BAD COUSINS
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Podcast Overview
<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Published by Kollo Media in partnership with The Diasporist.</p><p>Produced by Ben Schuman-Stoler, Matan Kaminer, and LABA fellow Guli Hashiloni.</p><p>Music and theme by Adam Maor.</p><p>Check out @kollomedia and @the_diasporist on Instagram.</p>
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10/21/2025
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May 18, 2026
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, Ben, and producer Guli about the central consequences and critiques of the BAD COUSINS framework. Follow us on instagram @KolloMedia and @the_diasporist Subscribe to the Kollo Media newsletter to get exclusive interviews, episodes, and info about BAD COUSINS - plus the rest of the Kollo Media podcast and...
April 21, 2026
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 purpose, we invited scholar Avi-Ram Tzoreff to join us for a conversation grounded in a very unusual text, As For Ishmael I Have Heard You by Rabbi Yosef Kaminer (no relation to Matan). With this ultra-orthodox Jewish author, we dare to imagine a State of Abr...
March 12, 2026
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 warplanes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech explicitly connecting the biblical story of Purim - a court drama in which Jews are threatened and then annihilate their enemy in Ancient Persia - with the attack on Iran. Again, we're able to use ...
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- What is BAD COUSINS?
<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Published by Kollo Media in partnership with The Diasporist.</p><p>Produced by Ben Schuman-Stoler, Matan Kaminer, and LABA fellow Guli Hashiloni.</p><p>Music and theme by Adam Maor.</p><p>Check out @kollomedia and @the_diasporist on Instagram.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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