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Prof. Daniella Talmon-Heller of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University, discusses her new book Sacred Place and Sacred Time i…
5 years, 2 months ago
When Politics Got Nasty
How did America's political culture move from civil disagreement to visceral rage? In American Affective Polarization in Comparative Perspective, Noa…
5 years, 2 months ago
My Country, 'Tis of Thee, Right or Wrong?
Is love of country a blessing or a menace? Can a citizen of the world embrace universal values but also love one's country, and does it matter if old…
5 years, 2 months ago
Occupation: The Law Gives and the Law Takes Away
Michael Sfard, one of Israel's leading human rights lawyers, chronicles the evolution of the legal pillars of Israel's military occupation of Palesti…
5 years, 3 months ago
Israeli Democracy: Going, Going Gone?
Why is Israel hacking away at its own democratic institutions and values? The assault on the judiciary, primacy of the majority at the expense of min…
5 years, 3 months ago
Each Country – Populist in Its Own Way?
The nationalist-populist wave of the 21st century has affected Western liberal democracies, as well as countries from a very different political back…
5 years, 3 months ago
Brothers From Another Mother?
Rabbi Dr Tal Sessler, the incoming Dean of the Rabbinical School at the Academy of Jewish Religion in California, discusses his forthcoming book, Lei…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Arab Vote – Is There Such a Thing?
Dr Arik Rudnitzky, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African St…
5 years, 3 months ago
A Rainbow of Complexities in Palestine
Navigating queerness in the West Bank, Gaza or Israel, in refugee camps or as a Palestinian in the West Bank? It's complicated. Why is the LGBTQ glob…
5 years, 4 months ago
Idiomatic Expression
When Robert Berman, an American Jewish immigrant to Israel began studying Arabic, he didn't stop until he had written a book full of idioms. Together…
5 years, 4 months ago