Ethan Pack

Please see my mid-February piece on the Arab revolutions, following the collapse of the Mubarak regime: The Arab Revolutionary We Failed to Imagine

I have been remiss in updating the site. Below please find four stories from the Jewish Daily Forward. In chronological order:

A profile of Israeli musician Amir Benayoun, a thoroughly fascinating figure with respect to the intersection between politics, art, and extremism in Israel: click here.

On the underground world of foreign guest workers living and working in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station: click here.

On Israeli theater professionals boycotting a new cultural center in the West Bank settlement of Ariel: click here.

On a recent exhibit at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center: click here.

Please see my most recent post on the Jewish Daily Forward’s website, through their arts blog, the Arty Semite. The piece deals with how the Israeli arts have attempted to represent the Palestinian experience of the 1948 War (Israel’s War of Independence, and the Palestinian Nakba). More on this to come.

Foreign Policy in Focus published my article covering the Muslim Voices Festival, which took place June 5-14 in New York City. To see more about the festival, go to their website, which has videos and interviews from the amazing artists who participated. They also have great links to exhibitions and essays on contemporary Muslim arts.

My second post is now up on the Huffington Post. This piece examines Middle Eastern politics more generally. The simmering clash between Israel’s Netanyahu government and the Obama administration reflect a new ordering of the international community. I look into the changes this portends for the relationships between the U.S., Europe, Israel and the Muslim Middle East. Please check it out, comment, link it to your blog or social networking site, and become a “Fan.”

Click here for my past published works.

Excited to report I have a new article online, on
Huffington Post. Please check it out, comment, and become a “Fan.”

Click here for my past published works.

Check out my new article that just published in Foreign Policy in Focus here.

To see my other published works, click the link on the sidebar, or right here.

Ethan Pack is an independent writer and translator, as well as a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). He has translated Survival by Uri S. Cohen from Hebrew to English. Survival deals with Hebrew and Italian literature between the world wars.

Pack has interned at The Charlie Rose Show. Pack graduated with honors from Columbia University in 2008, with a degree in Comparative Literature. Pack is fluent in Arabic and Hebrew, and has lived abroad in Israel and Morocco, and traveled extensively in the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Egypt, and Europe. In New York, Pack has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations as a researcher and translator, and at the New York Post as an editorial assistant. In Israel, Pack interned at the newspaper Ha’aretz in 2004 and 2006, translating, editing, and writing for the paper’s online English Edition. He has long been an activist in causes for Israeli-Arab co-existence, as well as minority rights, pluralism, and community development in Israel. Pack was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In his spare time, Pack writes fiction and plays.