Ep 2 pt 1 of 3 - The Dawn of Ottoman Jerusale...

In light of the Zionist state's repeated attacks on the grave of Izzidine al Qassam, I have decided to repost this episode. The episode follows the life, death, and legacy of Sheikh Izzidine al Qassam.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/preoccupation-a-not-so-brief-hi ...  Show more

The years between 1948 and 1964 are often thought of as "the lost years", wherein a bewildered Palestinian people scrambled to pick up the pieces of their shattered world. This episode challenges this characterization and introduces listeners to the resistance movement ...

We are going to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most controversial subjects of your time. And in true fashion, we're going to try our best to avoid bias. This will be a multi-part series. In this first episode, we discuss the history of the Jews and Arabs. We start from ...  Show more

In this episode I have interviewed Gabriel Polley, winner of the Ibrahim Dakkak Award for the best essay published in 2021 by the Jerusalem Quarterly. Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in ...  Show more

Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) the book by Louis Fishman looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This work presents an innovative analysis of the strugg ...  Show more

For a brief moment in the history of Acre, there was a Hebrew community that linked old and new settlements. It had a national-Zionist orientation and consisted of Jews of local and Mizrachic origin. This community is no longer visible in the cityscape, and its history has disapp ...  Show more