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For episode 190 of The Fire These Times, Dr. Michael Paarlberg talks to Dana El Kurd about El Salvador's ‘state of exception' under Nayib Bukele, how Trump sees that as a model, the conditions of Salvadorian prisons and what happens to the Venezuelan and other refugees and migrants deported from the USA by Trump and the unaccountable state actors doing his bidding.Paarlberg is associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and non-resident fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He was previously on TFTT in August of 2024 (episode 164) to talk about how Bukele created a ‘Gang State' in El Salvador. As that was before Trump's election, it is a good primer into what is it about El Salvador today that makes it so appealing to the maga movement.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.To get early access to our episodes as well as other perks (monthly hangout, movie club, exclusive content and so on) you can join our patreon at Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery For more:Dana El Kurd is on BlueskyMichael Paarlberg is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits: Dana El Kurd (host), Elia Ayoub (producer, episode designer), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
For episode 189 of The Fire These Times, Elia Ayoub is joined by friend of the pod Molly Crabapple to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and how their concept of Doikayt (‘Hereness') can help us build a better world than the hellscape being proposed by techno-dystopianism and end-time fascism. Molly's upcoming book is called “here where we live is our country: the story of the jewish labor bund.” Speaking of end-time fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor will be joining Elia and Dana El Kurd on TFTT to talk about their essay “The rise of end times fascism.” To get early access to that episode as well as other perks (monthly hangout, movie club, exclusive content and so on) you can join our patreon on Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.For more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net Molly has a website and newsletterThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics). Molly's portrait on the cover photo is also done by her.
Elia reads and comments on his essay "Restorative vs reflective nostalgia" for Hauntologies.net The Hauntologies Podcast is a production of From The Periphery and part of The Fire These Times podcast. A newsletter version exists at hauntologies.net but most recordings will be for Patreon supporters only.To support us, please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery to subscribe. For More:Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon and InstagramFrom the Periphery is on Bluesky and InstagramThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky and InstagramFrom The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!
On this edition of Parallax Views, host J.G. Michael engages renowned Israeli pollster Dahlia Scheindlin in a revealing discussion on the evolution of Israeli civil society and its dynamic relationship with both Palestinian civil society and internal societal shifts within Israel. Drawing from her insightful essay, “The Rise, Weakening, and Resurgence of Civil Society in Israel,” Dahlia navigates the complex interplay of historical, political, and social forces that have shaped civic life in the region. - Internal Transformation: Explore how the transition to the Likud government in the 1970s led to the weakening of Israel's welfare state, creating a vacuum that civil society eagerly filled with new social and political initiatives. - Historical Perspectives: Trace the development of Israeli civil society from its Zionist origins through the transformative eras of the Oslo Accords and beyond, while examining how these shifts have paralleled, intersected, and at times clashed with Palestinian civic movements. - Interplay of Resistance and Repression: Learn how grassroots resistance against occupation as well as anti-democratic movements in Israel has fueled a dynamic interplay between Israeli and Palestinian civil societies, fostering both collaboration and contention in the quest for justice and democratic reform. - Legislative and Social Backlash: Understand the impact of autocratic policies and legislative attacks under Netanyahu's government, which not only suppressed dissent but also galvanized a renewed civic activism among diverse groups. - Turning Points and Future Prospects: Delve into the dramatic civic mobilization following the events of October 7, 2023, and explore what this resurgence means for the future of democratic engagement and cross-community solidarity in a divided society. This episode offers a compelling narrative that weaves together historical context, political resistance, and the powerful role of civic action in shaping both Israeli and Palestinian futures. We will also discuss Dahlia's recent trip to the United States, where she is currently on a speaking tour. Additionally, Dahlia and will discuss into the gap between the perspectives of diaspora populations vs. those living in Israel/Palestine. You can currently obtain an ebook download of Suppressing Dissent, which features Dahlia's essay, for FREE at the Carnegie Endowment website. Contributors include such previous Parallax Views guests as Nathan J. Brown, Dana El Kurd, and Dahlia Scheindlin as well as Lara Friedman, Marwa Fatafta, Yael Berda, Jessica Buxbaum, and many others.
Our very own Ayman Makarem released his new video essay ‘Where Are the Arabs?' on March 9, 2025. In this round table, he is joined by Elia and israa to expand on the topics discussed in the video, the context around it, and the need for more intellectual and class-based analysis on Arab nationalism and its many manifestations. If you haven't watched the video yet you'll still be able to follow this episode since Ayman provides a brief overview of the main themes. If you have watched the video, there are some key additions and interventions made by all 3 hosts that explore the themes of the video deeper. This is part 2 of that discussion, first published on Patreon. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.You can support us on Patreon. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more.For more:Ayman Makarem is on Bluesky and InstagramElia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net Israa is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Ayman Makarem (host, producer, sound editor), Elia Ayoub (host), Israa (host), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (original TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design), Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics), Elia Ayoub (episode design).From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti and israa abd elfattah.The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Our very own Ayman Makarem released his new video essay ‘Where Are the Arabs?' on March 9, 2025. In this round table, he is joined by Elia and israa to expand on the topics discussed in the video, the context around it, and the need for more intellectual and class-based analysis on Arab nationalism and its many manifestations. If you haven't watched the video yet you'll still be able to follow this episode since Ayman provides a brief overview of the main themes. If you have watched the video, there are some key additions and interventions made by all 3 hosts that explore the themes of the video deeper. This is part 1 of the discussion. Part 2 will be released next week. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.You can support us on Patreon. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more.For more:Ayman Makarem is on Bluesky and InstagramElia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net Israa is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Ayman Makarem (host, producer, sound editor), Elia Ayoub (host), Israa (host), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (original TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design), Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics), Elia Ayoub (episode design).From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti and israa abd elfattah.The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
On this edition of Parallax Views, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Zaha Hassan returns to the program alongside first-time guest Yousef Munayyer, a Senior Fellow at the Arab Center Washington D.C., to discuss the new book she co-edited with H.A. Hellyer entitled Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression, and Palestine-Israel. Yousef is a contributor to the Suppressing Dissent and, amongst other things, he will discuss his piece in the book entitled "Closing Spaces Beyond Borders: Israel's Transnational Repression Network". Zaha will discuss a number of topics related to the book as well including her contribution, co-written with Layla Gantus, called "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Impact of Israel's Occupation and Palestinian Authoritarianism on Community Organizing and NGOs". The conversation will begin, of course, with a discussion of a case that makes this book timelier than ever: the detainment of Columbia University pro-Palestinian student protester Mahmoud Khalil by the Trump administration. From there we will discuss such issues as the Israeli-based NSO Group's infamous Pegasus spyware being used against Palestinian civil society organizations, the long shadow of the Oslo Accords, the interplay between the Israeli occupation and the governance in Gaza and the West Bank, revisiting Zaha's paper on the Human Rights-centric approach to dealing with Israel/Palestine, the debanking of Palestinian civil society individuals and organizations, the Palestinian Authority vs. Palestinian civil society, and much, much more. You can currently obtain an ebook download of Suppressing Dissent for FREE at the Carnegie Endowment website. Contributors include such previous Parallax Views guests as Nathan J. Brown, Dana El Kurd, and Dahlia Scheindlin as well as Lara Friedman, Marwa Fatafta, Yael Berda, Jessica Buxbaum, and many others.
