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The Fire These Times — 264 episodes
218/ Solarpunk Panel 2026 w/ Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon & Andre
217/ Israel Bombed My Hometown - And I Worry About a Civil War (Monologue)
216/ Voices from Lebanon w/ Lina Mounzer & Justin Salhani
215/ Israel's Wars Won't Be Contained (Monologue)
214/ Lebanon Haunts the World (Monologue)
213/ The War on Iran (Monologue)
212/ Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation
211/ Organizing Against ICE w/ Nicole Bedera, Ed & Aydin
210/ Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson
209/ Burnout, Grief and The Solidarity Apothecary w/ Nicole Rose
The First Masterclass is Here! (Jan/Feb 2026)
208/ What Mamdani's Victory Means w/ Dana El Kurd
207/ Malcolm X and Our Modern Struggle w/ The Dugout and Mohamed Abdou
206/ The Limits of Palestinian-ness w/ Pablo Abufom
205/ Warsaw Ghetto, Gaza Ghetto
204/ The Kashmir Question: What Comes Next w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes
203/ The Kashmir Question: Resistance w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes
202/ The Kashmir Question: Origins w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes
201/ This Cannot Be The New Normal
200/ The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor
199/ The Stories That Fascism Fears Most w/ Jessie Gender (Special Crossover w/ Resistance is Fertile)
198/ A Liquid Convo About Venezuela w/ Laura Vidal
197/ Our Region After Samir Kassir: Special 20 Years Commemoration w/ Ziad Majed
196/ The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid (Part 2)
195/ The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid (Part 1)
194/ Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg (Part 2)
193/ Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg (Part 1)
192/ Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration (Part 2)
192/ Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration (Part 1)
Introducing "Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution"
191/ We Are the Children of the Children of War w/ Justin Salhani
190/ What Trump Sees in Bukele w/ Michael Paarlberg
189/ Doikayt ('Hereness') Now! w/ Molly Crabapple
188/ Revolutionary Aid in Sudan w/ Eiad Husham
Announcement - Lebanese Films Screenings
Hauntologies 5/ Restorative vs Reflective Nostalgia
187/ Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 2
186/ Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 1
185/ What Ukraine Faces w/ Romeo Kokriatski
184/ Öcalan's Statement and the Future of the PKK w/ Dîlan
TFTT x Obscuristan: Navalny, A Year Later
Black History Month Special: Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson
Hauntologies 4/ Punishing the Land
Hauntologies 3/ Lebanon's Lost Communist Future
Video Essay Announcement
Hauntologies 2/ This Moment. Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza
183/ Making Home in Exile: Stories from the New Syrian Diaspora w/ Wendy Pearlman
182/ Our Mirror Worlds w/ Naomi Klein
Hauntologies 1/ Merry Christmas Homs
181/ Don't Despair, We Got This w/ Margaret Killjoy
180/ The Golan Heights, Syria and Palestine’s Intertwined Liberations w/ Banah Ghadbian
179/ Lebanon: What Now? w/ Mohamad Bazzi
178/ Roundtable on Syria
177/ Mutual Aid in Lebanon Today w/ Serge and Abir
Rerun/ Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri
176/ American Neocons, Christian Zionists & Israeli Fascism w/ Atalia Omer
The Mutual Aid Podcast: Ep #1 - Introductions
175/ Beekeeping in the End Times w/ Larisa Jašarević
174/ Lebanon From 1860 to the Present Day w/ Ayman Makarem
173/ This Arab is Queer w/Elias Jahshan, israa' and Leila Al Shami
Premium Episode 2: Hezbollah (Sample)
172/ The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory w/ Daniel Voskoboynik
171/ What is Happening with Balochistan? w/ Lateef Johar Baloch and Hari Prasad
170/ Facing the German Far Right w/ Musa Okwonga
169/Macronisme and the Far Right w/ Sahar Amarir & Rim-Sarah Alouane
Against Multipolar Imperialism w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski (Rerun)
168/ Building Transnational Solidarity w/ Chkoun? Collective and Leila Al Shami
167/ Netanyahu's Dubaization Plan for Gaza After the Genocide w/ Yasser Elsheshtawy
166/ Israel-Palestine After Zionism w/ Ahmed Moor, Antony Loewenstein and Dana El Kurd
