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๐ Book: The Education Riddle
โ๏ธ Author: Dawood Vaid
๐ Publisher: Self-Published
Chapters:
0:00 - Episode trailer
0:26 - Intro
1:38 - Author's bio
2:55 - Definition of Education Riddle & Concept Schooling
6:25 - Rip Van Winkle and stagnation in education
9:24 - The Triangle Theory: The Educator, The Educated, and The Environment
13:40 - Jesse Owens & Adolf Hitler
16:31 - Bahadur Shah Zafar - The Last Mughal Emperor
18:49 - Nelson Mandela
21:44 - Sun Tzu & The Art of War
27:57 - Socrates & The Thirst for Knowledge
30:40 - Dawood & Omar's reading strategies
37:58 - Napoleon Hill & Andrew Carnegie
41:10 - Skills vs Certification
46:07 - Syllabus vs Curriculum
48:41 - Author's book recommendations
52:13 - Outro
Author's bio:
โ๏ธ Dr. Dawood Vaid is an educationist and trainer.
โ๏ธ He is is co-founder of Sky Education, a pan-Asia education organization.
โ๏ธ Working with scientists as a Patent & Trademark Analyst, in Moscow and Switzerland, he observed and compared different education pedagogy and created 'fun-learn' approach to learning.
โ๏ธ In four years, the school he runs has expanded to 24 cities across India, and has 6,500 students.
โ๏ธ Dr. Dawood Vaid has also authored "T.A.L.K.: Speak with Ease & Confidence".
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๐ Book: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction
โ๏ธ Author: Martin Bunton
๐ง Show: Book Cafรฉ Podcast
๐ Publisher: Oxford University Press @OxfordUniversityPress
๐ต๐ธ Prof. Dr. Martin Bunton from the University of Victoria @universityofvictoria6115 discusses his 2013 book.
๐ต๐ธ This first edition of the book covers the the years 1897 to 2007.
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โ๏ธ Author: Andrew Gowers
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โ๏ธ Author: Antony Loewenstein
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๐ Book: Erasing Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Rebecca Ruth Gould
๐ Publisher: Verso Books @VersoBooks
๐๏ธ Host: @omarrasman
In episode 37, we speak to Prof. Dr. Rebecca Ruth Gould about her 2023 book "Erasing Palestine".
Author's bio:
๐ต๐ธ Prof. Dr. Rebecca Ruth Gould was born and educated in the United States.
๐ต๐ธ She received her BA in Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
๐ต๐ธ After working in publishing for a few years, Gould moved to Tbilisi, Georgia in 2004, where she learned Georgian and started to learn Persian.
๐ต๐ธ Having lived for two years in Tbilisi, she returned to the United States where she started her PhD at Columbia University's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department for Middle East, South Asian, & African Studies.
๐ต๐ธ She currently works at the SOAS University of London @soasuni
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๐ Book: The Punishment Of Gaza
โ๏ธ Author: Gideon Levy
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/C7Tkny47fXs?si=gvIFL9FBphKjptBM
๐ Book: On Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Frank Barat
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/PRf1Pk4UbF8?si=l55G1zSmwcGbldoU
๐ Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Ilan Pappรฉ
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โ๏ธ Author: Zachary Foster
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/eGDTtlQNh_0?si=JA2AHQIHRBst2rOU
๐ Book: Palestine In Israeli School Books
โ๏ธ Author: Nurit Peled-Elhanan
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/rXs1zkvHDGc?si=ct85SNylCYk_stDq
๐ Book: Arafat: The Biography
โ๏ธ Author: Andrew Gowers
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/7qVKnorXELE?si=zEU4d-T-S-3F8dEO
๐ Book: The Palestine Laboratory
โ๏ธ Author: Antony Loewenstein
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/51-VVciGz88?si=-tRLPPXNfkpEM3io
๐ Book: Erasing Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Rebecca Ruth Gould
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/lPxtYvfS0kk?si=S0Ok3SFxh0NF6PARSupport the Show.
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๐ Book: The Palestine Laboratory
โ๏ธ Author: Antony Loewenstein
Publishers: โโ โโ โโ
Author's bio:
๐ต๐ธ Antony Loewenstein is an Australian-German freelance investigative journalist, author, and film-maker.
๐ต๐ธ He co-founded the Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV). He won the 2019 Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize, one of Australia's leading peace awards, for his work on Israel/Palestine.
๐ต๐ธ In 2021, he co-founded Declassified Australia with fellow journalist Peter Cronau. The news website critically reports on Australia's relations with the world.
๐ต๐ธ He and UK film-maker Dan Davies co-directed the Al Jazeera documentary Under the Cover of Covid.