For episode 185, Elia Ayoub is joined by Ukrainian journalist and repeated guest Romeo Kokriatski to talk about the recent developments in Ukraine, especially in light of the Trump administration's open intentions to shift USA support from Ukraine to Russia, and what this means for Ukraine, Europe and the USA. As this episode is time-sensitive we are releasing it on Patreon and publicly at the same time. Comments are for Patreons only.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more.For more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net Romeo Kokriatski is on Bluesky, co-hosts the Ukraine Without Hype and Radio Free America podcasts, and is a Managing Editor of New Voice Ukraine. The Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design), Romeo Kokriatski (guest), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (original TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design), Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics), Elliott Miskovicz (sound editor, producer).From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti and israa abd elfattah.The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
On Feb 27, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-time jailed leader of the PKK (Kurdish Worker's Party), released a statement that shocked many. In the statement he called for the PKK to lay down their arms, which could spell the end of the 40-year long armed struggle against the Turkish state, and for the creation of a legal, diplomatic framework to ensure inclusion, rights, and dignity for the Kurdish communities within a democratic Turkish nation. In this episode, Ayman Makarem, Israa, and Karena Avedissian are joined by Dîlan who provides a thorough overview of the present moment, situates it within the longer history of the Kurdish struggle, and explores analysis of what this all means - for Kurds and other communities across the WANA region. As this episode is time-sensitive we are releasing it on Patreon and publicly at the same time.Dîlan is a reluctant academic and tired organizer. She is interested in alternative historiographies, feminist methodologies, and memory. She considers herself an equal-opportunity hater regarding states and authoritarian power structures, and is a dedicated skeptic of reactionary tendencies in both organizing and academic spheres.Links:https://wjas.org/en/the-foundation/https://nudemorg.com/support/https://rojavainformationcenter.org/donate/The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more.For more:Ayman Makarem is on Bluesky and InstagramKarena Avedissian is on Bluesky Israa is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Ayman Makarem (host, producer, sound editor), Karena Avidissian (host), Israa (host), Dîlan (guest), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (original TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design), Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics), Elia Ayoub (episode design).From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti and israa abd elfattah.The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
In this special collab episode betweenObscuristan and The Fire These Times, Karena Avedissian and Anna are joined by Daniel Voskoboynik to discuss the life of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and what his death means for those of us not quite at the heart of the Russian empire.Obscuristan and The Fire These Times are proud members of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, andAntidote Zine. To support FTP please head out toPatreon.Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done byAntidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.For more:Karena Avedissian is onBlueskyObscuristan is onInstagram Daniel Voskoboynik is onBluesky and has anewsletter and awebsiteThe Fire These Times is onBluesky,IG and YouTube and has awebsite From The Periphery is onPatreon,Bluesky,YouTube,Instagram, and has awebsiteCredits:Hosts: Karena Avedissian and Anna | Guest: Daniel Voskoboynik | Music: Sarven Yapar | TFTT theme design:Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design:Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Anna | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producers: Elia Ayoub and AnnaFrom The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed underAttribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International
This is a conversation withWilliam C. Anderson, author of the bookThe Nation on No Map (AK Press 2021) and co-author ofAs Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). He's also the co-founder ofOffshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of theBlack Autonomy Podcast.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, andAntidote Zine. To support FTP please head toPatreon.For more:William C Anderson has awebsiteElia Ayoub is onMastodon,IG,Bluesky, and he hasa newsletterThe Fire These Times is onIG and YouTube and has awebsite From The Periphery is onPatreon,YouTube,Instagram, and has awebsiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done byAntidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Host: Elia Ayoub | Guest: William C Anderson | Music:Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design:Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design:Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producer: Elliott Miskovicz and Elia AyoubFrom The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed underAttribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International
Elia reads and comments on his essay "Punishing the land: Israeli symbolism during the Gaza genocide" for Hauntologies.net He was also on Al Jazeera to talk about how the Israelis mark the lands they destroy (link in the newsletter). The Hauntologies Podcast is a production of From The Periphery and part of The Fire These Times podcast. A newsletter version exists at hauntologies.net. To support us, please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery to subscribe. You are free to republish and translate the text and audio as long as you credit us with the appropriate patreon link. For More: Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon and Instagram From the Periphery is on Bluesky and Instagram The Fire These Times is on Bluesky and Instagram From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!
Elia Ayoub goes into his essay for hauntologies.net in which he asks: what does it mean to lose the future? The film explored is Maher Abi Samra's 'We Were Communists' (2011). It will be part of our upcoming movie club on the patreon. The Hauntologies Podcast is a production of From The Periphery and part of The Fire These Times podcast. A newsletter version exists at hauntologies.net. To support us, please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery to subscribe. You are free to republish and translate the text and audio as long as you credit us with the appropriate patreon link. For More: Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon and Instagram From the Periphery is on Bluesky and Instagram The Fire These Times is on Bluesky and Instagram From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!
For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with a panel of leading experts to discuss the recent ceasefire in Gaza, including: Natan Sachs, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Dan Byman, Professor at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; and Dr. Dana El-Kurd, Professor at the University of Richmond. They discussed the terms of the ceasefire, who deserves credit for bringing it into place, what factors may contribute to its ultimate success or failure, and where it is likely to lead in the weeks and months to come.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Elia Ayoub reads from his Hauntologies.net piece "This Moment. Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza" which is available for free. Hauntologies.net readings and commentaries will be released as premium episodes as part of the upcoming 'The Hauntologies Podcast' for our Patreon subscribers. If you are on Apple Podcasts: We recommend subscribing via Patreon instead of Apple's FTP Premium as it is a friendlier option to creators. Go to the website, subscribe there and use the RSS feed to listen on your iPhones. If you are a paid subscriber to Hauntologies.net you will have the same audio as part of the regular newsletter, so you won't have to pay twice to get access to these. From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!
For episode 183, Leila and Elia are joined by Wendy Pearlman to discuss her newest book, The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora as well as her previous book We Crossed a Bridge and Trembled. Note that we recorded this episode on November 9, 2024 – just weeks prior to the ousting of the Assad regime. As such, a few small details of the conversation are now ‘outdated', however the conversation we had and Wendy's books still remain extremely relevant and important to understanding the Syrian revolution, war, and its present day. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine. Mentioned in this episode: Wendy Pearlman's bio The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora by Wendy Pearlman We Crossed a Bridge and Trembled by Wendy Pearlman Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym Resilient: Broken by Elia Ayoub Syrian Association for Citizens' Dignity for reports on Syrian refugees, forced returns to Syria, and other stories and analyses of the Syrian political context From the Periphery's newly released Mutual Aid Podcast For more: Wendy is on Bluesky and has a website Leila is on Mastodon and Bluesky, and check out her website Elia Ayoub is on Mastodon, IG, Bluesky, and he has a newsletter The Fire These Times is on IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, YouTube, Instagram, and has a website Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive. Credits: Hosts: Leila Al-Shami, Elia Ayoub | Guest: Wendy Pearlman | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Kaylee | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Aydın Yıldız | Producer: Aydın Yıldız From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed underAttribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International
For episode 182, Elia, Anna, and Dana are joined by author, scholar, and activist Naomi Klein to discuss her most recent book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, and the myriad connections her analysis of the cultural rise of fascism has to our work at From the Periphery. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine. For more: Naomi Klein has a website, a newsletter, and is on Instagram and Bluesky Elia Ayoub is on Mastodon, Instagram, and Bluesky, and he has a newsletter Anna's podcast is Obscuristan which is part of the From The Periphery Media Collective Dana El Kurd is on Bluesky The Fire These Times is on IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and has a website Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive. Credits: Hosts: Elia Ayoub, Anna M, Dana El Kurd | Guest: Naomi Klein | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Kaylee | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producer: Aydın Yıldız From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities, employers, or other affiliations the speakers may have.
