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May 15, 2020

While Egyptian Television Tries to Imagine a World without Israel, It Can’t Answer the Tough Questions

Would Linda Sarsour or Rashida Tlaib move to a “liberated Palestine”?

Set a century in the future, the Egyptian miniseries The End imagines a future where Israel has been destroyed, its Jews “have returned to their countries of origin,” and the U.S. has fractured into several smaller states. A characteristic response to the show’s critics, writes Nervana Mahmoud, is “Don’t we have the right to dream?” Indulging them, Mahmoud tries to imagine the realities this dream would entail:

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May 15, 2020

  1. It’s Time to Build in Jerusalem

    For reasons religious, historical, and strategic.

  2. While Egyptian Television Tries to Imagine a World without Israel, It Can’t Answer the Tough Questions

    Would Linda Sarsour or Rashida Tlaib move to a “liberated Palestine”?

  3. Israel-Diaspora Relations before Israel

    The practical challenges of “negating the exile.”

  4. Remembered as an Atheist, Spinoza Might Have Been a “God-Intoxicated Man” after All

    Kabbalah, the “ancient Hebrews,” and Europe’s most famous Jewish heretic.

  5. Three Yiddish Poems of Nature and Longing

    “The ever-resounding links of the golden chain.”