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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BAD COUSINS
Latest Episodes
BONUS EPISODE: Live Event Audio
This is the audio from our November 2025 launch event we held with LABA at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. You'll hear panelists Yael Attia and Muhammad Jabali talk with Matan, ...
The Gate of Tears
This is Episode 6 of BAD COUSINS, the final episode of the season. As we’ve been promising from the very beginning, this is where we take some time to discuss more radical and even optimistic ways of reading the Abraham story. For this ...
BONUS EPISODE: The Purim War
This is a bonus episode with Ben and Matan that we recorded in response to the ongoing Iran War, which was launched a few days before the Jewish holiday of Purim. As the first bombs were being dropped from American and Israeli warpl...