Elia Ayoub reads from his newsletter piece "Merry Christmas Homs: Tribute to Bassel Shehadeh's Last City" which is available for free. It is a reference to a short film directed by Bassel during Christmas 2011 in Homs under heavy shelling by the Assad regime. You can watch it on YouTube. Trigger warning: this audio features some sounds from the original film, including airstrikes. They come right after Elia says 'at times getting closer' at around 1:25 seconds. Skip to 1:59 to avoid them. As this is time sensitive, it is released on the public feed shortly after the Patreon. If you're seeing this from the public feed, please consider joining our Patreon to support this podcast as well as all the other podcasts by FTP. Follow Wafa Mustafa on Instagram to get updates on her ongoing search for her father, Ali Mustafa. Quick announcement: Elia and Leila Al-Shami are going to launch a new podcast called The Inconvenient Revolution focusing on Syrian history between 2011 and 2024. From the Periphery (FTP) Patreon subscribers will get all episodes before the general public. From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 181, Elia Ayoub is joined by Margaret Killjoy to talk about her piece "The Sky is Falling; We've Got This" published on her newsletter. We recorded this shortly after Trump was announced as the winner of the US elections and many people were feeling despair, understandably so. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidote Zine and published on this website. For more: Living Like the World is Dying w/ Margaret Killjoy Follow The Fire These Times on IG and YouTube From The Periphery is on YouTube, Instagram, and has a website Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon, IG. He has a newsletter and a website Margaret is on Instagram and Bluesky. She has a website and a newsletter. Credits: Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producer: Elliott Miskovicz From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
There is so much talking about Israel, the war on Gaza, Lebanon and now Syria, but what about Palestinian politics? In this episode I talked to Dana El Kurd a Palestinian political scientist with a deep knowledge and understanding of Palestinian politics. We started our conversation discussing her book published in 2020 Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine, from there we move to talk about the incoming Trump administration, the role of Saudi Arabia but more importantly how politics is experienced and imagined in Palestine.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/jerusalemunplugged. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
For episode 180, Leila Al-Shami and Elia Ayoub are joined by Dr Banah Ghadbian to talk about her piece "Give Us Our Land Back: The Golan Heights, Greenwashing, Syria and Palestine's Intertwined Revolutions" published on Spectre Journal. As the title suggests, we spoke of the importance of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the liberation of both Palestine and Syria. This was recorded before the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria. Since then, Israel has already taken steps to occupy more of Syrian territory in the Golan Heights, making Banah's arguments about how Syria and Palestine's freedoms are intertwined even more pertinent. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidote Zine and published on this website. For more: Listen to the previous episode with Banah on TFTT: 78/ Pedagogies of Liberation, Gender and the Syrian Revolution Follow The Fire These Times on IG and YouTube From The Periphery is on YouTube, Instagram, and has a website Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon, IG. He has a newsletter and a website. Leila is on Mastodon and Bluesky. She has a website. Credits: Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producer: Elliott Miskovicz From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 179, Beirut-based journalist Justin Salhani is joined with New York University professor and journalist Mohamad Bazzi to talk about the situation in Lebanon before and after the ceasefire with Israel. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidote Zine and published on this website. For more: Follow The Fire These Times on IG and YouTube From The Periphery is on YouTube, Instagram, and has a website More links: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/27/israel-lebanon-gaza-war-biden https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mohamad-bazzi https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/11/10/in-lebanon-misleading-and-sporadic-israeli-evacuation-orders-instil-fear https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/10/26/once-upon-a-time-in-dahiyeh-israels-destruction-of-lebanons-communities Books recommended by Bazzi: Rashid Khalidi 100 years war Fawaz Traboulsi A History of Modern Lebanon David Hirst Beware of Small States Credits: Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producers: Elliott Miskovicz and Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
A lot has happened over the last week in Syria, so we figured we'd gather together, as members of From the Periphery, to discuss the latest developments and provide a historical and political background to help understand the current moment. We discuss a broad range of topics starting with an overview of the what's happened in the last week or so, including: the origins of the Syrian revolution, the counter-revolutionary war, the abuses and crimes of the Assad regime, foreign interventions and regional factors, descriptions of groups such as HTS (Hayat Tahrir al Sham) and SNA (Syria National Army), Kurdish movements and the concerns of ethnic/religious minorities, the racist tankie 'take' industry, and the connections between liberatory movements for Palestine and Syria. We cover a lot but of course we couldn't do everything justice. We will provide links below for further resources, but also plan on doing more episodes in the near future on all these topics as things develop and progress. --- --- The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidote Zine and published on this website. Episode links: Bluesky thread of Syria-related TFTT episodes Bluesky thread of resources on Syria For more: Follow The Fire These Times on IG and YouTube From The Periphery is on YouTube, Instagram, and has a website Follow Leila on Twitter and Mastodon and Bluesky Check out Leila's blog Credits: Guests: Leila Al-Shami, Elia Ayoub, Karina Avedissian, Ayman Makarem | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Ayman Makarem| Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producers: Ayman Makarem From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 177, Leila is joined by Serge from Buzuruna Juzuruna, an agro-ecological farm and heirloom seed producer in the Bekka Valley working on food autonomy, and Abir from Hostel Beirut, a worker owned cooperative in the heart of the Lebanese capital committed to social and economic justice for all. We talk about the current situation in Lebanon following the Israeli invasion, the mutual aid initiatives both guests are involved in during the current crisis, and what international solidarity looks like in their context. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidote Zine and published on this website. Episode links: Hostel Beirut Solidarity Call Lebanon Solidarity Collective/Buzuruna Juzuruna fundraiser (in French) People to People Initiative The Peoples Want Mutual Aid Lebanon (From the Periphery) For more: Follow The Fire These Times on IG and YouTube From The Periphery is on YouTube, Instagram, and has a website Follow Leila on Twitter and Mastodon and Bluesky Check out Leila's blog Credits: Host: Leila Al-Shami | Guests: Abir & Serge | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Ayman Makarem| Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producers: Leila Al-Shami & Aydın Yıldız From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 176, Dana El Kurd is joined by Atalia Omer, professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame to discuss her work on the convergences between American neoconservatism, Christian Zionism, and Israeli politics, as well as how attacking Palestine is being used to advance right-wing politics around the world. Omer discusses the impact of American right-wing politics on knowledge production and the study of Palestine, the Israeli Kahanist far right, and broader trends of Israeli violence. The Fire These Times (TFTT) is part of the From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. To support our work, please head out to Patreon and get early access to all podcasts, an invite to join our monthly hangout, exclusive content, and more. Books by Atalia - Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidotezine and published on The Fire These Times. Credits: Host(s): Dana El Kurd | Guest: Atalia Omer | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 175, Elia Ayoub and Anna (co-host of Obscuristan) are joined by Larisa Jašarević to talk about her new book “Beekeeping in the End Times.” They delve into bees and Abrahamic faiths, climate change, folk tradition, and above all how we can all be connecting to the natural world while still remaining rooted in ourselves and our lives. The Fire These Times (TFTT) is part of the From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. To support our work, please head out to Patreon and get early access to all podcasts, an invite to join our monthly hangout, exclusive content, and more. Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidotezine and published on The Fire These Times. Pluggables: Jašarević's website The Fire These Times' website From The Periphery is on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and has a website Elia Ayoub is on Mastodon, Instagram, and Bluesky, and he has a newsletter Anna's podcast is Obscuristan which is part of the From The Periphery Media Collective Credits: Host(s): Elia Ayoub & Anna | Guest: Larisa Jašarević | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 174, Elia and Ayman sit down to talk about Lebanon. As our little country is in the news for all the worst reasons, we thought it a good idea to give y'all an overview of Lebanese history. Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidotezine and published on The Fire These Times. Pluggables: The Fire These Times has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and has a website Elia Ayoub is on Mastodon, Instagram, and Bluesky, and he has a newsletter. Politically Depressed is on Instagram Credits: Host(s): Elia Ayoub & Ayman Makarem | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Info coming soon | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, and israa abd elfattah. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective.
