A segment on turmoil on campuses over the Israel-Hamas war includes interviews with Dartmouth professors and students and says joint forums by the Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies programs have served as an effective “pressure valve.”

Jewish Studies professor Susannah Heschel and Middle Eastern Studies professor Tarek El-Ariss are interviewed on Weekend Edition about how their programs collaborated to present public forums fostering dialogue about the Israel-Hamas war.

A story on colleges’ responses to the Hamas attack on Israel quotes Susannah Heschel of Jewish studies, and Ezzedine Fishere of Middle Eastern studies, on how their programs’ close ties enabled respectful community-wide dialogue.