Ariel Sophia Bardi
Ariel Sophia Bardi is a journalist and academic, currently working on a book about nationalism. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic and many other publications. She holds a doctorate from Yale University and is based in Rome.
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The Bawdy Rai Music of Oran Reflects the City’s Pluralist Past
Bawdy and subversive, with a history and lyrics that speak to Algeria’s pluralist past, Rai music flourishes in the Mediterranean port city of Oran while its superstars have built international reputations.
How To See Palestine in Israel
In the process of doing her doctoral field research on remnants of the Nakba in the contemporary Israeli landscape, the author realized that to see beyond the post-1948 “architectural cleansing” it was necessary to look in a very particular way.
What Theodor Herzl’s Zionist-Utopian Novel Says About Israel Today
Herzl is still considered one of Israel’s founding fathers. But his novel “Altneuland” — unlike his 1896 manifesto — is seldom remembered. There might be a reason for that. Read the utopian novel and you’ll see how far Herzl’s vividly imagined, Jewish-led cooperative in Palestine diverges from the Israel of today.