On this episode of On the Nose—recorded live at Jewish Currents's daylong event on September 15th—editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with a panel of authors, scholars, and activists about the movement for Palestinian freedom in the wake of Israel's genocide. Noura Erakat, Fadi Quran, Dana El Kurd, Amjad Iraqi, and Ahmed Moor discuss the challenge of Palestinian unity under Israel's program of fragmentation, the resurgence of the two-state solution and decline of the coexistence paradigm, American Jews' role in organizing their communities against Zionism, and the task of imagining a liberated future.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).Texts Mentioned and Further Reading:Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine by Dana El KurdJustice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura ErakatAfter Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine, edited by Anthony Loewenstein and Ahmed MoorHamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance by Tareq BaconiPolling by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research“Zionism Killed the Jewish-Muslim World,” Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, JacobinProtocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions1968 Palestinian National Charter“How Durham, North Carolina, became the first US city to ban police exchanges with Israel,” Zaina Alsous and Sammy Hanf, Scalawag
For episode 173, Elias Jahshan joins Elia Ayoub, israa abd elfattah and Leila Al-Shami to talk about "This Arab Is Queer" anthology, which he edited and was published by Saqi Books in 2022. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Episode Links: Elias' articles at Gay Times TIMEP Q&A with Elias What is Pinkwashing? co-authored by Elias Jahshan and Hayfaa Chalabi for Shado Mag Elias' articles at Star Observer Elias' articles at The New Arab Check out Our first video essay on YouTube by Ayman Makarem: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims and subscribe to our channel Elia Ayoub's newsletter Hauntologies.net Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidotezine and published on The Fire These Times. Pluggables: The Fire These Times has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and has a website Elia Ayoub is on Mastodon, Instagram, and Bluesky, and he has a newsletter. Elias Jahshan is on Instagram, Twitter and Bluesky Leila Al-Shami is on Mastodon, Twitter and has a blog Credits: Host(s): israa abd elfattah, Leila Al-Shami and Elia Ayoub | Guest(s): Elias Jahshan | Producer(s): Elia Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 172, Elia Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik talk about a very difficult topic: the Holocaust and the Nakba. The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza brings up urgent questions about how memory is weaponized. Elia also talks about Jonathan Glazer,'s The Zone of Interest and the haunting parallels between the everyday life of the Nazi family portrayed in that movie, and the normalization of genocidal rhetoric in Israeli politics today. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. If you are already subscribed, thank you! Please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts, share our episodes, and tell your friends about them. Episode Links: Elia's piece: The Ghosts of Israel's Future, Part 1 Multidirectionary Memory by Michael Rothberg Rachel Auerbuch, Yad Vashem and Israeli Holocaust Memory Unzere Kinder, a film (1946, 1948) Ancestral Future, by Ailton Krenak Trailer of The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer calls out Israel's weaponisation of the holocaust Mir Kumen On, a film (1936) The Holocaust and the Nakba: a new Grammar of Trauma and History Raez Zreik: The Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question Check out First video essay on YouTube by Ayman Makarem: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims and subscribe to our channel Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidotezine and published on The Fire These Times. Pluggables: The Fire These Times has a website From The Periphery has a website and is on Patreon, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter Elia Ayoub is on Mastodon, Instagram, and Bluesky, and he has a newsletter: Hauntologies.net Daniel Voskoboynik is on Instagram, and he has a newsletter: The Ecology of Us Credits: Host(s): Elia Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik | Producers: Aydın Yıldız, Elia Ayoub, israa' abdel fattah, Ayman Makarem and/or Leila Al-Shami | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa' abdel fattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 171, Elia Ayoub and guest host Hari Prasad are joined by Lateef Johar Baloch, a human rights advocate and a member of the Human Rights Council of Balochistan to talk to us about the history of Pakistani oppression and authoritarianism in Balochistan and the ongoing resistance against it. We also talked about broader issues facing Balochistan today including the role of foreign powers such as China and the USA. Note: this was recorded on 24 August 2024, two days before the attack in Musakhel. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Check out First video essay on YouTube by Ayman Makarem: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims and subscribe to our channel Elia Ayoub's newsletter Hauntologies.net Episode Links: Baloch recently co-wrote an article entitled "State-Sponsored Violence & the Violation of Dignity in Balochistan." Profile of Lateef Johar on The Walrus ‘She has won our hearts and minds': can one woman unite the Baloch people in peaceful resistance? BBC article on enforced disappearances in Balochistan Interview with Mahrang Baloch of the Baloch Yakjehti (Solidarity) Committee (BYC) Instagram post by Farhad Baloch Video of BYC representative Dr. Sabiha Baloch Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidotezine and published on The Fire These Times. Pluggables: The Fire These Times in on the website and Instagram From The Periphery in on Patreon, YouTube, the website and Twitter Elia Ayoub is on Substack, Mastodon, Instagram, Twitter, and Bluesky, and check out his website. Hari Prasad is on Bluesky, and check out his website Lateef Johar Baloch is on Twitter Credits: Host(s): Haris Prasad and Elia Ayoub | Guest(s): Lateef Johar Baloch | Producers: Aydın Yıldız, Elia Ayoub, israa abd elfattah, Ayman Makarem and Leila Al-Shami | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 170, returning guest Musa Okwonga talks to Elia Ayoub about a piece he wrote, "The Hatred Is Accelerating", on racism and the far right in Germany. This was recorded on 31 August 2024, a day before the fascist AfD party won top place in Thuringia and second in Saxony in the state elections. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. How to Support: on Patreon or on Apple Podcasts. You'll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more. Previous TFTT episodes with Musa Okwonga We Need to Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani Football is Political: #Qatar2022, Russia and What Comes Next w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani Special 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Retrospective w/ Musa Okwonga, Fabien Goa and Justin Salhani In the End, It Was All About Love w/ Musa Okwonga Being the Good Immigrant in an Ungrateful Country w/ Musa Okwonga Check out 2018 article by Musa: Berliners have shown how to stop the march of the far right The Far Right is Not Inevitable with Aurelien Mondon The work of Jakob Springfeld and Philipp Ruch. Also: Polylulx and International Women* Space First video essay on YouTube by Ayman Makarem: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims and subscribe to our channel Elia Ayoub's newsletter Hauntologies.net Recommended reads and listens: Critical Muslim: German Redemption Theology by Adnan Delalic London Review of Books: Memory Failure by Pankaj Mishra 972Mag: Germany's anti-Palestinian censorship turns on Jews by Hebh Jamal Jewish Currents' "On The Nose Podcast" The Trouble with Germany, part I Jewish Currents' "On The Nose Podcast" The Trouble with Germany, part II Granta: Once Again, Germany defines who is a Jew, part I by George Prochnik, Eyal Weizman & Emily Dische-Becker Granta: Once Again, Germany defines who is a Jew, part II by George Prochnik, Eyal Weizman & Emily Dische-Becker IWriteStuff.Blog: The Jewish and Arab Questions, and European Fascism by Elia Ayoub The Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question by Raef Zreik Books by Musa Okwonga (website):Please support your local bookshops and public libraries by ordering them there whenever possible. In The End, It Was All About Love One of Them: An Eton College Memoir Striking Out: The Debut Novel from Superstar Striker Ian Wright Raheem Sterling (Football Legends #1) with Stanley Chow Eating Roses for Dinner A Cultured Left Foot: The Eleven Elements of Footballing Greatness Transcriptions: Transcriptions will be by Antidotezine and published on The Fire These Times. Pluggables: The Fire These Times in on the website and Instagram From The Periphery in on Patreon, YouTube, the website and Twitter Elia Ayoub is on Mastodon, Instagram, Twitter, and Bluesky, and check out his newsletter and website Credits: Host(s): Elia Ayoub | Guest(s): Musa Okwonga | Producers: Aydın Yıldız, Elia Ayoub, Israa Abdel Fattah, Ayman Makarem and Leila Al-Shami | Music: Rap and Revenge | TFTT theme design: Wenyi Geng | FTP theme design: Hisham Rifai | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple | Episode design: Elia Ayoub From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, Israa Abdel Fattah, with more joining soon! The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
