IN SESSION #3: Lebanon and the continued struggle for land and life in the South

I was joined by Lebanese comrades Rami Zureik and Munira Khayyat, both of whom are from the South, and work and think about land-based struggle and healing. We will discuss the current political landscape of Lebanon, with focus on the South; unpack the many atrocities the Zionist state has perpetrated even after the so-called "ceasefire", and importantly to Psychic Militancy, the ways people continue to create life and resist occupation.  Rami Zurayk is a native of Jabal Amel in South Lebanon, a farmer and a Researcher in Ecosystem Management. He has written extensively in Arabic, English and French about the political ecology of the Arab World, with special emphasis on Lebanon and Palestine.  Munira Khayyat is an anthropologist whose research revolves around life in war, intimate genealogies of empire, and theory from the South. Her first book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (University of California Press 2022) examines resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon's southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living. Check out some of Munira's work here (including a piece by our other guest, Rami!): https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/series/another-season-of-war-in-lebanon And here in this stunning e-publication: https://freight.cargo.site/m/Y2744105737271792238767236430700/Dignified_Life_Outliving_Impossible_Ecologies_LOWRES.pdf And here she is on Speaking out of Place, right after the Zionist aggression began on Lebanon in Fall 2024: https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/10/12/an-urgent-episode-on-lebanon-with-munira-khayyat-a-landscape-of-war-ecologies-of-resistance-and-survival-in-south-lebanon/ Don't forget to subscribe to the channel and follow us on IG at: @psychicmilitancypod & TikTok @psychic.militancy For exclusive audio and video releases, make sure to become a Patron at: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy