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August, 2010 August 6: I've been invited to give a paper at the "ART MUSICS OF ISRAEL:IDENTITIES, IDEOLOGIES, INFLUENCES" conference, taking place between Monday 28 March - Thursday 31 March 2011 at the University of London. I'll be discussing "Arrangements of Shirei Eretz Israel as Expressions of the Shifting Politics of Israeli Identity," the abstract is available here. This paper grew out of experiences I had playing in Omer Avital and Israel Borochov's Debka Fantastia Project back in 2008, as well as the Ethnomusicology Seminar I took at Yale with Prof. Sarah Weiss. July, 2010 July 20, 2010: My analysis of Shulamit Ran's String Quartet no. 1 has been published in Israeli Music Institute's journal. You can read the article in Hebrew here, but the original English version should appear sometime this year, as the IMI's website is undergoing an upgrade. Special thanks to Uri Golumb, for his fantastic translation and editorial help!