Tamir Sorek, professor of history at Penn State University, discusses his book “The Optimist: A social biography of Tawfiq Zayyad,” the story of one of the foremost Palestinian politicians and intellectuals in Israel of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s

Dr Rob Geist Pinfold discusses his book “Understanding Territorial Withdrawals: Israeli Occupations and Exits,” which offers a cross-section examination of several cases of territorial expansion and realignment throughout Israel’s history

Joseph Berger discusses his book “Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,” the first English-language biography of the iconic Jewish intellectual and Holocaust author

Isabel Kershner, Israel reporter for the New York Times, discusses her new book “The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for its Inner Soul”

Dr. Arik Rudnitzky, the head of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University, unveils data of a new comprehensive survey on Israel’s Arab community

Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Professor of History and Gender Studies at MIT, specializing in Turkish and Armenian history, discusses Armenian demands for a “national home” in the newly founded Turkish Republic, in the 1920s

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor (Emerita) of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, discusses her recent book, a reading of five constitutive Jewish texts that paints a comprehensive and thought-provoking portrait of Jerusalem as a physical and symbolic place

Kimmy Caplan, Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, discusses his co-edited book “Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society: Profiles, Trends and Challenges,” building on an analysis combining sociological observations with a historical long-view

Prof. Hagar Kotef analyzes the concept of “home” as both a physical endeavor and an object of attachment, against the backdrop of the Zionist settlement and the dispossession of Palestinians that it entailed

How have the failings of the late 20th-century economic system affected governance, and vice-versa? Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator for the Financial Times, explains