Israel and Iran: History and Today, featuring Yardena Schwartz and Jonathan Harounoff
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
First, get the context for today’s political climate with Yardena Schwartz, Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Then hear from Jonathan Harounoff in Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #WomenLifeFreedom Revolt. I guarantee you’ll feel more educated on current events after doing so.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.6 | There is a lot going on in the world these days, obviously, and the two interviews I did recently |
| 0:50.4 | made a great pair because it helps us gain some context about the current war, |
| 0:56.1 | which who knows, maybe over by the time this episode comes out with Iran and everything |
| 1:01.0 | that is going on in the Middle East, both from a historical perspective and today. |
| 1:05.7 | So I'm including these two episodes together, Yardina Schwartz, and Jonathan Harenoff. And you'll see why, as you hear more about |
| 1:15.6 | their bios, their books, and how they can help us make sense of these complicated times and give us |
| 1:22.9 | the perspective that we all need. I hope that you find it just as interesting as I did and that you can take |
| 1:29.2 | from it the lessons you'll need to make sense of the world. Thank you so much to both Jonathan |
| 1:34.1 | and Yardina for educating us and giving us context. This is part one of our double episode, |
| 1:41.7 | Yardina Schwartz. Yardana Schwartz is the author of Ghosts of a Holy War, |
| 1:46.5 | the 1929 massacre in Palestine that ignited the Arab-Israeli conflict. |
| 1:51.1 | I met Yardana at the East Hampton Library's Authors Night like a year ago, |
| 1:57.0 | and we have been trading calls and commiserating and talking and learning from each other |
| 2:02.9 | since then, and finally we got to do a podcast which took way too long to happen. |
| 2:08.0 | Yerudena is an award-winning journalist, an Emmy-nominated producer, who's reporting from |
| 2:12.6 | four continents has appeared in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, |
| 2:16.7 | foreign policy, Time, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, and The Economist. |
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