The Israeli Affairs Committee is proudly hosting a showing of the 2024 Oscar winner for Best Documentary, “No Other Land” on March 22, 2026, at 10:00 am. “No Other Land” depicts a friendship between two of the film’s directors–Yuval Avraham, and Israeli of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi descent, and Basel Adra, a Palestinian film director, lawyer and journalist–amidst the destruction of a Palestinian community in the West Bank after an Israeli “firing zone” was declared on their land.
No Other Land has been portrayed on Rotten Tomatoes as an “elegantly assembled diary of the Palestinian experience” and by the Israeli Culture minister as a “sabotage against the State of Israel.” The film could not find a U.S. distributor after being picked up for distribution in 24 countries and winning the Oscar, a situation that has been compared to “soft censorship.” A moderated discussion will follow the film led by Arie M. Dubnov. Light refreshments will be served. We are showing the film at no charge, but reservations are encouraged. Click here to reserve your seat.
About Arie M. Dubnov
Arie M. Dubnov is an associate professor of history and International Affairs who holds the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies and serves as director of the Middle East Program.
Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a cultural and intellectual historian of twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the British mandate period in Palestine and the study of
Jewish nationalism.
His books include the intellectual biography Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (2012), and three edited volumes, Zionism – A View from the Outside (2010 [in Hebrew]), seeking to put Zionist history in a broader comparative trajectory, and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-century Territorial Separatism (2019, co-edited with Laura Robson), tracing the genealogy of the idea of partition in the British interwar Imperial context and Amos Oz’s Two Pens: Between Literature and Politics (Routledge, 2023), dedicated to the late Israeli novelist and public intellectual. In addition, he co-authored, together with Guy Miron and others, the textbook Zionism – A New History (Open University of Israel Press, 2024 [in Hebrew]).
His academic work has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the Leibniz Institute of European History, The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the
University of Southampton, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin) and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
His Hebrew essays and short stories appeared in Alaxon, Hazman Hazeh [These Times], the literary magazine Ho!, and the Israeli newspapers Ha’aretz and Yedioth Ahronoth.
His current book research project, tentatively entitled Dreamers of the Third Empire/Temple, examines ties between Zionist and British imperial thinkers in interwar years and seeks to uncover alternative, neglected federalist political schemes for the region’s future that were circulating at the time.