For episode 164, Dana El-Kurd is joined by Michael Paarlbeg, associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, to discuss the intersection between crime and authoritarian politics in Latin America. They particularly focus on the the state of emergency happening today in El Salvador, covering the rise of Nayib Bukele and the political implications of the “gang state” emerging in the country. The best way to support The Fire These Times is to become a member of our "From The Periphery" Patreon. For only 5$ a month (and less if you pay yearly) you get perks such as early access, exclusive episodes, an invitation to our monthly hangout, upcoming book clubs, and more. You can also help a lot by leaving a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Show notes: Transnational Gangs and Criminal Remittances (academic article, Comparative Migration Studies) The Emerging Gang State in El Salvador (Global Americans) Gang Membership in Central America: More Complex Than Meets the Eye (Migration Policy Institute) How a Fake Gang Crisis in the US Fueled a Real One in Central America (Duke conference) Gangs, Guns and Judas Priest (The Guardian) Credits: Host(s): Dana El-Kurd Guest(s): Michael Paarlberg Music: Rap and Revenge Sound editor: Liam Evans Episode designer: Elia J. Ayoub Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple Original TFTT design: Wenyi Geng TFTT Transcripts: Antidotezine
For episode 160, Dana El Kurd, Fabien Goa and Elia Ayoub are joined by Nikesh Shukla to discuss his book 'Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home' which the three of us read with Gaza on our mind (although it was written in 2021 and is not on Palestine). More broadly, we talked about what it's like to raise a brown kid in a world where racialized lives are easily disposable. On Brown Baby: From the editor of The Good Immigrant. We have to believe in hope in these dark uncertain times. Hope brings us together. How do you find hope and even joy in a world that is racist, sexist and facing climate crisis? How do you prepare your children for it, but also fill them with all the boundlessness and eccentricity that they deserve and that life has to offer? Nikesh Shukla explores themes of racism, feminism, parenting and our shifting ideas of home. This heartbreaking, compelling, intensely relatable memoir is a love letter to the author's late mother – who passed away just before his eldest daughter was born – and to his two young daughters. In Brown Baby, Shukla examines, with humour and sharp, beautiful prose, how to raise the next generation with a sense of joy in an often bleak world. The best way to support The Fire These Times is to: Become a member of our Patreon at Patreon.com/firethesetimes. With a monthly or yearly subscription, you get perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the video and book clubs, merch and more. Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. This allows us to show up on these platforms in the first place. Tell your friends and enemies about it. Credits: Host(s): Dana El Kurd, Fabien Goa and Elia J. Ayoub Producer: Elia J. Ayoub Guest: Nikesh Shukla Music: Rap and Revenge Sound editor: Mae-Li Evans (May-Lee) Episode designer: Elia J. Ayoub Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple Original TFTT design: Wenyi Geng TFTT Transcripts: Antidotezine
For Episode 159, Dana El Kurd and Elia Ayoub are joined by Ukrainian researcher Yuliia Kishchuk who signed the Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people published on the Ukrainian journal Commons, a site that both Dana and Elia have also contributed to in the past. In this episode, they argue for Palestinian-Ukrainian solidarity and explore the obstacles preventing it from happening more broadly. The best way to support The Fire These Times is to: Become a member of our Patreon at Patreon.com/firethesetimes. With a monthly or yearly subscription, you get perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the video and book clubs, merch and more. Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. This allows us to show up on these platforms in the first place. Tell your friends and enemies about it. Further Reads: - “The right to resist.” A feminist manifesto by The Feminist Initiative Group - Cross-stitches that bind us together: on Ukrainian and Palestinian embroidery by Yuliia Kishchuk Credits: - Host(s): Dana El Kurd and Elia J. Ayoub - Producer: Elia J. Ayoub - Guest: Yuliia Kishchuk - Music: Rap and Revenge - Sound editor: Karena Avedissian - Episode designer: Elia J. Ayoub - Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple - Original TFTT design: Wenyi Geng - TFTT Transcripts: Antidotezine
For episode 152, Dana El Kurd hosts Geoffrey Levin to talk about his book "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978". Levin is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University and the Director of Undergraduate Engagement at Emory's Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. Our Palestine Question is a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights. Given the ongoing genocide launched by the Israeli state on the Palestinians of Gaza, this book couldn't be more timely. Show notes: Ezra Klein - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/opinion/netanyahu-biden-israel-gaza.html David Klion - https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/01/28/the-exile-of-the-american-jewish-left/ The threshold of dissent - https://nyupress.org/9781479829316/the-threshold-of-dissent Necessity of Exile (Shaul Magid's book) - https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9798986780313 The best way to support The Fire These Times is: Through Patreon.com/firethesetimes. With a monthly or yearly donation, you get perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the video and book clubs, merch and more. Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. This allows us to show up on these platforms in the first place. Tell your friends and enemies about it. Episode Credits: Host: Dana El KurdProducer: Joey AyoubGuest: Geoffrey LevinMusic: Rap and RevengeSound editor: Joey AyoubEpisode designer: Joey Ayoub
For episode 148, Dana El Kurd and Joey Ayoub are joined by Diana Greenwald and Alexei Abrahams to talk about seen and unseen violence in Israel-Palestine. They explore the many forms of violence of the Israeli occupation that led to the October 7 massacre and the brutal Israeli response in Gaza. What is kinetic violence? What is structural violence? And how do these two differ? Diana is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at The City University of New York. Her research focuses on the politics of the Middle East, nationalism, conflict, and state-building. She obtained her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 2017. From 2017-8, she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her current book manuscript examines Palestinian local politics under Israeli occupation. This project draws on elite interviews and local data on policing and taxation collected in the West Bank between 2014 to 2019. Alexei leads the digital trace team at the Canadian Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO), McGill University. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Social Media Observatory (No Starch Press, 2024), on how to code full-stack web applications for public interest research on contemporary political discourse. He's also the author of "Seeing absence and all its instruments: How decontextualization of kinetic violence undermines our understanding of the Israel-Palestine Conflict." The best way to support The Fire These Times is through Patreon.com/firethesetimes. The other best way is to leave a review about The Fire These Times wherever you listen to podcasts. And the other other best way is to tell your friends and enemies about The Fire These Times. Episode Credits Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Ayman Makarem Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: Ayman Makarem Episode design: Joey Ayoub
On this edition of Parallax Views, we turn from our coverage of the Gaza War and to cast a vital eye on the ongoing Israeli Occupation in the West Bank and the explosion of settler violence that has exploded there in the past two months. Prof. Dana El-Kurd, author of Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine and assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Richmond. and Prof. Diana B. Greenwald, author of the upcoming book Mayors in the Middle: Indirect Rule and Local Government in Occupied Palestine and assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the City College of New York, join the show for an in-depth discussion of the situation in the West Bank and the plight of Palestinians there. The situation in the West Bank and settler violence supported by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir remains an important issue when discussing Israel/Palestine at this current moment of crisis. We hope you find this show informative.
