KPFA - Letters and Politics

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 History Collection) Support KPFA!! Get the Ancient Tales Pack: Women in Greek Mythography by Max Dashu, The Iliad & The Odyssey Translated by Emily Wilson, and the Letters & Politics Digital Ancient History Collection   The post KPFA Special – The Untold Story of Women Throughout History appeared first on KPFA.

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, and the yearning for home. It is about how we find community, how we find who gets to be in a particular community, and what does it mean that some people belong and other people don’t belong. It’s a poem that resonates with current issues we have in our culture   KPFA is offering The Ancient War & Sorrow Pack $250 With The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson Plus the Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection.  Support your Independent, Free-Speech Radio Station!!! The post KPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why It Still Matters Today & The Ancient War & Sorrow Pack appeared first on KPFA.

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. The post KPFA Special – The Iliad: War, Rage, and Sorrow appeared first on KPFA.

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.   The post The Age of Coexistence in Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

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 in memory of Noam Kaminer;” “The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry Culture: Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora;” and “A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.”   Image credit: Arc_de_Triumph, Wikipedia commons   The post A History of the The Jewish Diaspora appeared first on KPFA.

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, along with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.  He is the author of many books, including The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire;  Surviving Jewel: The Enduring Story of Christianity in the Middle East; The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire;  I Am a Palestinian Christian: God and Politics in the Holy Land: A Personal Testimony; and his latest, Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible.   The post A History of Zionism and Settler Colonialism (Part II) appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post A History of Zionism and Settler Colonialism (Part I) appeared first on KPFA.

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 at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and directed it between 2016 and 2022. Previously, he served as the Director of Research at the Brookings Institutions Doha Center. At the University of York, he founded and led the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit between 1993 and 2019. His book ‘After the Conflict: Reconstruction and Development in the Aftermath of War’, published by IB Tauris, was reprinted twice, in 2005 and 2010. He has also written books on the reconstruction of both Afghanistan and Iraq. His most recent book, ‘Understanding Influence: The Use of State building Research in British Policy’ was published by Ashgate in 2014. The post The Current Israel-Hamas Deal and the Future of the Palestinian People appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times.  Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History), and his latest, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe. The post Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State. The post The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery appeared first on KPFA.