Facundo Pereminksy and Joseph Kababie are two recent alumni of Tel Aviv University’s Sofaer Global MBA program who are using their training as they launch their new startup, Camino TLV. In this episode of The Global Connection podcast, the two chat with host Anna Sajecki about their move from Argentina and Mexico to Tel Aviv, their experience in the Sofaer Global MBA program, what it means to be an entrepreneur, and their vision for Camino – a new local company that offers a new community space for online retailers.   Want to learn more about the Sofaer Global MBA program? Visit www.international.tau.ac.il/Sofaer_Global_MBA   *This episode was filmed before October 7

Ran Tal is a documentary filmmaker and the head of the international MFA documentary film program at Tel Aviv University’s Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. In this episode of The Global Connection, Tal talks to host Anna Sajecki about his career capturing Israeli stories, how historical and individual forces have interacted to shape Israel and its meaning, and his most recent documentary films 1341 Frames of Love and War (about celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am) and What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace. They also chat about the two-year MFA program in documentary film and what it offers students. Interested in the international MFA documentary film program? Learn more at www.international.tau.ac.il/Television_and_Cinema *This episode was filmed before October 7.

What is modernity? How has it shaped the way we live and think? In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki speaks with Dr. Yoav Fromer about a course he teaches called “Modernity and Its Discontents.” The course is one of the most popular taught through Tel Aviv University’s International BA in Liberal Arts, which this year is celebrating its 10-year anniversary.   Learn more about TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://international.tau.ac.il/Liberal_Arts   Keywords: modernity, modernism, discontents, enlightenment, reason, democracy, nature, individuals, individualism, romanticism, postmodernism, technology, war, abstraction, capitalism, Liberal Arts, humanism, art, humanities, Tel Aviv University, Israel   Unit: Global podcast 27 09 23 Yoav Fromer edited   Episode Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbIEfMyu7M  

As technology continues to change how we live, what questions should we ask? Nitzan Waisberg is a lecturer, consultant, and design thinker who served as a consulting assistant professor at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design before returning to Tel Aviv. In this episode of The Global Connection, Waisberg talks with Anna Sajecki about a course she teaches, called “Thinking Critically About Technology,” through the Innovation and Entrepreneurship track as part of TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts.   Learn more about the Innovation and Entrepreneurship track offered through TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/ac_tracks

In this episode of The Global Connection, the spotlight is on social media and its relationship to the Israel-Hamas war, as well as what today’s digital platforms mean for the future of humanity. This episode features Dr. Carmel Vaisman, a digital culture researcher and associate lecturer at TAU’s Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, as well as with TAU’s Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities. The guest host is Ben Bright: an international master’s student and a member of a Tel Aviv University (TAU) task force fighting disinformation online.   Learn more about the Digital Culture and Communications track offered through TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/ac_tracks   Learn more about the TAU International Students Task Force: https://international.tau.ac.il/student-task-force  

Prof. Ehud Toledano is the former Director of TAU's Program in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the Department of Middle East and African History. In this episode of TAU Unbound, he shares with host Ido Aharoni his take on what Israel should do next, how and when. Toledano provides a comprehensive overview of the actors in the conflict: Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria, ISIS, PA, Turkey, KSA, USA and more. Between 2004 and 2008, Toledano served as the Director of the Graduate School of History, and from 2005 to 2009, he was a member of the University Board of Directors, representing the University Senate. He received his PhD from Princeton University and conducted extensive research in Istanbul, London, and Paris. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the American Research Center in Cairo, Egypt between 1979 and 1981, a Senior Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1986/7), a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (1993/4), and Visiting Professor at UCLA (between 1999 and 2001). 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - Political, diplomatic and military aspects of the attack on 7.10 01:34 - The response must be the destruction of the Hamas organization 02:23 - The political move to destroy Hamas. Expulsion of the leadership 05:54 - The military move in the Gaza Strip 10:35 - "The day after the war" 16:38 - The Arab world 19:03 - Iran and its involvement in the events of 7.10 26:00 - Turkey and its involvement in the events of 7.10 29:10 - Saudi Arabia and its involvement in the events of 7.10 32:10 - Russia and its involvement in the events of 7.10 lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