In episode 146, Joey Ayoub and Dana El-Kurd talk to Sally Abed, Orly Noy and Amjad Iraqi. Abed is a member of the national leadership of Standing Together (עומדים ביחד نقف معًا), a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice. Orly Noy is the chair of B'Tselem, arguably Israel's most well-known human rights NGO, and editor of the Hebrew-language news magazine Local Call. Amjad Iraqi is a member of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, an editor and writer at +972 Magazine, and previously an advocacy coordinator at Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. In this wide-ranging conversation, the hosts and guests spoke about the current state of Israel's political landscape, from its ongoing "Smotrichization" to the political crackdowns, from the normalization of genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians to the necessity of being "chronically optimistic" to push for change in Israel-Palestine. At a time when Netanyahu and the Israeli far-right have effectively taken over politics, and with so many self-described liberals joining in the calls for violence, principled left-wing voices seem all but gone in Israel. Finally, each guest shares their personal theory of change, offering a glimpse into their vision for the future. These episodes are intended to be evergreen conversations. If you're interested in resources dedicated to real-time information, you can follow us on Instagram where we amplify voices on the ground in Palestine-Israel.
Today, we're cross posting "A Roundtable on Palestine-Israel" from our friends at The Fire These Times podcast as a bonus episode for listeners of The Response. The Fire These Times Co-hosts, Joey Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik are joined by Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach to think through this moment, process their grief together, and articulate alternative visions for both peoples. After listening to several inflammatory takes for the past month, this was exactly the conversation that we needed to be a fly on the wall for. We hope you learn or feel something new while listening as well. Resources: Medical Aid for Palestinians | Adalah | Al-Shabaka | Gisha | Hamleh | Hamoked | The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel | Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre (JLAC) | MIFTAH: The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy | Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) | Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P) | Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) | Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) Episode credits: Presented, hosted, and co-produced by Tom Llewellyn Edited by Robert Raymond Theme Music by Cultivate Beats Follow The Response on Twitter and Instagram for updates, memes, and more. Our entire catalog of documentaries and interviews can be found at theresponsepodcast.org — or wherever you get your podcasts. Want to help spread the word? Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify — it makes a huge difference in reaching new people who may otherwise not hear about this show. The Response is published by Shareable.
On October 7th, Hamas fighters breached the militarized fence separating the occupied Gaza strip from Israeli communities in the south, killing 1400 people and taking 200 hostages. Israel immediately retaliated with severe bombardment of the Gaza strip that, at the time of this writing, has killed 7000 people. In the West Bank, settler violence and army raids have also killed dozens of Palestinians, and Palestinian citizens of Israel as well as leftist Israelis have been arrested for speaking out. While the world is currently transfixed by what's happening in Israel-Palestine, this story did not begin on October 7th. Joey Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik are joined by Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach to think through this moment, process our grief together, and articulate alternative visions for both peoples. We focused on three themes: a) Grief, b) Thinking Through This Moment, c) What can be done? This will be the first of many episodes on post-October 7th Israel-Palestine. Dana El-Kurd is a researcher in political science, and an assistant professor at the University of Richmond. Works on state-society relations in the Arab world with topics like authoritarianism and international intervention. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and she is also the author of "Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine." A regular guest of TFTT, Dana has recently co-written an essay with Leila Al-Shami, Joey Ayoub and Romeo Kokriatski for the South/South Movement entitled "A view of anti-imperialism from the periphery." Orly Noy is an editor at Local Call, a Hebrew-language news site committed to democracy, peace, equality, social justice, transparency, freedom of information and resisting the occupation. She is also a political activist with the Balad political party, and a translator of Farsi poetry and prose. She is the chair of B'Tselem's executive board. Her writing deals with the lines that intersect and define her identity as Mizrahi, a female leftist, a woman, a temporary migrant living inside a perpetual immigrant, and the constant dialogue between them. She recently published a piece for 972Mag and Local Call entitled "Enough with the warlords. There is another way." Yair Wallach is a social and cultural historian of modern Palestine/Israel at SOAS, University of London, studying the entangled and relational histories of Jews and Palestinians. He is also the author of the 2020 book "A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem" and has most recently published in The New Statesman a piece entitled: "The deadly logic of the existential war: Warnings that the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict is heading towards genocide should be heeded." Support human rights workers in Palestine-Israel and the diaspora Medical Aid for Palestinians | Adalah | Al-Shabaka | Gisha | Hamleh | Hamoked | The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel | Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre (JLAC) | MIFTAH: The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy | Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) | Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P) | Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) | Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) You can follow The Fire These Times on: Website | Bluesky | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter | Substack Credits: Host: Daniel & Joey Producer: A.M. Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: A.M. Episode design: Joey Ayoub
Joey is joined by Leila Al-Shami, British-Syrian activist and co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, Romeo Kokriatski, Ukrainian-American managing editor of The New Voice of Ukraine and co-host of the Ukraine Without Hype podcast, and Dana El Kurd, Palestinian-American assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Richmond to talk about an essay the four of us wrote. The essay, "A view of anti-imperialism from the periphery," was published by the south/south movement as part of their south/south dialogues: Beyond the colonial vortex of the ‘West': Subverting non-western imperialisms before and after 24 February 2022. I recommend giving it a read before listening, but this is not necessary. You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. Mentions and Book Recommendations: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Too Like the Lightning Book I by Ada Palmer Commons journal, including the interviews with Joey Ayoub and Dana El Kurd Sumoud-Washing: A Queer-Feminist Analysis of the Syrian and Palestinian Struggle for Liberation by Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Razan Ghazzawi Contact You can follow The Fire These Times on: Website | Bluesky | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter | Substack You can follow Joey on: Website | Instagram | Bluesky | Mastodon, or reach out to him via email at contact@thefirethesetimes.com You can follow Leila on: Website | Twitter | Bluesky | Mastodon You can follow Romeo on: Twitter | Bluesky You can follow Dana on: Website | Bluesky | Twitter Credits: Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: Artin Salimi Episode design: Joey Ayoub
I'm joined again by friend of the pod Dana El Kurd, a Palestinian researcher who specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations. We talked about Nakba Day (May 15), about the importance of reflecting on the past while also trying to plan for the future, and how we can commemorate the Nakba by building bonds across nations and struggles. This is also the first episode released on a Tuesday! Episodes will from now on be released on Tuesdays and/or Thursday with the long-term goal being two episodes a week. To support this project, keep on reading! You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. Mentions and Book Recommendations: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism by Jelena Subotić Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices by Ella Shohat Credits: Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: Joey AyoubEpisode design: Joey Ayoub Pluggables: The best way to keep up to date is through the website thefirethesetimes.com or through patreon. I occasionally post on Mastodon and friends of the pod occasionally post on Twitter and Instagram. The newsletter will be available on www.thefirethesetimes.com and www.thefirethesetimes.substack.com as well.
