In doing background research for an article on the Jews of the Maghreb (North Africa), I learned of the existence of a 2002 documentary on Iraqi Jews titled “Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discriminated against members of the Likud originally from Arab-speaking countries (“mizrahim”) in his distribution of jobs in the government and Knesset, MK David ...

My grandfather was born in Jerusalem in 1924. Located in the Fertile Crescent, Jerusalem is one of the oldest continuously inhabited and most fervently contested cities in the world. It sits atop the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Michale Boganim explores her father’s role in Israel’s own Black Panther movement in her new Venice documentary: “The ...

The truth is that in the past, and perhaps even today, many Ashkenazim also viewed the Mizrahim as a collective – an inferior collective. Last week I watched one of my favorite programs on Channel 11, ...

In an essay entitled "Culture and Conflict" (Al-Ahram Weekly, 386, 16-22 July), professor emeritus Fawzi Mansour responded to five articles by Edward Said that had appeared in the Weekly between 9 ...

JERUSALEM – An electrifying new documentary series on the problematic integration of Middle Eastern Jews by Israel's European founders in the 1950s has reopened old wounds of an ethnic divide within ...

Director Michale Boganim explores her father’s role in Israel’s own Black Panther movement in her new Venice documentary: “The Forgotten Ones” (“Mizrahim, Les Oublies de la Terre Promise”). The 1950s ...