Published by American University in Cairo Press. |
Chihab El Khachab |
18 May, 2021 |
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| Booktalk episode 6: Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis |
For our sixth episode of MEC Booktalk, guest author David Warren (Washington University in St Louis) discusses his recent book, Rivals in the Gulf, published by Routledge in January 2021. |
David Warren, Usaama al-Azami |
12 April, 2021 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Elana Shapira: Berta Zuckerkandl and Her Circle: Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism |
Elana Shapira discusses the tangled relationship between Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism |
Elana Shapira |
9 March, 2021 |
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| A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic |
Guest author Dr Fatemeh Shams (Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania) talks with Booktalk host Dr Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford). |
Fatemeh Shams, Zuzanna Olszewska |
4 March, 2021 |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Maja Gildin Zuckerman: The Pragmatism of Proto-Zionism: Tracing Jewish Nation-building through a Cultural Sociological Framework |
Maya Gildin Zuckerman discusses a 1897 tour from London to Palestine as a moment in the Zionist meaning making process. |
Maja Gilding Zuckerman |
23 February, 2021 |
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| History, politics, and Anecdotes with Eugene Rogan |
Piotr Schulkes and Eugene Rogan discuss the importance of history in contemporary Middle Eastern politics, how the West discusses the region, and a number of stories from Rogan’s time at Oxford. |
Piotr Schulkes, Eugene Rogan |
22 February, 2021 |
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| Jamie Stern-Weiner: IHRA: The Politics of a Definition |
Jamie Stern-Weiner (Oxford) traces the genesis and evolution of a controversial 'working definition' of antisemitism. |
Jamie Stern-Weiner |
16 February, 2021 |
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| The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought |
Join us for the fourth MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Andrew March about his new book, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, published by Harvard University Press, 2021 |
Usaama al-Azami, Andrew March |
16 February, 2021 |
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| Lebanon’s Economic and political crisis |
Piotr Schulkes, Felix Walker, and Michael Memari cover the ongoing crises in Lebanon’s political and economic systems. |
Michael Memari, Felix Walker, Piotr Schulkes |
9 February, 2021 |
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| Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition |
Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. |
Ahmed El Shamsy, Usaama al-Azami |
7 February, 2021 |
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