1. Here’s the thoughtful first episode of Carne Ross’s Gentle Anarchy podcast, in which he interviews Daniel Levy, a  member of the Israeli negotiating team in Oslo in 1993 who has since altered his stance on Middle Eastern affairs https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gentle-anarchy/episodes/DANIEL-LEVY-e2q4f1t

2. Details here of an UKFIET online and in-person event with a no-punches-pulled title in London on Monday 18^th November, Responding to ‘Scholasticide’ in Gaza: The Role of the UK International Education and Training Community https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ukfiet/1399229

3. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is somehow still operating in Gaza. Here’s a recent account of their work, Rebuilding Gaza – the paradox of shelter without resources https://www.nrc.no/expert-deployment/news/rebuilding-gaza—the-paradox-of-shelter-without-resources/

How can you provide shelter to people in a humanitarian crisis when there are no buildings or building materials available? This is the main struggle for Alison Ely and her colleagues in Gaza.

Medical Action for Palestinians (MAP) also continue their work against all the odds. Here’s a short film by three of their staff https://www.map.org.uk/landing-pages/watch-now-gaza-one-year-in

Three of our colleagues, Tarneem, Amal and Mohammed, have shared their experiences over the last year, living under Israel’s constant military attacks and a suffocating siege.

4. It’s time for a visit to Ethan Mollick’s blog, One Useful Thing, where his latest post is The Present Future: AI’s Impact Long Before Superintelligence. “You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse,” says Ethan https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-present-future-ais-impact-long

5. And, finally, here’s Elif Shafak reading and talking about Charles Bukowski’s ‘Bluebird’ https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/the-bluebirds-in-our-hearts-and-creative Here’s the text of the poem https://allpoetry.com/poem/8509539-Bluebird-by-Charles-Bukowski