๐ต๐ธ In 2023, he released the book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World. The book was a long-list finalist in the 2023 Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing and a best-selling book in New Zealand.
๐ต๐ธ In November 2023, Antony Loewenstein was awarded the Walkley (โโ ) Book Award for Longform Journalism. The book also won the People's Choice award and was also shortlisted for the 2024 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction.
Antony's bibliography:
After Zionism | The Palestine Laboratory | Pills, Powder and Smoke | Disaster Capitalism | Profits of Doom | For God's Sake | Left Turn | The Blogging Revolution | My Israel Question
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โ๏ธ Author: Gideon Levy
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๐ Book: On Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Frank Barat
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/PRf1Pk4UbF8?si=l55G1zSmwcGbldoU
๐ Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Ilan Pappรฉ
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/T-CWN4YZuAI?si=gulwS78hic1VxS20
๐ Book: The Invention Of Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Zachary Foster
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/eGDTtlQNh_0?si=JA2AHQIHRBst2rOU
๐ Book: Palestine In Israeli School Books
โ๏ธ Author: Nurit Peled-Elhanan
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/rXs1zkvHDGc?si=ct85SNylCYk_stDq
๐ Book: Arafat: The Biography
โ๏ธ Author: Andrew Gowers
๐ง Podcast: https://youtu.be/7qVKnorXELE?si=zEU4d-T-S-3F8dEO
X / Twitter Handles:
Antony: @antloewenstein
Omar: @OmarNizam
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1:20 - Author's introduction
4:30 - Intro to Louis XIV
8:15 - The Gardens of Versailles
10:50 - Louis XIV's assault on privilege
13:00 - Louis XIV's regal painting
17:50 - The death of Louis XIV
19:00 - How Leonardo Da Vinci ended up in France
24:15 - Leonardo's John the Baptist painting
28:15 - The Eiffel Tower
32:00 - Elisha Otis and the Safety Elevator
36:15 - Adolf Hitler visits Paris
39:00 - Napoleon Bonaparte
43:00 - Concluding remarks
Author's bio:
๐ซ๐ท Dr. Mahbubur Rahman is a physician and pharmaceutical industry specialist turned writer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
๐ซ๐ท A self-professed travel buff, he has visited various countries across Europe, Asia, and North America.
๐ซ๐ท "L'etat c'est moi" is his debut book about his travels through France, identifying it's rich and vibrant cultural history.
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๐ Book: Arafat - The Biography
โ๏ธ Author: Andrew Gowers
๐จ๏ธ Publisher: Virgin Books (@Virgin @VirginVoyages @virginstartupvideos @VirginHotels @virginred @RichardBranson).
Author's bio:
๐ต๐ธ Andrew Gowers was both Foreign Editor and Middle East Editor of the Financial Times @FinancialTimes, travelling regularly in the region between 1987 to 1990.
๐ต๐ธ A graduate of Cambridge University @cambridgeuniversity, he was a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Brussels and Zurich before joining the Financial Times' foreign staff in 1983.
๐ต๐ธ He comments frequently on Middle Eastern affairs for British radio and television as well as the BBC World Service (@BBC @BBCNews @BBCHindi @bbcearth @bbcnewsarabic @bbcradio1 @BBCBangla @BBCMundo @BBCStudios).
๐ต๐ธ Andrew is now retired and lives with his family in Lisbon, Portugal.
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โ๏ธ Author: Gideon Levy
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โ๏ธ Author: Frank Barat
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โ๏ธ Author: Zachary Foster
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Author's bio:
๐ต๐ธ Prof Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli philologist, Professor of language and education and activist.
๐ต๐ธ She is a 2001 co-laureate of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded by the European Parliament.
๐ต๐ธ She is known for her research on the portrayal of Palestinians in Israeli textbooks, which she has criticized as being anti-Palestinian.
๐ต๐ธ "Palestine In Israeli School Books" is her first book, published in 2012. Her second book "Holocaust Education and the Semiotics of Othering in Israeli Schoolbooks" came out in 2023.
Notable guest mentions:
๐ Book: The Invention Of Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Zachary Foster @zacharyfoster7426
๐ง Podcast: โข ๐ Book: The Invention Of Palestine | ...
๐ Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Ilan Pappรฉ
๐ง Podcast: โข ๐ Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Pales...
๐ Book: The Punishment Of Gaza
โ๏ธ Author: Gideon Levy
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๐ Hosted by: โโ @omarrasman
๐ง Episode info:
We speak to Dr. Zachary Foster about his 2017 dissertation "The Invention Of Palestine."
Author's Synopsis:
My aim is understand when, how and why people identified as Palestinian in history. Identities like โPalestinianโ are not modern, pre-modern or early modern, nor do they date to antiquity or the ancient Near East. Theyโve probably been around for tens of thousands of years.