165/ That One Time the Olympics Were Cool w/ James Stout
164/ El Salvador's Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg
163/ The Far Right is Not Inevitable w/ Aurelien Mondon
TFTT Archives: Hamed Sinno on Sarah Hegazi, Mental Health and Growing up Queer in Lebanon
162/ Spaces of Exception and the Struggle for Native American and Palestinian Autonomy
161/ The Gaza Genocide Changes Everything
160/ Raising a Brown Child in a Time of Genocide w/ Nikesh Shukla
159/ Building Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity w/ Yuliia Kishchuk
158/ The Threat of Christian Fascism in Lebanon w/ Justin Salhani
157/ Taking Authoritarianism Seriously w/ Bill Fletcher Jr
156/Obscuristan: Navalny from the Periphery w/ Anna, Karena & Daniel
Politically Depressed Eps. 9-12
155/ The '82 Israeli Siege of Beirut: Similarities and Differences with Gaza Today w/ Justin Salhani
154/ Anti-Imperialism After the Syrian Revolution w/ Sahar Amarir
153/ Living Like the World is Dying w/ Margaret Killjoy
152/ Israel and American Jewish Dissent w/ Geoffrey Levin
Politically Depressed Eps. 5-8
151/ Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors w/ Tory Stephens and Daniel Voskoboynik
150/ The Israeli War on Southern Lebanon w/ Karim Safieddine, Michelle Eid & Justin Salhani
Politically Depressed - First 4 Episodes
149/ How Azerbaijan is Greenwashing Genocide w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna
148/ Understanding Seen and Unseen Violence in Israel-Palestine w/ Diana Greenwald & Alexei Abrahams
147/ From Capitalism Realism to Solarpunk Realities w/ HydroponicTrash, Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon
Palestine and Global Solidarity - Remastered w/ Sumaya Awad and Shireen Akram-Boshar
146/ Jewish Safety Means Palestinian Liberation: Organizing In Israel-Palestine After Oct 7 w/ Sally Abed, Orly Noy and Amjad Iraqi
145/ Arab Jews For Palestinian Liberation w/ Hadar Cohen and Dahab Kashi
Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives - Remastered
144/ Against the Imperialist Impulse w/ Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Special Episode: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine w/ Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach
143/ Sudan in Revolution and War w/ Dalia Abdelmoniem and Raga Makawi
142/ How the World Failed Nagorno-Karabakh w/ Karena Avedissian & Anna
141/ How the EU Criminalizes Solidarity with Migrants w/ Border Violence Monitoring Network
140/ The Moral Urgency of Degrowth w/ Timothée Parrique & Yusra Bitar
139/ Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery w/ Leila Al Shami, Romeo Kokriatski & Dana El Kurd
138/ We Need To Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani
Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon Special Fundraising!
137/ Re-membering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd
136/ When War Gets Normalized, Or What's At Stake in Ukraine w/ Mariam Naiem and Romeo Kokriatski
135/ Radical Legacies of the Mexican Revolution w/ Christina Heatherton and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
Unlocked. When You're Not The Target Audience: Two Arab Millennials Talk About Seinfeld w/ Ayman Makarem (Premium 1)
134/ Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel
133/ Overcoming the Trauma of Caste w/ Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rhythima Shinde and Vivek Ramachandran
132/ Let's Talk About Youth Autonomy w/ carla joy bergman
131/ Commoning in Lebanon's Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri
130/ Armenian-ness and Solidarity in a Changing World w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna
129/ The Meaning of Time in Prison w/ Morgan Godvin and Molly Hagan
128/ The Islamic Regime of Iran Will Fall w/ Vicky and Kiana
127/ Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski
Premium Episode 1: Watching Seinfeld as Arab Millennials w/ Ayman Makarem (Sample)
126/ The Memory We Could Be: Fear and Our Ecological Future w/ Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
125/ Understanding (Anti-)Fascism in a World in Crisis w/ Shane Burley
124/ Jessie Gender on how Star Trek deals with neurodiversity, race, and queerness
123/ Hauntings, Futurisms and the Present Movement w/ Luka Dowell aka Solarpunk Now!
