We invite you to the next meeting in Olivia’s Conversations series: “Is the Middle East the key to world peace?” Our guest will be Paweł Rakowski, a journalist and publicist commenting on Middle Eastern events, co-author of the books “Lebanon. More than a guide”, as well as “Israel’s Great War. A real Fauda from Gaza to Syria”. This is the first Polish monograph on Hamas’s war against Israel in 2023-2024, published in 2025, written together with Michał Bruszewski.

• Will the war in the Middle East escalate?
• Will the change of power in Syria affect Russia’s involvement in Ukraine?
• Are the peace terms presented by Donald Trump achievable?
• Why was Israel caught off guard by the Hamas attack, and what is Hamas anyway?
• Is Iran on the eve of producing its nuclear bomb?

We will answer these and many other questions with our guest 13 March 2025, 5:30 p.m., Olivia Sky Club . Admission is free with prior reservation of the entrance ticket. The number of places is limited.

Read: The end of the war in Syria. A new geopolitical order in the Middle East

Paweł Rakowski is a graduate of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of the Middle and Far East at the Jagiellonian University. Blogger, journalist, author of texts, books and reportages on the Middle East, the borderlands and the transformations of the modern world. Commentator on Middle Eastern events, m.in. for Polish Radio 24.

About the reportage “Israel’s Great War. The Real Fauda from Gaza to Syria.”, which he co-authored (together with Michał Bruszewski), a reviewer with the pseudonym JOA writes as follows: “If someone watched the title Fauda, or read/listened to the news about the war between Hamas and Israel, wondered what it was really about, he should read this book. I think that thanks to it we can try to understand the current situation in the Middle East. The authors promise to show the truth about Israel’s new war, and in my opinion, they keep their promise.”