Professors Susannah Heschel and Tarek El-Ariss discuss co-teaching class on ongoing conflict on political talk show

Chair of the Jewish Studies program, Professor Susannah Heschel, and Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies program, Professor Tarek El-Ariss, discussed co-teaching a class on the Israel-Hamas war on political talk show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brein.

Chair of the Jewish Studies program, Professor Susannah Heschel, and Chair of the Middle Eastern Studies program, Professor Tarek El-Ariss, discussed co-teaching a class on the Israel-Hamas war on political talk show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brein.

"I want them to understand shared problems we have faced as Jews and as Arabs," says Professor Heschel. 

"We want to offer them a model of convivance, that does not require that one does not eliminate the other; that there is room for some sort of communal existence," said Professor El-Ariss. 

The video can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/3QnJw4E