122/ In Search of Afro-Solarpunk w/ Rob Cameron
121/ Solarpunk and Post-Capitalist Desires w/ HydroponicTrash
Special: How to Make Football Radical, a 2022 FIFA World Cup Retrospective w/ Musa Okwonga, Justin Salhani and Fabien Goa
120/ Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War w/ Mariam Naiem & Romeo Kokriatski
119/ Lessons on the Path to Radicalization w/ Andrew Sage & Emmi Bevensee
118/ Bosnia, False Histories and Fact-Free Politics w/ Edin Hajdarpašić
117/ The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung
116/ Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction w/ Andrew Dana Hudson
115/ Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route w/ Sally Hayden
114/ Why Nostalgia in the Periphery Feels Different w/ Efe Levent x Mangal Media
113/ Taiwan's Wen Liu & Brian Hioe on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen
112/ From Yarmouk to the World: On Syria, Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nidal Betare
111/ What is Happening in Tigray? w/ Teklehaymanot Weldemichel
Special: On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse w/ Michael J. DeLuca
110/ Climate Narratives that Go Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Alyssa Hull
109/ The Link Between Pro-Palestine Activism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World w/ Dana El-Kurd
108/ What Asexuality Says About Society w/ Angela Chen
107/ Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson
🌻 Ukraine Special: 3. The threads that bind us from Syria to Ukraine
106/ Football is Political: #Qatar2022, Russia and What Comes Next w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani
105/ What 'Living With Covid' Actually Means w/ Martin Paul Eve
104/ The Urgency of the IPCC Report w/ Dr Rupa Mukerji and Dr Lisa Schipper
🌻 Ukraine Special: 2. From Ukraine, with Love (and Anger) w/ Romeo Kokriatski
103/ The Periphery and Aimé Césaire's Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution w/ Fadi Bardawil
ARCHIVE: the Legacy of Chemical Weapons from Halabja to Ghouta w/ Sabrîna Azad
102/ On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body w/ Amro Ali
🌻 Ukraine Special: 1. A View From Syria w/ Leila Al-Shami
101/ Mending the World: A Jewish-Arab Diaspora Conversation w/ Cindy Milstein
100/ The Story of Three Black Mothers: Louise Little, Berdis Baldwin and Albert King w/ Anna Malaika Tubbs
ARCHIVE: Disinformation, Russia and Syrian-Ukrainian Solidarity w/ Peter Pomerantsev
99/ Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies w/ Marie Berry and Milli Lake
Crossover: The Strange Amnesia of Lebanon's Wars w/ New Lines
98/ Space, Nostalgia and Retro-Futurism in Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nat Muller
97/ Why I Stopped Writing About Syria w/ Asser Khattab
96/ The Arab Spring Diaspora Against Transnational Repression w/ Dana Moss
95/ Untellable Stories, Reproductive Justice & Complicating Acts of Advocacy w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam
94/ The Political Economy of Solarpunk w/ Andrew Dana Hudson
It Could Happen Here: On The New Periphery
Mangal Media: Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable
Voice Messages From The Balkan Route
93/ Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights (with Shareah Taleghani)
92/ Big Tech, Gatopardismo and Data Colonialism (With Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon)
91/ Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use (With Jefim Vogel & Julia Steinberger)
90/ The Ecological Paradox of Digital Economies (with Paz Peña)
89/ Tiananmen, Denialism and History (With Mia Wong)
88/ A History of Nothing (With Susan A. Crane)
87/ Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Back our World (With Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer)
