Our Professor Podcast
Micah Sander and Carter Greene interview Brooklyn College’s history professors to give students insight into their specialties, how they got where they are, and their personal interests.
Our Professor Podcast
New York, Istanbul, Tel Aviv: Professor Louis Fishman
Carter had a spectacular conversation with Professor Louis Fishman and Micah helped out.
Professor Louis Fishman is a historian of Palestinian and Israeli history during the late Ottoman period, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, modern Turkey and late Ottoman history. He divides his time between New York, Istanbul, and Tel Aviv. He finished his BA at Haifa University, and his MA and PhD at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland and is currently working on a book on the history of today’s Turkey. He regularly contributes to Haaretz, where he writes about Turkish and Israeli affairs, in addition to writing and providing political analysis to media outlets in Turkey, Israel and the US.
Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander