Contributor: Armchair Anthropologist
Armchair Anthropologist
The Armchair Anthropologist is a writer, translator, editor, photographer, and trained clinical social worker. She divides her time between the west coast of Israel and the east coast of America.

Jerusalem Portraits: The Armenian Artist, an Israeli Potter

A final blog is business as usual: attending to the anthropological wonder of life in the Middle East...
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The Art of Tel Aviv’s Café Society

Art and literature, psychotherapy and cake meet on Tel Aviv's Mazeh Street
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The Paradox of Life in Israel

If things in Israel are so bad, why is life there so good?
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Don’t Eat before Reading: Pro-Palestinian Blog “KABOBfest” Gives Indigestion

Pro-Palestinian Web site "KABOBfest" is not quite as tasty as it claims to be.
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What If Israel Is Just Another Utopian Idea?

Is an idea beautiful if it is utopian, and cannot be made real?
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A Warehouse of the Past Contains the Future: Jaffa Salon of Palestinian Art

The Palestinian art now on display in Jaffa Port gives Israelis a chance to see things from a new perspective.
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Tel Aviv Portraits: The Boomerang King

Seeing is believing: Tel Aviv has an ace boomerang thrower - and he's not a politician!
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Israel’s Lebanon Trauma in Cinematic Sublimation

The recent changes in Lebanon provide an opportunity to revisit Israel's cinematic treatment of its traumatic engagement with that country.
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Jerusalem Portraits: The Muslim Buddhist

The souq of Jerusalem's Old City is filled with surprises, both material and human.
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Foto Rachel: The Under-told Story of Jewish Refugees Detained in Cyprus

A narrative, in photographs, of invincible vivacity.
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Melting Pot: The Culinary Stew of Tel Aviv

What the Tel Aviv resident exiled - to Kiryat Gat or to London - is likely to miss...
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Israel as Fallen Empire: Shai Kremer's Photography

Shai Kremer takes a heartrendingly beautiful look at Israel's imperialism.
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Israel: My Country, Right or Wrong?

Israel is unraveling...but who can follow the thread?
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Biography of a Legend - Simon Wiesenthal

In Tom Segev's new and thorough biography, Simon Wiesenthal is revealed to be a complex, fascinating fixture of the 20th century.
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Israelis and Jews: The People of the Book

Books can prove surprisingly expensive, especially in a nation of readers...
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In Sickness and in Health - The Israeli Health Care system

Not everything you're used to is good for you: America's health care "system" is one such thing. Here's something America could stand to learn from Israel
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What you see in Tel Aviv is what you get - but only if you're really looking...

What you see in Tel Aviv is what you get - but only if you're really looking...
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Born Free

On the lack of boundaries in Israelis' lives, personally and nationally.
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Here Comes the Bride

Fantasy meets reality on the northern reaches of Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Street, runway for a pageant of brides.
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Putting Out Brush Fires

The Mount Carmel fire is a test-case for examining the psyche of Israeli society.
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