86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)
I read the names of the Beirut port explosion victims
August 4th 2020: "It Sounded Like The World Itself Was Breaking Open" (With Lina Mounzer)
85/ The Legacy of the Great Lebanon Famine (with Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari)
84/ Space, Fiction and Growing Up in ‘Postwar’ Lebanon (with Naji Bakhti)
83/ Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives (with Tareq Baconi)
82/ The Populist Hype, ‘the People’ and the Far Right (With Aurelien Mondon)
81/ Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future (With Phoebe Wagner)
80/ Syria, State Ideology and Climate Politics (With Marwa Daoudy)
79/ Erasures, Borders and the Afterlife of the Armenian Genocide (with Sophia Armen)
78/ Pedagogies of Liberation, Gender and the Syrian Revolution (with Banah Ghadbian)
77/ From Hong Kong to Lebanon, Basebuilding Against Authoritarianism (with Promise Li)
76/ Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives (with Daniel Randall)
75/ The Precariatized Mind and the Case for a Basic Income for All (with Guy Standing)
Special Episode: Palestine and Global Solidarity
Intervention: Majed Abusalama #GazaUnderAttack
[Repost]: Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse
Special Episode: A Conversation on Israel-Palestine, (Anti)Zionism and International Solidarity
74/ The Political Economy of Car Dependence: Understanding Systems of Provision (with Giulio Mattioli & Julia Steinberger)
73/ 1958: Re-imagining a Revolutionary Year in Revolutionary Times (with Jeffrey Karam)
72/ The Inherent Toxicity of France’s ‘Islamo-Leftism’ Obsession (with Rim-Sarah Alouane)
71/ Bearing Witness to What is Lost: Lebanon’s ‘Postwar’ Hauntings (with Ely Dagher)
70/ (Post)Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (With Nader Hashemi & Danny Postel)
69/ The Entrenched “Manliness” of Ethnic Power-sharing Peace Agreements (with Aida A. Hozić)
68/ Solarpunk, Youth Liberation and Why Revolution Needs Therapy (with Saint Andrew)
67/ Cultural Dementia: How the West Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else (with David Andress)
Intervention: Anti-Fascist Solidarity in Lyon (English/Français)
66/ Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine (with Dana El Kurd)
#StopAsianHate [Repost] Sex Workers' Rights, Basebuilding and Mutual Aid (with Kate Zen)
65/Shifting Towards Climate-Just Mobility (with Anne Kretzschmar)
64/In the End, It Was All About Love (with Musa Okwonga)
63/Queerness, Literature and Revolution (With Saleem Haddad)
62/ How to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C: A Societal Transformation Scenario (with Kai Kuhnhenn and Linda Schneider)
61/ A Class Analysis of the Arab Spring (with Anand Gopal)
60/(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 2 (with Emmi Bevensee)
59/(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 1 (with Emmi Bevensee)
58/ Democracy, Counterrevolution and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism (with Rohini Hensman)
57/The Psychology of Silicon Valley (with Katy Cook)
56/A Region in Revolt: The Uprisings in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran (Book Launch)
55/Lessons from Workers' Resistance in China (with Zhongjin Li & Eli Friedman)
54/What Management Theory Can Learn From Anarchism (With Martin Parker & Thomas Swann)
53/Masculinity in Pop Culture: The Toxic and the Subversive (With Jonathan McIntosh)
52/The Palestinian Left and Its Decline (with Francesco Saverio Leopardi)
51/The Case for People-centered Recovery Processes in Beirut (with Mona Harb)
Reflections on the first 50 episodes and upcoming projects
50/Golden Dawn: The Anatomy of a Nazi Party in 21st Century Europe (with Loukas Stamellos)
49/The Moria Camp and Fortress Europe's Deadly Xenophobia (with Ghias Al Jundi)