Our guest is Prof. Emeritus Thalma Lobel former head of TAU’s Psychology Department and Dean of Students. Thalma is a prolific writer who authored several bestsellers on the practical applications of psychological methodologies. In this episode, Lobel shares with host Ido Aharoni ways to reduce stress and mitigate anxiety during wartime in Israel. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Tel Aviv University and conducted her post doctoral work at Harvard University. As Dean of students Lobel promoted several social impact programs aimed at narrowing gaps in the Israeli society. 00:00 - Intro 02:06- The psychological rationale behind the actions of Hamas 03:30 - brutality 06:10 - Practice to improve the environment, to help deal with stress and fear 13:00 - More ways to reduce stress 13:44 - The importance of nature, causes a decrease in stress levels and an increase in cognitive performance 18:54 - A virtual tour of landscapes and sounds from nature also reduce stress 19:19 - It is important to listen to the voices of nature 21:00 - In order to relax it is important to reduce watching news updates. Make sure to exercise 23:34 - Tips for those staying in the protected area. lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

In this episode of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni is interviewing prolific Israeli academic and writer Prof. Uriya Shavit of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities. Shavit, who received his PhD from TAU, talks about the origins of Hamas, its ties throughout the region and Israel’s options. Prof. Shavit is a professor of Islamic studies and, since 2016, has served as the head of TAU’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and its Graduate Program in Religious Studies. Since 2021, Shavit serves as head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, as well as co-head of the Shandong-Tel Aviv Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Shavit also worked as a senior staff writer and editor for Haaretz and other Israeli newspapers and authored novels and books for young readers. He specializes in the study of contemporary Islamic law, theology, and politics, as well as the study of Muslim minorities in the West. 00:00 - Intro 01:58 - The roots of the Hamas organization are anti-Semitism. 02:48 - Signs in a world of denial such as Holocaust denial 03:18 - Violence also by Muslims against Muslims 04:40 - The BDS movement 08:41- The struggle of the Hamas movement is against the West in general 09:50 - ISIS 11:10 - after the war - military government/Hamas government 13:39 - Hamas ISIS VS 18:58 - Islam in Europe 26:45 - Pro-Islamic propaganda in private universities in the United States lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

This new episode of TAU Unbound introduces TAU Vice Provost Prof. Eyal Zisser, who also serves as the holder of The Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East. Dean of Humanities (2010-2015), Director of the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (2007-2010) and Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Prof. Zisser covered in this conversation the regional perspective with an emphasis on Iran and Syria. Zisser wrote extensively on the history and the modern politics of Syria and Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Among his books: Assad’s Syria at a Crossroads (Tel Aviv, 1999); Asad’s Legacy – Syria in Transition (New York, 2000); Lebanon: the Challenge of Independence (London, 2000); Faces of Syria (Tel Aviv, 2003) Commanding Syria, Bashar al-Asad’s First years in Power (London, 2006); The Bleeding Cedar (Tel Aviv, 2009), Syria :Protest, Revolution, Civil War (Tel Aviv, 2014). He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University. He was a visiting professor in Cornell University and a visiting research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - To what extent is the 7.10 war a war with Iran? 03:30 - Hamas versus ISIS 07:39 - The west VS the rest 10:16 - The Hamas movement 11:00 - Advice to Israel's leaders 13:06 - The population in the Gaza Strip 15:48 - Qatar involvement 16:20 - The government and the reality in Syria regarding the situation in Israel 18:40 - The involvement of the United States in conflicts in the Middle East - Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran 27:39 - The current government in Israel and its policy towards the Gaza Strip 31:20 - Israel after the war lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il

In this special episode of The Global Connection, guest host Maria Ellul – an International student and member of a Tel Aviv University (TAU) task force fighting disinformation – interviews TAU historian Prof. Havi Dreifuss, who is the head of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research. Together they discuss the meaning of antisemitism, its historical and political contexts, and the current rise in anti-Jewish violence around the world.   Learn more about the TAU International Students Task Force: https://international.tau.ac.il/student-task-force   Learn more about TAU’s Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology: https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/jstudies