Canadian-Israeli author/journalist Matti Friedman, who has reported from Israel for over two decades, explains that Western media outlets frequently frame the Israel/Hamas narrative as a good guy vs bad guy story, because the oversimplification appeals to audiences wanting simple tales from a complex region. Friedman shares his on-the-ground insights—including why Hamas aligned itself with George Floyd—in Episode 2 of Dialogue for Change, with host Hari Sreenivasan.

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Featuring an interview with Matti Friedman, an award-winning journalist and author of four books. He was a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press between 2006 and 2011. Since then, his work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, and Smithsonian. Matti’s most recent book, Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, was published in 2022 in the US, Canada, Israel, and Italy. His previous book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, won the 2019 Natan Prize and the Canadian Jewish Book Award. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War was chosen in 2016 as a New York Times Notable Book and one of Amazon’s 10 best books of the year. His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize and the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Matti Friedman was born in Toronto and lives with his family in Jerusalem.

About the Series:

Exploring Hate’s new 5-part series, Dialogue for Change, hosted by Hari Sreenivasan, invites viewers to listen harder, dig deeper, and break the box in the contentious Israel/Hamas narrative gripping the world since Oct 7th.

Hari Sreenivasan—host of PBS Take on Fake and contributor to Amanpour & Company—leads in-depth discussions with distinct voices from Gaza, Israel, and the U.S., each speaking from their personal experiences of war zone loss, attacks on democracy, eyewitness reporting, global history, and dual/dueling faiths. Listen in as each guest takes a stand on fighting entrenchment and finding common ground.

For more information visit: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/

In partnership with the Muslim American Leadership Alliance and Moment Magazine.
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Series Premiere: March 27, 2024

Watch all episodes of Dialogue for Change: Post October 7th here:
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Leadership support is provided by the Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism, with additional funding from Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III, Charlotte and David Ackert and Nancy and Morris W. Offit.

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