Ethan Pack

Most Recent Post

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:14:33 +0000

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.

New Article Covers “Muslim Voices” Festival in New York

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:42:18 +0000

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.

New Article on HuffPo

admin — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:40:01 +0000

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.

Article on Huffington Post

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:51:26 +0000

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.

New Article in Foreign Policy in Focus

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:13:24 +0000

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.

My Bio

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:08:31 +0000

Ethan Pack is an independent writer and translator. He has translated Survival by Uri S. Cohen from Hebrew to English. Survival deals with Hebrew and Italian literature between the world wars.

In the fall, Pack will begin a PhD in Comparative Literature at UCLA.

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.