48/Our Climate Emergency Present (with Peter Kalmus)
47/Evaporated Euphoria: the Current Crises in Lebanon (with Lara Bitar)
46/Hong Kong, Disappearances and the Emotional Cost of Disinformation (with Shui-yin Sharon Yam)
45/Ethiopian Migrants' Saudi Hell/Ethiopia's Anti-Government Protests (with Zecharias Zelalem)
44/That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Growing Up Queer in Lebanon (with Hamed Sinno)
43/ The World's Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide is Happening in Xinjiang (with Rayhan Asat and Yonah Diamond)
42/"It Sounded Like The World Itself Was Breaking Open": The Beirut Explosion (with Lina Mounzer)
41/Rendering Our Struggles Visible: Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter and Syria (with Mariam Barghouti)
40/We Exist: Queer Transnational Activism in the Middle East and Beyond (with "The Queer Arabs")
39/Basebuilding, Sex Workers’ Rights and Mutual Aid (with Kate Zen)
38/My Father and Syria's Forcibly Disappeared (with Wafa Mustafa)
37/The Racialisation of Migrant Labor Under the Kafala System in Lebanon (with Daryn Howland)
36/Lebanon’s Deep Crisis Explained (with Timour Azhari)
35/The European Union's Violence Against Asylum Seekers (with Jack Sapoch)
34/Remembering Through Storytelling in Times of Hardship in Lebanon (with Ronnie Chatah)
33/Mutual Aid is Sweeping the World (with Zoe Smith)
32/Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse (with Mohammed Sulaiman)
31/Disinformation, 'Post-truth' and What To Do About Them (with Peter Pomerantsev)
Intervention: Ghanaian woman on surviving slavery in Lebanon. #AbolishKafala
30/Poetry, Tripoli and Navigating the Moment (with Zeina Hashem Beck)
Intervention: Saleem Haddad on the death of Sarah Hegazy
29/Gender, Representation and the Role of Women Journalists in Syria (with Rula Asad)
28/Who Owns This World? Grief, Borders and Music [Correct Version] (with Yousef Kekhia)
27/The Risks of Psychologising Patriarchal Oppression (with Chuck Derry)
26/The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On (with Ziad Majed)
Intervention: Street Action #BlackLivesMatter
25/Resistance, Rescue and Waging Non-Violence (with Bryan Farell)
24/Bellingcat: Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World (with Eliot Higgins)
22/Building Mutual Aid in Lebanon (with Ayman Makarem)
21/Taiwan Since the 2014 Sunflower Movement (with Brian Hioe)
20/On Primo Levi, the Lebanese Revolution and Life in the Midst of History (with Lina Mounzer)
19/Our Women on the Ground (with Zahra Hankir)
18/Guapa, Marco and living Fernando Pessoa’s dreamlife in Lisbon (with Saleem Haddad)
17/What the Lebanese should know about Ethiopia (with Zecharias Zelalem)
16/The second wave of the Lebanon protests (with Nadim El Kak)
15/The legacy of Yiddish Bundism (with Molly Crabapple)
14/Revolution, disenchantment and the Lebanese New Left (with Fadi Bardawil)
13/Being the good immigrant in an ungrateful country (with Musa Okwonga)
12/Independent media versus the Lebanese oligarchy (with Julia Choucair Vizoso)
10/Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference (with Kareem Shaheen)
8/Lebanon’s October Uprising, Six Months Later (with Timour Azhari)
7/Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta (with Sabrîna Azad)
6/Lebanon's October 17 Revolution/ A Country in Fragments (with Andrew Arsan)
5/Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers: Between the Coronavirus and Slavery (with Banchi Yimer)
4/ Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too w/ with Crimethinc
3/ Venezuela and the Right to Narrate w/ Laura Vidal
2/ Lebanon Must Abolish The Kafala System w/ Mesewat and ARM (at Beirut's Migrant Community Center)
1/ Why Hong Kong's Protests Last w/ JP from Lausan Collective