Short Bio:
๐ต๐ธ Dr. Zachary Foster is a historian of Palestine.
๐ต๐ธ He holds a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Michigan โโ @universityofmichigan8202.
๐ต๐ธ He has an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University โโ @georgetownuniversity. He did his Masters thesis on โArab Historiography in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1948โ.
๐ต๐ธ He completed his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University โโ @princeton. His dissertation is entitled "The Invention Of Palestine."
Dr. Zachary Foster's Social Media:
โถ๏ธ YouTube Channel: โโ @zacharyfoster7426
๐ฆTwitter / X: @_ZachFoster
Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/Zach...
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๐ Book: On Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Frank Barat โโ @FrankBarat77
โถ๏ธ Episode 28: โข ๐Book: On Palestine | โ๏ธAuthors: Noam...
๐ Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Ilan Pappe
โถ๏ธ Episode 29: โข ๐ Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Pales...
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๐ Book: Devil's Advocate: The Untold Story
โ๏ธ Author: Karan Thapar
๐ Publisher: @harpercollins @HarperCollinsChildrensBooks @HarperCollinsUK
๐๏ธ Host: @omarrasman
Autor's Brief Bio:
Karan Thapar is one of the most distinguished journalists to come from India. His journalistic career spans over 40+ years. He has interviewed doctors, politicians, businessmen, scientists, authors, and even the occasional Nobel Laureate. In the past Karan Thapar was associated with @CNN and hosted "The Devil's Advocate" and "The Last Word".
WATCH Karan Thapar's show "The Interview" on โถ๏ธ The Wire: @TheWireNews
Episode Highlights:
1. Early life in Kashmir and revocation of Kashmir's "Special Status"
2. Army Brat: Father (Army Chief) Pran Nath Thapar
3. Army Chief Sam Manekshaw, Lt Gen JFR Jacob, and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
4. Being good friends with @PPP-PakistanPeoplesParty 's Benazir Bhutto
5. Being family friends with Burma's Aung Sun Suu Kyi, @NobelPrize winner
6. The 2017 Rohingya Genocide
7. Relationship with @NarendraModi and the @bjp government
8. Thoughts on making Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev cry during an interview in the year 2000
9. Karan Thapar's book recommendations
10. Karan Thapar's preferred book genre
๐ฆ Follow Omar on Twitter / X: @OmarNizam
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๐ Book: The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine
โ๏ธ Author: Ilan Pappรฉ
๐ Publisher: @Oneworld-publications
๐๏ธ Host: @omarrasman
Summary: British-Israeli author and activist Prof. Dr. Ilan Pappรฉ discusses his 2006 book "The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine."
Ilan Pappรฉ's bio:
โ๏ธ Ilan Pappรฉ is an Israeli historian, political scientist, and activist.
โ๏ธ He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.
โ๏ธ Pappรฉ was born in Haifa, Israel. Prior to coming to the UK, he was a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa (1984โ2007) and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa (2000โ2008). He is the author of Ten Myths About Israel (2017), The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (2003), and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988).
โ๏ธ Pappรฉ is one of Israel's New Historians who, since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, have offered an unconventional view of Israel's creation in 1948, and the corresponding flight and expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians in the same year. He has written that the expulsions were not decided on an ad hoc basis, as other historians have argued, but constituted the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
โถ๏ธ YouTube Links:
โถ๏ธ Frank Barat: @FrankBarat77
โถ๏ธ Noam Chomsky: @chomskysphilosophy
โถ๏ธ University of Exeter: @universityofexeter
๐ฆ Follow Omar on Twitter / X: @OmarNizam
If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out first related episode "The Punishment Of Gaza" with Gideon Levy. Watch now: โข ๐ Book: The Punishment Of Gaza | โ๏ธ A...
If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out second related episode "On Palestine" with Frank Barat. Watch now: โข ๐Book: On Palestine | โ๏ธAuthors: Noam...Support the Show.
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โถ๏ธ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PRf1Pk4UbF8
๐ Book: On Palestine
โ๏ธ Authors: Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappรฉ
โ๏ธ Editor: Frank Barat
๐ Publisher: @HaymarketBooks
๐๏ธ Host: @omarrasman
Summary: French activist, author, and film producer FRANK BARAT discusses the history of the book ON PALESTINE which he edited and co-wrote with his activist heroes Prof. Dr. Noam Chomsky & Prof. Dr. Ilan Pappรฉ.
Frank's bio:
โ๏ธ Frank Barat is a French activist, author, and film producer.
โ๏ธ He was the coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine from 2008 until 2014.
โ๏ธ He is the co-founder of BARC Productions, a film production company, created in Brussels in February 2019.
