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/