In this episode, we speak with Dana and Diana about the recent special issue in MELG focusing on recentering society in the study of Palestinian politics. We discuss what the post-Oslo period looks like, how resistance is changing, and where research on Palestine could develop. You can check out the special issue we are discussing on the Brill website: https://brill.com/view/journals/melg/14/3/melg.14.issue-3.xml
My guest today is Dana El Kurd, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Richmond in Virginia, who works on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, state-society relations in these countries, and the impact of international intervention. In 2020, she published the book Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine with Oxford University Press. Today, we will speak about authoritarianism in the Arab world as well as Palestinian opposition to both Israeli occupation and Palestinian authoritarianism. You can follow Dana El Kurd on Twitter at @DanaElKurd.
The killing of the beloved Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html (shot by Israeli forces) while covering an IDF raid of occupied Jenin on May 11th, has sparked massive outcry in Palestine and widespread condemnation from the international community—as did the subsequent attack on her funeral procession by Israeli police. Though Abu Akleh, a veteran correspondent for Al Jazeera, was a singular figure, her death is only the latest reminder that Israel has routinely targeted journalists and civilians, sustaining its impunity through obfuscation in the media and the routine dehumanization of Palestinians. Jewish Currents fellow Dylan Saba speaks with political scientist Dana El Kurd and activist Fadi Quran about Israeli media strategy, shifting public opinion outside the region, and the discursive and strategic challenges faced by the Palestine solidarity movement. Topics Mentioned: “https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html (New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces)” - CNN “https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/9/30/behind-the-lens-remembering-muhammad-al-durrah (Behind the lens: Remembering Muhammad al-Durrah, 20 years on)” by Talal Abu Rahma “https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/on-this-day-stern-gang-assassinates-un-mediator-count-folke-bernadotte-in-1948-679649 (On This Day: Stern Gang assassinates UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte in 1948)” by Aaron Reich https://twitter.com/fadiquran/status/1524340592863584256?s=20&t=b8yHN-2Fggpgej95aHmfpw (Twitter thread) by Fadi Quran on the pattern of Israeli obfuscation following an attack “https://theintercept.com/2018/08/11/israel-palestine-drone-strike-operation-protective-edge/ (Secret Israeli Report Reveals Armed Drone Kills Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach in 2014)” by Robert Mackey https://twitter.com/noatishby/status/1526964029830340610?s=20&t=aXnivfKQBwJtDUkjwBY61A (Noa Tishby invoking antisemitism) regarding the response to Shireen's death Israeli military spokesperson saying the press is “https://www.timesofisrael.com/veteran-al-jazeera-journalist-shot-dead-during-israeli-raid-in-jenin/ (armed with cameras)” “https://jewishcurrents.org/you-cannot-unsee-this-image (You Cannot Unsee This Image),” an interview with Rashid Khalidi by Dylan Saba “https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/key-messages-from-the-oppressed/ (Key Messages from the Oppressed)” by Dana El Kurd
This is a conversation with Dana El-Kurd, her second time on the podcast. We spoke about a paper that she wrote entitled "Gateway to dissent: the role of pro-Palestine activism in opposition to authoritarianism." We primarily spoke about the role of pro-Palestine activism in pro-democracy movements in the Arab world (with examples from Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, the UAE and Saudi Arabia) and also about how pro-Palestine discourse is used to whitewash authoritarianism, especially in the West. Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi.Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes Recommended Books: عزمي بشارة - المجتمع المدني Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions) by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan Contested Modernity: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Bahrain by Omar Al-Shehabi
Life in Israel/Palestine is always characterized by a high level of violence; for instance, Israel's control of millions of stateless Palestinians in the West Bank who live without due process under military law is inherently violent. But recent weeks have seen a surge in violence: Palestinians from both the West Bank and Israel proper have attacked and in some cases killed Israeli civilians and soldiers, and Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers have attacked and in some cases killed Palestinian civilians. With the unusual confluence of the holidays of Ramadan, Easter, and Passover, many worry that the violence will grow, and even spiral into the kind of massive bloodshed that unfolded last spring. (Since this episode was recorded on April 13th, tensions have escalated further as Israeli police attacked worshipers at the Al-Aqsa mosque, and Israel bombed Gaza in response to a Hamas rocket.) On this episode, Editor-at-Large Peter Beinart speaks with political scientist Dana El Kurd and attorney Daniel Seidemann about why violence is rising now, shifting Palestinian public opinion on violent and nonviolent resistance, and what the coming weeks may bring. Books and Articles Mentioned: “https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4075395 (Support for Violent vs. Non-violent Strategies in the Palestinian Territories)” by Dana El Kurd (April 15th, 2022) “https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/key-messages-from-the-oppressed/ (Key Messages from the Oppressed)” by Dana El Kurd (April 6th, 2022) “https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-idf-mi-chief-palestinian-despair-among-reasons-for-terror-wave-1.5416577 (IDF Intelligence Chief: Palestinian Despair, Frustration Are Among Reasons for Terror Wave)” by Barak Ravid (November 3rd, 2015) “https://www.972mag.com/hamas-gaza-jerusalem-protests/ (Hamas Breaks Out of its Gaza Cage)” by Amjad Iraqi (May 21st, 202)1 “https://apnews.com/article/hamas-middle-east-science-32095d8e1323fc1cad819c34da08fd87 (Poll Finds Dramatic Rise in Palestinian Support for Hamas)” by Joseph Krauss (June 15th, 2021) “https://jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-nonviolent-resistance (The End of Nonviolent Resistance)” by Isaac Scher (April 12th, 2022) “https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-imposes-sanctions-on-jenin-the-west-bank-hometown-of-tel-aviv-terrorist-1.10731480 (Israel Imposes Sanctions on Jenin, the West Bank Hometown of Tel Aviv Terrorist)” by Yaniv Kubovich and Jack Khoury (April 9th 2022) “https://jewishcurrents.org/it-is-impossible-to-shrink-the-conflict (It is Impossible to ‘Shrink the Conflict)'” by Peter Beinart (November 11th, 2021) Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”
Today on Scope Conditions, we're speaking with Dr. Dana El Kurd, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Richmond, about her recent book, Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine. In this book, Dana seeks to unravel a puzzle of Palestinian political development. With the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1994, Palestinians gained the prospect of democratic self-government, with the establishment of an elected Palestinian National Authority and a process intended to culminate in the creation of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian people entered Oslo with a highly mobilized and well-organized civil society — conditions that should, in theory, have set the stage for vibrant civic engagement and the development of responsive institutions. What Dana observes, however, in the period after Oslo is just the opposite. Not only did Palestinian institutions evolve in an increasingly authoritarian direction, but Palestinian society ended up far less mobilized and much more polarized than it had been under direct Israeli rule. “How,” Dana asks in her new book, “did the [Palestinian Authority] demobilize society, when years of Israeli occupation had failed to do the same thing?” Her argument is that international interference distorted the process of political development, leading the PA to practice a form of “indigenous” autocracy that proved highly effective at dis-organizing and deactivating civil society. We hear about how Dana brought together interviews with Palestinian officials, protest data, survey experiments and lab experiments to trace out the dynamics of demobilization. We also ask her to reflect on how her argument travels: Does international involvement generally serve to undercut democracy? Is political polarization always demobilizing? Lastly, Dana reflects on her experiences as a Palestinian researcher studying Palestine: both the access that her identity gives her in the field and the ways in which her work is challenged due to her identity.