โ๏ธ He has edited books with Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappรฉ, Ken Loach and Angela Davis.
โ๏ธ His Instagram handle is: @4frankbarat
โถ๏ธ YouTube Links:
โถ๏ธ Frank Barat: @FrankBarat77
โถ๏ธ Noam Chomsky: @chomskysphilosophy
โถ๏ธ Jewish Voice For Peace: @JewishVoiceforPeace
โถ๏ธ Norman Finkelstein: @normanfinkelstein-kx5qm
โถ๏ธ Yuval Noah Harari: @YuvalNoahHarari
โถ๏ธ MIT: @mit
โถ๏ธ University of Exeter: @universityofexeter
๐ฆ Follow Omar on Twitter / X: @OmarNizam
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๐ Book: Heart Tantrums
โ๏ธ Author: Aisha Sarwari (with Yasser Latif Hamdani)
๐ Publishers: @penguinindia @PenguinBooksUK @Hurstpublishers
๐๏ธ Host: @omarrasman
Summary: Ugandan born Pakistani author Aisha Sarwari shares her memoirs of living in a hostile Pakistani community as a half-caste, navigating through the nuances of Pakistani society as a virtual outsider, all the while suffering from systemic misogyny and caregiver fatigue for an ailing husband with a personality altering brain tumor.
Aisha's bio:
Aisha Sarwari is a public speaker, writer and women's rights advocate. She is the co-founder of Women's Advancement Hub (@womensadvancementhub5437). She has written for the Guardian (@theGuardian), Dawn (@dawnnewspakistan), BBC World (@BBCNews), NPR (@NPR), TRT World (@trtworld) and the Express Tribune (@theexpresstribune). Between San Jose and Islamabad, she has been working in the field of public affairs, and communications for over twenty years across several industries. Her Twitter handle is: @AishaFsarwari.Support the Show.
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Israeli journalist Gideon Levy discusses his 2010 book "The Punishment of Gaza"
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๐Book: "Stories I Must Tell"
๐Genre: Autobiography / Film / History / South Asian History / Religion / Politics
โ๏ธ Author: Kabir Bedi
Publisher: โโ @WestlandBooks
๐ Hosted by: โโ @omarrasman
๐ง Episode info:
A legendary actor whose three decade long career spans Film, Television, and Theatre alike, Bollywood superstar and international megastar KABIR BEDI discusses his 2021 autobiography "Stories I Must Tell".
๐ Episode Highlights:
โ๏ธ Visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh in July 2023
โ๏ธ Ode to Rumi series
โ๏ธ Meeting The Beatles in 1963
โ๏ธ Parents' journey from freedom fighters to spiritual gurus
โ๏ธ Megastardom in Europe with Sandokan
โ๏ธ Octopussy and The Bold and The Beautiful
โ๏ธ Parveen Babi & Protima Bedi
โ๏ธ Future Projects
๐ Book Review 1 by โโ @jenn_n_tonik9458:
"Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life of an Actor" by Kabir Bedi, was one of my favorite reads over the past year.
Kabir Bedi's memoir is a delightful gust of fresh air in the celebrity autobiography genre. His recollections and self reflection of a most fascinating life, amounts to duly justifying the title - Stories I Must Tell.
Each chapter is dedicated to a figure or experience in Bedi's life. His years with his first wife Protima, followed by his famous relationship with Bollywood superstar Parveen Babi, epitomized 1970โs most โliberalโ Bombay lifestyle. An open marriage or living together out of wedlock or running naked on the beach for a photoshoot in 70s India, they were creating stories for the ages.
Bedi recollects his time with Babi and her growing mental health problems with the sensitivity of one who truly loved. The passionate love affair with Babi spans over the years when Bedi discovers mega stardom in EU with the Italian pirate adventure "Sandokan". His sudden ultra stardom unfortunately marks the beginning of the end with Babi, as her challenges with mental health grow. This is a chapter for Bollywood buffs to devour, though not in the least sensationalized and written with heart and respect.
I was captivated yet again by the section on Bedi's most unusual and mystical parents. Once revolutionaries during the Indo-Pak partition, his Indian father and British mother's lives enigmatically evolve as they embark on two very distinct spiritual journeys, of becoming a spiritual healer and an ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun respectively.
Growing up with the Gandhis, interviewing The Beatles, discussing Tagore with Audrey Hepburn are among the many chance encounters or close relationships with global figures.
Yet, Bedi writes his stories with utmost humility, addressing his lowest lows, both personal (losing his son) and financial. His own spiritual journey & explaining his respect for all religions are among my favorite parts of the book.
I'd highly recommend this memoir as a generally intriguing and fulfilling read on the extraordinary life of a once ordinary Delhi boy.Support the Show.
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