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Five Questions is a podcast by Arab Center Washington DC where we unpack some of the big issues of the day by asking guests five key questions to break those issues down.... more
FAQs about Five Questions:How many episodes does Five Questions have?The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.
February 07, 2024Yemen, Gaza, and Regional TurmoilMaysaa Shujaa al-Deen and Yousef Munayyer discuss the current situation in Yemen and the role of the Houthis in the regional unrest triggered by Israel's war on Gaza. Shujaa al-Deen is a senior researcher at the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies. ...more31minPlay
October 11, 2023Teaching Palestinian Stories Through FilmFarah Nabulsi and Yousef Munayyer discuss her film The Present, which tells the story of a Palestinian father and daughter in the West Bank trying to buy a wedding anniversary gift but having to navigate the Israeli system of apartheid on their way home. Nabulsi is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian filmmaker and human rights advocate....more21minPlay
October 04, 2023A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem TragedyNathan Thrall and Yousef Munayyer discuss Thrall's new book detailing the experience of a Palestinian father searching for his missing son and how the system of Israeli apartheid complicates his efforts at every turn. Nathan Thrall is also the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (Metropolitan, 2017). He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College....more17minPlay
September 19, 2023Tragedy and Resilience in MoroccoAida Alami and Yousef Munayyer discuss the devastation in Morocco and the status of the rescue and recovery efforts. Alami is a Moroccan reporter who has been contributing to The New York Times since 2011. Based in Rabat, Morocco, and Paris, she mainly covers migration, human rights, religion, politics and racism....more19minPlay
August 16, 2023Exporting the Weapons of ApartheidAntony Loewenstein and Yousef Munayyer discuss the Israeli arms industry and how it relates to Israel's military occupation of Palestine. Loewenstein is an independent investigative journalist, best-selling author, and filmmaker....more30minPlay
July 20, 2023Creeping Israeli AnnexationDahlia Scheindlin and Yousef Munayyer discuss the process of creeping Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Scheindlin is a Fellow at Century International, a public opinion expert and an international political and strategic consultant, as well as a scholar and a writer. ...more25minPlay
June 23, 2023India and Israel's Evolving RelationshipsAzad Essa and Yousef Munayyer discuss the implications of Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States and the relationship between India and Israel. Essa is a senior reporter for Middle East Eye based in New York City. He worked for Al Jazeera English between 2010-2018 and is the author of 'Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel.'...more39minPlay
April 07, 2023Why Palestinians Are Skipping Israel’s ProtestsDiana Buttu and Yousef Munnayer discuss the Israeli protests against Netanyahu proposed "judicial reform" and the Palestinian position on these unprecedented protests. Buttu is a Palestinian lawyer, writer, analyst, and a former legal advisor to the PLO....more25minPlay
January 25, 2023How Will American Jews React to Israel’s Far Right Government?Peter Beinart and Yousef Munayyer discuss the impact of Israel’s new government on the Jewish American community in the United States. Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, Editor at Large of Jewish Currents, and a Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace....more26minPlay
November 16, 2022Transnational PalestineNadim Bawalsa and Yousef Munayyer discuss Palestinian communities in Latin America as part of Bawalsa’s recent book, Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948.Nadim Bawalsa is a historian of modern Palestine. His work has appeared in Jerusalem Quarterly, the Journal of Palestine Studies, NACLA Report on the Americas, and edited volumes. He earned a Master’s in Arab Studies from Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in 2010 and a joint doctorate in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from New York University in 2017. In 2019–2020, Bawalsa was awarded a PARC-NEH fellowship in Palestine. He currently serves as Commissioning Editor at Al-Shabaka and as a freelance editor at JerusalemStory.com....more37minPlay
FAQs about Five Questions:How many episodes does Five Questions have?The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.