The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)

Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)Pub date: 2026-08-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMost discourses about Israel or Palestine are morality plays of good guys vs bad guys. Egyptian-born Hussein Aboubakr Mansour takes a different approach, seeing the conflict as a self-reproducing system of political and economic extraction where Arab regimes, opposition movements, rival states, Western academics, NGOs, and Gulf monarchies like Qatar all convert Palestinian victimhood into their own forms of power, money, and meaning. Listen as Mansour speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about his childhood in an Egypt organized around the liberation of Palestine and explores why any exit from the system must run not through policy, but rather through the human need for meaning itself.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Russ Roberts, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.