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Radio Show — Live on WBAI July 10, 9 am ET
PODCAST — Ya Ghorbati: Judeo-Arab Divas
Some of the greatest female singers of the Maghreb were Arab Jewish women whose biographies were marked by multiple forms of discrimination. Noelle O'Brien-Coker on a project that revives their legacy.
PRESS — Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani
He’s become a vehicle for our tensions
PODCAST — The shaming of the tongue
Presenting Ya Ghorbati with singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero (October 2025)
PODCAST — Sephardi/Mizrahi Therapy
On Sephardi/Mizrahi cultural reclamation, in conversation with Arielle Angel, Oren Yirmiya and Devin Naal
PODCAST — SWANA and Arab Jews: From Cultural Return to Palestinian Right of Return
(November 2025)
ABC7Chicago
Benefit Concert for Gaza to feature Common, aid humanitarian relief in Middle East (October 2024)
PRESS — What Happened When a Palestinian Restaurant Hosted a Shabbos Dinner
A taste of what Palestine once was—and still could be.
PRESS — Everyone and their bubbie is here’: a lively Jewish Sabbath at a Palestinian restaurant in Brooklyn
A lively Shabbat at a Palestinian restaurant (January 2024)
PRESS — At Brooklyn's Palestinian-owned eatery Ayat, a Shabbat dinner and discourse around war
At Brooklyn's Palestinian-owned eatery Ayat, a Shabbat dinner and discourse around war (February 2024)
VIDEO — Frankel Institute Annual
Mimouna in New York City: Becoming Mizrahi in America, Gal Levy, Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity (2023)
PRESS — Cultures juives d’Afrique du Nord : « Que faire de la nostalgie et comment en sortir ?
Cultures juives d'Afrique du Nord, que faire de la nostalgie et comment en sortir (May 2023)
FOLIO — Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile
(March 2022)
PRESS — NY Jewish Week
Brooklyn musician Laura Elkeslassy creates a modern album inspired by forgotten Moroccan Jewish history (June 2022)
PRESS — 36 to watch
Laura Elkeslassy, 37, Sephardi/Mizrahi singer, actor and educator (June 2022)
PRESS — Ya Biladi
États-Unis : La chanteuse Laura Elkeslassy s’inspire du patrimoine judéo-marocain (June 2022)
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