About Undercurrents

Deep dives into the stories submerged beneath the daily churn of the news. Dispatches from the world’s most written-about—and least understood—shores: the ones between the river and the sea.

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About Oren Kessler

Author, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict, winner of the 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and one of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of the year. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Based in Tel Aviv.

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