BAD COUSINS
Beginning with a deceptively simple question - why are the Abraham Accords named after Abraham? – this series is a whirlwind tour of geopolitics, theology, pop culture, and anthropological theory that picks up on old Abe as both a universal symbol and the ancestor of two peoples: the Arabs and the Jews. As we’ll see, cousins can be pretty bad.
Published by Kollo Media in partnership with The Diasporist.
Produced by Ben Schuman-Stoler, Matan Kaminer, and LABA fellow Guli Hashiloni.
Music and theme by Adam Maor.
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Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
BAD COUSINS
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Communities of Disagreement
In this episode we are joined by a very special guest, historian of Islam Yusuf Tayara, to talk about how the Abraham story spun off into all kinds of intriguing directions in the centuries following the bible.We start off with a mysteri...
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O Cousin, Where Art Thou?
"With my brother against my cousin, with my first cousin against my second cousin, with my second cousin against my third cousin..." In episode 3 of BAD COUSINS, we go deeper into the question, Why are the Abraham Accord...
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An Abraham for Everybody
It's been five years since the signing of these Accords and Donald Trump still can't shut up about AHB-ra-hahm. Neither can we, but it's really not just us and Trump who are obsessed. To prove the point, we went into the world’s most heavily mi...
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