Reckoning with October 7: Sexual Violence, Feminism, and the Hamas Massacre

"Sexual Violence, Feminism, and the Hamas Massacre" is the third webinar in the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's yearlong series reckoning with the response to the atrocities on October 7. This panel features Mariam Memarsadeghi, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Nina Power, and it was moderated by Gabriel Noah Brahm. The discussion took place on March 7, 2024. For more information about TPPI's Israel Initiative, visit our website.

Mariam Memarsadeghi is a leading proponent for a democratic Iran and founder and director of the Cyrus Forum for Iran's Future, an initiative to foster dialogue and thought leadership for Iran's democratic transition. Her political commentary and analysis have appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Tablet, the National Interest, The Hill, the Globe and Mail, the Jerusalem Post, Bulwark, Al Arabiya, American Purpose, Quillette, Caravan, and other publications. She is a frequent speaker at universities and think tanks worldwide and provides commentary on TV news programs, including Iranian, Arab, and Israeli channels. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) @memarsadeghi.

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the Opinion Editor of Newsweek. She is the author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women (currently in press with Encounter Books) and Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy (2023). The former Opinion Editor of the Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in the United States, she has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books Daily, and Foreign Policy. She has also appeared frequently on MSNBC, NBC, the Brian Lehrer Show, and National Public Radio. She attended high school in Israel and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) @bungarsargon.

Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman (2009) and What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents (2022), is Senior Editor and columnist at Compact magazine. She holds a Ph.D. from Middlesex University and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Roehampton. She currently serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies (GCAS).

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