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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Timothy Brennan is the author of several books, including At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now; Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies; and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation, and his latest, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. Professor Brennan teaches in the humanities at the University of Minnesota.
Guest: Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and A History of Modern Palestine.
Guest: Max Dashu is the founder of Suppressed Histories Archives. Since 1970 Max Dashu has been researching and documenting women’s history on a global scale. She is the author of several books including her latest Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissa, and Titanides. Ancient Tales Pack $350 (3 books and the L&P Digital Ancient … Continued
Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, the Odyssey by Homer, into English language. The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, … Continued
Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca.
Guest: Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. Professor Makdisi is the author of several books including, The Culture of Sectarianism, Artillery of Heaven, Faith Misplaced, and his latest, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World.
Guest: Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author or the editor of several books including “Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel 1948-1965;” “The independent left in Israel, 1967-1993: Essays … Continued
Guest: Mitri Raheb is the President of Dar al-Kalima University College in Bethlehem as well as the president of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. He serves as the Senior Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, Palestine. In 2015 he was awarded the Olof Palme Prize, … Continued
Guest: Benny Morris is a former journalist and a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Photo (c): Jewish community in the Land of Israel under Mamluk and Ottoman rule, 1895. Wikipedia
Guest: Dr. Sultan Barakat is a Professor of Public Policy at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an Honorary Professor at the University of York. Dr. Barakat has written extensively on issues of conflict resolution, humanitarian response, state building and post-conflict recovery and transition. Professor Barakat founded the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies … Continued
