Alona Ferber

London

Senior editor @Prospect_UK ex-@NewStatesman @Haaretz @InstituteGC | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism | Sign up to my Substack: https://t.co/ucVxfQRxqN

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Articles

The backlash-against-feminism election

Nov 8, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alona Ferber

Donald Trump embodied a certain masculinity, and seething resentment against decades of gains in women’s rights
December 2024

Oct 30, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Francis Fukuyama |Jack Shaw |Sarah Manavis |Alona Ferber

Regardless of who wins, Joe Biden is a lame duck president
How the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ends

Jul 9, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ehud Olmert |Nasser Alkidwa |Alona Ferber

Alona Ferber, senior editor: Dr Nasser Alkidwa, you were Palestinian foreign affairs minister from 2005 to 2006. Before then you were a permanent observer at the UN. Ehud Olmert, your career spanned local and national politics before you became prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009. Did you ever work with each other directly? Nasser Alkidwa: No, not all. Ehud Olmert: Never. Ferber: You overlapped in government at a very different time in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
More Women in Work Is Good. There’s Just One Wrinkle.

May 14, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett |Lucy Webster |Alona Ferber

Worklife — 3 min read Congratulations, mothers of America. Earlier this month official statisticsshowed that maternal labor force participation had not only topped pre-pandemic levels, but had also hit its highest level ever: Almost 72 percent of mothers across the U.S., with children under 18, are now in paid work. In many ways, this is remarkable.
How Did Medical Birth Trauma Become 'Normal'?

May 13, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Lucy Webster |Alona Ferber |Emma Haslett

Maternal Care — 4 min read “It was a planned c-section, but when she came out, she wasn’t breathing.” “No-one had thought to turn on the oxygen in the operating room.” “He wasn’t crying.”“I was losing too much blood.” “They took her away.” “They said I was just being anxious.”This is how birth trauma stories come out. Often in a whisper, over a coffee, on the benches at the playground, on the sidelines at baby group. That is, if the stories come out at all.
Why we Must Normalize Disabled Bodies

May 9, 2024 | thepersistent.com | Alona Ferber |Lucy Webster

Disability — 6 min read It’s 2010, and at an all-girls’ school in North London, some 20 girls are being instructed on the matter of sex. Each girl has been handed a slip of paper on which to scrawl a question—ostensibly to grant anonymity—and heads are quietly bent over desks. There’s silence other than the scratch of pen on paper and occasional muffled giggle. We are 14. I too have been handed a paper and a pen. But pens don’t work for me.
Overlooked, even as psychopaths (and four other stories)

Mar 3, 2024 | thebacklash.substack.com | Alona Ferber |Caroline Perez

Happy Sunday, dear readers. I am taking part in two women-related events in London this week. On 5th March, I will be in conversation with the Israeli writer and psychologist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, to talk about her work, women’s rights and trauma after 7th October. You can get tickets here. On 10th March, I am chairing a panel of Jewish, Muslim and Arab women to explore how to move forward from the current horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
From Lucas Rijneveld to Amitav Ghosh: new books reviewed in short

Feb 21, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Michael Prodger |Pippa Bailey |Ellen Peirson-Hagger |Alona Ferber

Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav GhoshBetween 2004 and 2015 Amitav Ghosh immersed himself in opium as he worked on his “Ibis trilogy”, a series of novels set in the 1830s and ranging across the Indian Ocean in the years before the First Opium War. The books totalled more than 1,700 pages and all that research has now found another form in his new work Smoke and Ashes, a mixture of history, travelogue and family memoir.
"Gen Z is two generations, not one" (and four other stories)

Jan 28, 2024 | thebacklash.substack.com | Alona Ferber |Alice Evans

It’s the end of an intense week. So let’s get straight to the reads…In the Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch looks at the striking data (with some hard-to-believe charts) which shows that young men and women are increasingly ideologically polarised.
Four questions to end 2023

Dec 27, 2023 | thebacklash.substack.com | Alona Ferber |Sophie McBain

Dear reader,For me, this year ends on a strange, sad note as the war in Gaza continues and the future for Palestinians and Israelis remains fraught and fragile. The two main gender-related stories I have covered in this newsletter in relation to the war are Hamas’ use of rape in its 7th October massacre and the horrors of pregnancy and childbirth in a Gaza under military bombardment. Both are examples of how the brutality of conflict can affect women in very particular ways.