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The Global Connection - Episode #33: From the Arab Uprisings to the October 7 War

How do Middle East politics provide further insight into what happened on October 7 and the way the Israel-Hamas war is being fought? And how does this context help us to understand where to go from here?
 
In this episode of The Global Connection, Maria Ellul – an international MA student at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and a member of the student-led movement @IsraelWarStory – interviews Brandon Friedman, the director of research at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Together they unpack politics in the Middle East and discuss a new international summer program Friedman is launching, called “The Regional Politics of the Middle East: From the 2010-2011 Arab Uprisings to the October 7 War.”
 
Want to learn more about the new summer program? Visit www.international.tau.ac.il/middle_east_israel_studies/
 
Interested in getting an on-the-ground perspective on October 7 and the war from international students at TAU? Follow Maria and others on Instagram: www.instagram.com/israelwarstory/

The Global Connection - Episode #32: Celebrating 20 Years of Musical Concerts

Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann-Mehta School of Music is one of the liveliest schools on campus, and this year the school is celebrating 20 seasons of musical performances. In this musical episode of The Global Connection, Anna Sajecki speaks with Dr. Uri Binjamin Rom, the head of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, about what makes TAU’s music school so special.
 
Want to attend one of the events as part of this year’s music season? Visit https://tau.smarticket.co.il/ 
Is music your calling and passion? Learn more about the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music International Program: https://international.tau.ac.il/bmsm_program_ma
 
Finally, for a taste of the Music School's promising vocal talents, listen to soprano Nour Darwish in Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" with the BMSM Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Honorary President Zubin Mehta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvrHjfppIpk 
 
*This episode was filmed before October 7

The Global Connection - Episode #31: Managing and Resolving Conflict

Sean Tsivian and Daniel Canosa are two students in Tel Aviv University’s International MA program in Conflict Resolution & Mediation. In this episode of The Global Connection podcast,
they chat with Anna Sajecki about their experiences with the program, why there’s no such thing as absolute truth, and the lessons they’ve learned.
 
Interested in TAU’s Conflict
Resolution & Mediation program? Learn more at www.international.tau.ac.il/conflict_resolution
 
*This episode was filmed
before October 7

TAU Unbound - Episode #44: TAU’s response to the October 7th crisis - a view from the inside

October 7th created a massive crisis in all higher learning institutions in Israel and TAU is no exception. Close to 6000 men and women, students, faculty & administration - were called to serve in the army reserves. Most of them are still there three months later. Hundreds of students were directly affected by the massacre and its aftermath. Se veral students, children of faculty and their families were murdered in the music festival. How did TAU cope with this mega crisis?
In this episode host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is engaged in a discussion with TAU Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Amos Elad and two bright students who now serve in the reserves: Shir Shahar of the Faculty of Medicine and Aviv Kurnas of the Air Force.

TAU Unbound - Episode #43: Ido Aharoni & Michael Milshtein on What’s Next in the Gaza War

Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting the prolific Dr. Michael Milshtein, who is the head of the Forum for Palestinian Studies at the Moshe Dayan Center. Michael served as an advisor for Palestinian affairs to COGAT - IDF's Coordinator of Government Operations in the Territories (2015-2018), and as the head of the Palestinian arena in the IDF Intelligence Division (at the rank of lieutenant colonel). As part of his duties, he was involved in shaping Israeli policy in the Palestinian area. His expertise is the strategic analysis of the Middle East as well as issues pertaining to collective memory, popular culture and generational struggles in the regional context.
Here Aharoni and Milshtein explore the possible scenarios facing Israel, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and other actor in this regional arena

TAU Unbound - Episode #42: Ido Aharoni and Galia Feit on Philanthropy in Israel These Days

Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting in the new episode Adv. Galia Feit who is a social cause lawyer and the executive director of the Law and Philanthropy Center at the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. Galia’s encounter with philanthropy and the establishment of a philanthropy research institute is at the center of our conversation.
Contrary to what most people say about the Israelis, that they are not known for their charitable contributions, the response to the atrocities of October 7th indicates otherwise: the philanthropic response to the 7/10 massacre and the Iron Swords War had been overwhelmingly positive - in three circles: (a) Spontaneous reaction of the Israelis - organizations - volunteering and donations, (b) The response of institutionalized philanthropy - strategic donors, philanthropic foundations, Jewish communities abroad, and (c) Philanthropy's response to the outbreak of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism - perhaps we can talk another time.
In this conversation Aharoni & Feit also touch upon the deficient response of Israel’s government since that which does not work well in times of routine (government infrastructure for social services) cannot possibly work well in an emergency. Yet, Feit is highlighting an extraordinary picture of civil mobilization and social solidarity post 10/7.
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TAU Unbound - Episode #41: Ido Aharoni & Boaz Hameiri on Conflict Resolution in the Age of Information Saturation

In this episode our host Ido Aharoni Aronoff is hosting Dr. Boaz Hameiri a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Evens Program in Conflict Management and Mediation at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Social Studies. He also serves as a Human Development Lab researcher at the Boris Mints Institute at TAU. He received his PhD in social psychology at Tel Aviv University in 2019, and then did his Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, and Postdoctoral Innovation Lab Fellowship at Beyond Conflict.
Hameiri’s specialty is the examination of different psychological barriers to attitude change and conflict resolution (e.g., victimhood), and the development of psychological interventions (e.g., paradoxical thinking) to address these barriers and promote better intergroup relations and conflict resolution.
Here, Aharoni & Hameiri explore ways to overcome the challenge presented by the October 7th massacre and its aftermath.

The Global Connection - Episode #30: Discovering a Literary Voice in Tel Aviv

Dr. Dara Barnat is head of the Division of Languages at Tel Aviv University (TAU), and author of the poetry collections Headwind Migration, In the Absence and The City I
Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv. In this episode of The Global Connection, Barnat joins host Anna Sajecki to talk about her journey to Tel Aviv as an international student, discovering her poetic voice in Israel, the influence of Walt Whitman, and capturing Tel Aviv in poetry.
 
Interested in discovering your
own voice in Tel Aviv? Join us at TAU’s international school! www.international.tau.ac.il
 
*This episode was filmed
before October 7

The Global Connection - Episode #29: The Road to Entrepreneurship – From Latin America to Startup Nation

Facundo Pereminksy and Joseph Kababie are two recent alumni of Tel Aviv University’s Sofaer Global MBA program who are using their training as they launch their new startup, Camino
TLV. In this episode of The Global Connection podcast, the two chat with host Anna Sajecki about their move from Argentina and Mexico to Tel Aviv, their experience in the Sofaer Global MBA program, what it means to be an entrepreneur, and their vision for Camino – a new local company that offers a new community space for online retailers.
 
Want to learn more about the
Sofaer Global MBA program? Visit www.international.tau.ac.il/Sofaer_Global_MBA
 
*This episode was filmed
before October 7

The Global Connection - Episode #28: Israel and the Forces of History

Ran Tal is a documentary filmmaker and the head of the international MFA documentary film
program at Tel Aviv University’s Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. In this episode of The Global Connection, Tal talks to host Anna Sajecki about his
career capturing Israeli stories, how historical and individual forces have interacted to shape Israel and its meaning, and his most recent documentary films 1341 Frames of Love and War (about celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am) and What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace. They also chat about the two-year MFA program in documentary film and what it offers students.
Interested in the international MFA
documentary film program? Learn more at www.international.tau.ac.il/Television_and_Cinema
*This episode was filmed before
October 7.