Tag: Arab media

This episode's guest is Lt. Col. (res.) Avi Shalev, author of the book "Yoman al-Qasmi" and a researcher of Arab culture. Shalev analyzes the October 7 events through the prism of a Palestinian television series titled "Qabdat al-Ahrar," which aired about a year and a half before the attack. According to him, the series not only offered a chilling prediction of the attack's details, but also exposes the depth of the Israeli intelligence failure, which stemmed from a profound cultural misunderstanding of Palestinian society and Hamas.

This episode's guest is Mor Shapira, a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute). The conversation deals with how the agreement between the United States and Iran is covered and received in the Arab world, and with the new strategies the region's countries are adopting in its wake.

This episode of This Week in the Middle East features Mor Shapira, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher of Arab media at the MEMRI institute. The conversation deals with the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and the spread of fake news in the Arab world. It examines how these technologies affect politics, religion, and society in the Middle East, especially in the context of the current war.

This episode's guest is content creator and YouTuber Tal Oran, also known as The Traveling Clatt. Oran, who became famous as a travel blogger, has changed the focus of his work since the start of the war and now uses his platform for Israeli advocacy. In the conversation, he explains his unique approach, which focuses on addressing the Arab world from a Mizrahi Jewish identity, and his theory about the identity of the peoples of the Middle East.

In this episode, linguist and Iran expert Dr. Tamar Eilam Gindin joins the podcast for a conversation about the situation in Iran following the recent war. Dr. Eilam Gindin analyzes the regime's response to the war, its surprising use of pre-Islamic Iranian nationalism, social media dynamics, scenarios for the regime's future, and the country's severe internal crises, particularly the water crisis.

This episode's guest is Dr. Mor Shapira, a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). The conversation deals with reactions in the Arab and Muslim world to the September 2024 murder of the American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

The episode features Dr. Adi Schwartz, a research fellow at the Misgav Institute and the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, and the co-author of the books "The War of Return" and the new sequel, "The October 7th War". According to Schwartz, the October 7th attack is not a new event in its essence, but rather another manifestation, a particularly cruel and tragic one, of the Palestinian idea of return, which has been at the heart of the conflict for a hundred years.

The episode features Mor from the MEMRI institute for a conversation about the reactions in the Arab world to a proposal attributed to Donald Trump, which suggests evacuating the residents of Gaza, either temporarily or permanently. Mor analyzes how the Arab media views the idea, Trump himself, and the implications for the Palestinian issue.

In this episode of "This Week in the Middle East", Boris Gorelik hosts Dr. Mor Shapiro, a lecturer in Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the Mitvim Institute. The two discuss the unprecedented security operation launched by the Palestinian Authority in the Jenin refugee camp, aiming to restore its governance in an area considered the terror capital of the West Bank.

The episode features Dr. Mor Shapiro, a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the MEMRI Middle East Media Research Institute. Shapiro analyzes the diverse reactions in the Arab world to Donald Trump's victory in the United States presidential election, and explains why different countries and actors view his return to the White House in different lights.