Prof. Smadar Lavie is a visiting professor at University College Cork’s Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, and a scholar in residence at UC Berkeley’s Beatrice Bain Research Group.

She is also the author of the recently-published Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture.

Prof. Lavie tells us about the modalities of race and gender in contemporary Israel, and – having suffered institutional harassment in Israel herself – how she became a subject of her own study.

This is a segment from The Tel Aviv Review: Listen to the full show.

Photo: From the cover of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, by Prof. Smadar Lavie.