BAD COUSINS

Kollo Media

Beginning with a deceptively simple question - why are the Abraham Accords named after Abraham? – this series is a whirlwind tour of geopolitics, theology, pop culture, and anthropological theory that picks up on old Abe as both a universal symbol and the ancestor of two peoples: the Arabs and the Jews. As we’ll see, cousins can be pretty bad.Published by Kollo Media in partnership with The Diasporist.Produced by Ben Schuman-Stoler, Matan Kaminer, and LABA fellow Guli Hashiloni.Music and theme by Adam Maor.Check out @kollomedia and @the_diasporist on Instagram.

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BAD COUSINS

Episodes (6)

Feb 23rd Cast out the Slave Woman!
Jan 13th Communities of Disagreement
Dec 22, 2025 O Cousin, Where Art Thou?

BAD COUSINS

Feb 23, 2026
50¾ minutes
34 MB

Send a text Episode 5 of BAD COUSINS is a little harrowing. We’ve seen all along how toxic this Abraham thing can be, but this time we get into quite a lot of the nastiness. We start off by looking at how the Crusades took up an identification of Sarah when slaughtering Jewish and Muslim infidels, and then we talk about how nineteenth-century British Christians became enamored with the idea of bringing the Jews back to Zion. Next we find ourselves face to face with a sort of Muslim Zion...

BAD COUSINS

Cast out the Slave Woman!

Kollo Media

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