In this episode of the New Lines Institute's Contours podcast series, widely respected academic Dr. Dana El Kurd sits down with Rasha Al Aqeedi and Nicholas Heras to discuss her groundbreaking research on an emerging generation of Palestinian civil society and political activists. Dr. El Kurd provides a deep dive on her innovative work on the ground in Palestine, her assessment on what the future might hold for Palestinian activism, and whether there is way forward for the Palestinian people to achieve their human dignity in the face of oppression from both the Palestinian Authority and Israel. She is the author of the highly regarded two-part New Lines Institute series on this subject, “The Strengthening of Palestinian Civil Society Activism.”
Robert is joined by Dana El Kurd to continue to discuss the Netanyahu Family. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Robert is joined by Dana El Kurd to discuss the Netanyahu Family, Zionism and Palestine. FOOTNOTES: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18008697net https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-quot-bibi-quot-netanyahu https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/opinion/incitement-movie.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/assassination-yitzhak-rabin-never-knew-his-people-shot-him-in-back https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-22-mn-431-story.html https://www.ampalestine.org/palestine-101/history/intifadas/first-intifada-historical-overview https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171209-remembering-the-first-intifada-2/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/12/world/middleeast/netanyahu-west-bank-settlements-israel-election.html https://apnews.com/article/fef216bbfc30edfe50c910521fad6e3d https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/2020-occupied-territories-heinous-killings-settler-violence https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/who-is-benjamin-netanyahu-580010 https://www.history.com/news/gaza-conflict-history-israel-palestine https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2018/05/10/mowing-the-grass-and-the-force-casualty-tradeoff/ https://www.ampalestine.org/palestine-101/history/intifadas/second-intifada-introduction https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/220/378 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-pale-of-settlement https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-is-nakba-palestine-israel-conflict-explained-1948 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/5/19/nakba-survivors-share-their-stories-of-loss-and-hope https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Is it worthwhile to focus our organizing on moving Jewish American public opinion on Israel/Palestine? How effective is it really in shifting the dynamics on the ground? Jewish Currents staff members discuss these questions. Then, starting at 33:58, we discuss one of the main questions we've received in the last week: How do I talk to my family about what's happening? We recount personal victories and failures, and explore how people actually change their mind. Reading & Resources Mentioned in "In This Moment & Tough Conversations" https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jewishcurrents.org/are-95-of-jews-really-zionists/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503339000&usg=AOvVaw1tVPXBwTUOjTvI4RtHNb_5 (Are 95% of Jews Really Zionists?) by Caroline Morganti https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pewforum.org/2021/05/11/jewish-americans-in-2020/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503339000&usg=AOvVaw0Icz1KiDiXTo7CqOm_mZmG (Jewish Americans in 2020 (Pew Study)) https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jewishcurrents.org/teshuvah-a-jewish-case-for-palestinian-refugee-return/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503340000&usg=AOvVaw3l2aZxHfeJUvPxIhIgWdyw (Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return) by Peter Beinart https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.972mag.com/us-media-palestinians/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503340000&usg=AOvVaw1AmacRMQOBwnMfuXmAwmTt (US media talks a lot about Palestinians — just without Palestinians) by Maha Nassar https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jewishcurrents.org/how-not-to-fight-antisemitism/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503341000&usg=AOvVaw3wkHpodAHR-hNF_txRJHrq (Responsa - How Not to Fight Antisemitism) by Jewish Currents editors https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jewishcurrents.org/a-guide-to-the-current-crisis-in-israel-palestine/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503341000&usg=AOvVaw3vFDginQe7477fyWuHgV2E (A Guide to the Current Crisis in Israel/Palestine) by Mari Cohen, Joshua Leifer, Alex Kane https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jewishcurrents.org/the-palestinian-cause-at-a-moment-of-transition/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503342000&usg=AOvVaw23geVYahAdcdTcoZphnW2D (The Palestinian Cause at a Moment of Transition), a conversation between Inès Abdel Razek, Salem Barahmeh, Dana El Kurd, and Fadi Quran Books Mentioned in "In This Moment & Tough Conversations" https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bookshop.org/a/1530/9780201327984&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503343000&usg=AOvVaw1sM041zxthymwyIk49aCWM (Jewish Power) by JJ Goldberg https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bookshop.org/a/1530/9781541453500&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1624659503343000&usg=AOvVaw2-YjVmIelJTfW5qiGbqnUj (Where the Jews Aren't) by Masha Gessen Thanks to Santiago Helou Quintero for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song "VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed)." Transcript will be available soon.
This is a conversation with Dana El Kurd. She is a Palestinian academic who specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations. Dana works as a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and as an assistant professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. We spoke about her most recent book “Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine” published by Hurst. Topics Discussed Authoritarianism within the Palestinian Authority (PA) The role of the US The legacy of the Oslo Accords The Arab Spring and their link to Palestine How long-term authoritarianism impacts societies Polarization and Demobilization since Oslo The relationship between the Israeli occupation and the PA The 2006 Elections The difference between PA, PNA, PLO and Fatah On NGOization The Abraham Accords Tankie rhetoric How regional authoritarians (Hezbollah, Assad, Iran) are perceived in Palestine Different generational shifts Reforming the PLO Recommended Books How Social Movements Die: Repression and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa by Christian Davenport State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein by Lisa Blaydes Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter by Zohra Drif And I mentioned: A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia
Podcast host Yousef Munayyer and guest Dana El-Kurd unpack the UAE-Israel deal and discuss the prospect of Arab states normalizing relations with Tel Aviv. El-Kurd is an assistant professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.
Significant historic threats have befallen the Palestinian people this year, including the Trump administration's “Deal of the Century” and Israel's current push to formally annex parts of the occupied territories. But it is still unclear how Palestinians plan to confront these events, both on the leadership and grassroots levels.For example, why have there been no mass protests akin to the intifadas of 1987 or 2000? Why has the Palestinian leadership not put forward a new political strategy to face these threats? What is preventing Palestinians from breaking the so-called “status quo” designed to suppress them?On the latest episode of The +972 Podcast, Dana El Kurd, an assistant professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, answers these questions and more. El Kurd is the author of “Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine,” a book that examines how the Palestinian Authority, which was created under the Oslo Accords in 1993, repressed and diluted political activity in the occupied territories.Visit +972 Magazine and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.Support +972 Magazine: 972mag.com/donateThe music in this episode is by Ketsa and Unheard Music Concepts.Support the show
What demobilizes a once mobilized society? How does international involvement amplify or suppress these dynamics? In Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine (Oxford University Press, 2020), Dana El Kurd's new book uses a case study to interrogate how the Palestinian Authority – as an indigenous institution – more successfully demobilized Palestinian society than Israeli occupiers. Despite Israel's greater resources and international backing, the Palestinian Authority, paradoxically, was able to accomplish what the Israelis could not: the polarization and demobilization of the Palestinian population. The Palestinian Authority (PA) -- insulated from domestic constituents and consumed with addressing international pressures rather than negotiating with Palestinian society – strengthened authoritarian practices. The use of authoritarianism polarized the public over both international involvement and the practice of authoritarianism. El Kurd's rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing – and that polarization negatively affected mobilization and the capacity for collective action. El Kurd uses a mix of survey data, interviews, and field research to demonstrate how international involvement results in insulation that may increase authoritarianism. She not only provides a nuanced look at the Palestinian Authority but applies her findings to Iraqi Kurdistan and Bahrain in one of the concluding chapters. The podcast concludes with incisive comments about how the Trump administration's disengagement may ironically open opportunities for rebuilding the capacity for Palestinian collective action. Susan Liebell is associate professor of political science at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Democracy, Intelligent Design, and Evolution: Science for Citizenship (Routledge, 2013).
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