011 ~ Mohamed Abdou on Islam, anarchism, & decolonial revolution

In this episode, Mohamed Abdou and I talk about many things including his recent article for ROAR magazine: https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/ As well as his forthcoming book with Pluto Press, which is titled Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Anarchism-Relationships-Mohamed-Abdou/dp/0745341926 Mohamed Abdou's full bio: Mohamed Abdou is a former Adjunct Professor of Arab-North African, Islamic, and radical newest social movements at Queen's University. He is currently teaching a course on Indigenous Land Education and Black Geographies at the University of Toronto-SJE-OISE and completed his transnational and interdisciplinary ethnographic and historical-archival Ph.D. on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity, Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in the Contemporary, that is set in both post-revolutionary Egypt and Turtle Island. He is a self-identifying non-ideological Muslim anarchist activist-scholar and diasporic settler of color, originally from Egypt, living on unceded Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory. He is author of the forthcoming book Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances (Pluto Press, May 2021). His twenty years of ‘newest social movement’ activist research and experience centres on Palestinian, Indigenous, Black, and people of colour liberation, and draws on his experiences with the Mohawks of Tyendinaga, the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, and participation in the Egyptian uprisings of 2011.