The University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy on behalf of the Faculty of Arts and Science and in collaboration with IE University’s School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs, and Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs, curated a series of six live webinars on the history, politics and current conflict in the Middle East in spring 2024. These webinars have been adapted into a podcast format for on-demand listening.
The webinars provide viewers with intellectually challenging information on Middle East politics, the war between Israel and Hamas, and the broader history of the region. Moderated by a diverse roster of experienced journalists, each lecture panel features highly informed academic experts and reflects multiple positions with sensitivity and understanding.
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The University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy on behalf of the Faculty of Arts and Science and in collaboration with IE University’s School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs, and Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs, curated a series of six live webinars on the history, politics and current conflict in the Middle East in spring 2024. These webinars have been adapted into a podcast format for on-demand listening.
The webinars provide viewers with intellectually challenging information on Middle East politics, the war between Israel and Hamas, and the broader history of the region. Moderated by a diverse roster of experienced journalists, each lecture panel features highly informed academic experts and reflects multiple positions with sensitivity and understanding.
Episode 2: History and Politics of Israel and Palestine from 1881 - 1967
Six Conversations on the Modern Middle East
1 hour 17 minutes 42 seconds
1 year ago
Episode 2: History and Politics of Israel and Palestine from 1881 - 1967
A discussion of the conflicts, politics and narratives of the formative decades of Palestinian and Israeli history.
Emily Bazelon, staff writer at New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law, Yale Law School, is the session's moderator.
Joining the conversation are panelists Bernard Avishai and Ezzedine Fishere.
Avishai is a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College who has contributed regularly to The New Yorker about Israeli affairs and global business. Fishere is a Senior Lecturer of Middle East Politics at Dartmouth College, a novelist, and a diplomat. For the last two years, Avishai and Fishere have co-taught a course which has been described as an ‘academic peace process’, exploring Israeli and Palestinian histories in parallel, and inviting students to question, doubt and discuss along the way.
Six Conversations on the Modern Middle East
The University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy on behalf of the Faculty of Arts and Science and in collaboration with IE University’s School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs, and Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs, curated a series of six live webinars on the history, politics and current conflict in the Middle East in spring 2024. These webinars have been adapted into a podcast format for on-demand listening.
The webinars provide viewers with intellectually challenging information on Middle East politics, the war between Israel and Hamas, and the broader history of the region. Moderated by a diverse roster of experienced journalists, each lecture panel features highly informed academic experts and reflects multiple positions with sensitivity and understanding.
