Podcast appearances and mentions of James L Gelvin

For this special episode, we are sharing a recording of a Zoom event hosted on November 21 by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. Feature two UCLA history professors, Dr. James L. Gelvin and Dr. David N. Myers, this informational session explores the historical background to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, addressing questions such as:What is Hamas?What led to Hamas' attack on Israel?Why was Israel so ill-prepared?What does the future hold for Israel and Palestine, and for the wider region?Dr. L. Gelvin is a professor of history at UCLA. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Middle Eastern history and contemporary issues, including The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History, recently updated and released as a fourth edition by Cambridge University Press.Dr. David N. Myers is a professor of history at UCLA and the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy. He is the author and editor of numerous books in the field of modern Jewish history including Between Arab and Jew: The Los Voice of Simon Rawidowicz, published by Brandeis University Press in 2009.

On this edition of Parallax Views, Prof. James L. Gelvin, noted scholar of Middle East history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and author of The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History, joins the show to discuss the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack and Israel's retaliatory bombing of Gaza, but also the broader history of the Israel/Palestine issue/situation/question/conflict. The conversation begins with Prof. Gelvin's analysis of the Israel/Palestine issue and its origins which he argues is about clashing nationalisms rather than religious war or a dispute going back to biblical times. From there he gives his insights into conditions on the ground in Gaza, the question of whether or not U.S. foreign polciy has "kicked the can down the road" on pursuing a diplomatic political solution to Israel/Palestine, the one-state solution vs. the two-state solution, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Oslo Accords, the legitimacy of national identities and their mythologies, the increasingly common argument that the PLO's Yasser Arafat is responsible for the current crisis for "walking away" from a "generous offer" at the 2000 Camp David Summit, the motivations of Hamas, Israel-Saudi normalization, the criticisms right-wing figures like David Horowitz have made of Gelvin's scholarship and his response to those criticisms, Obama and the Asia pivot, the West Bank and Israeli settlements, and much, much more.

Dr. James L. Gelvin is a Professor of Islamic Studies at UCLA. He holds his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He’s also taught at Harvard, Boston College and MIT. His most recent book is titled “The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know” where he covers the social, political and economic landscape of the New Middle east. In December of 2015 he joined Jonathan in the studio to discuss the relationship between Shia and Sunni Islam and to record the very first episode of Getting Curious...the rest is history!    To find out more about Dr. Gelvin’s work visit www.newsroom.ucla.edu   Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN and Twitter.   Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com.   Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.   Catch Jonathan on Queer Eye streaming now on Netflix.

A book talk by James L. Gelvin (UCLA), with discussant Kevan Harris (UCLA)

A book talk by James L. Gelvin (UCLA), with discussant Kevan Harris (UCLA)

Featuring Asli Ü. Bâli, UCLA School of Law; Caroline Ford, UCLA History; James L. Gelvin, UCLA History; Dominic Thomas, UCLA French and Francophone Studies

Featuring Asli Ü. Bâli, UCLA School of Law; Caroline Ford, UCLA History; James L. Gelvin, UCLA History; Dominic Thomas, UCLA French and Francophone Studies

A book talk with author James L. Gelvin (Dept. of History, UCLA), and Nouri Gana (Depts. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Comparative Literature, UCLA)

A two-part panel presentation. Part one: "The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State," James L. Gelvin, UCLA Part two: "'This is the 74th Ferman on Us!':The Yazidis, from Ottoman Atrocities to Islamic State Genocide," Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Dartmouth College

Beginning in December 2010, the suicide of a Tunisian street vender ignited protests and uprisings that spread throughout the Arab world. James L. Gelvin, Professor of History at UCLA and author of The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2012), looks back at the first year of those protests and uprisings, exploring their causes, their trajectories, and the lessons we might learn from them.