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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 79: Edy Cohen: Israel’s supreme leader in Arabic
Description: When it comes to Israel, there’s no more powerful a journalistic voice across the Arab world than Edy Cohen.This is his one-man story.You likely won’t have heard of Edy, but note the name, because he tweets mostly in Arabic. Edy has half a million X followers, almost exclusively in the Middle East and North Africa.Educating, informing, entertaining, even mocking Arabs in the colloquial language of the street - his mother tongue.He was born in Beirut in Lebanon, as were his parents and grandparents. fluent in Arab...