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The Fire These Times — 271 episodes
Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)
Reclaiming Land in Casiavera w/ David E. Gilbert (E223)
James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic w/ John Drabinksi (E222)
November Lebanon Class: Registration Open
Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Waubgeshig Rice (E221)
The Ceuta 'Incident' w/ Ayman Makarem (E220)
Cosmic Dream Boogie w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (E219)
Solarpunk Panel 2026 w/ Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon & Andre (E218)
Israel Bombed My Hometown - And I Worry About a Civil War (E217)
Voices from Lebanon w/ Lina Mounzer & Justin Salhani (E216)
Israel's Wars Won't Be Contained (E215)
Lebanon Haunts the World (E214)
The War on Iran (E213)
Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation (E212)
Organizing Against ICE w/ Nicole Bedera, Ed & Aydin (211)
Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson (210)
Burnout, Grief and The Solidarity Apothecary w/ Nicole Rose (209)
The First Masterclass is Here! (Jan/Feb 2026)
What Mamdani's Victory Means w/ Dana El Kurd (E208)
Malcolm X and Our Modern Struggle w/ The Dugout and Mohamed Abdou (E207)
The Limits of Palestinian-ness w/ Pablo Abufom (E206)
Warsaw Ghetto, Gaza Ghetto w/ Daniel Voskoboynik (E205)
The Kashmir Question: What Comes Next w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes (E204)
The Kashmir Question: Resistance w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes (E203)
The Kashmir Question: Origins w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes (E202)
This Cannot Be The New Normal (E201)
The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor (200)
The Stories That Fascism Fears Most w/ Jessie Gender (E199)
A Liquid Convo About Venezuela w/ Laura Vidal (E198)
Our Region After Samir Kassir: Special 20 Years Commemoration w/ Ziad Majed (E197)
The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid, Part 2 (E196)
The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid, Part 1 (E195)
Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg, Part 2 (E194)
Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg, Part 1 (E193)
Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration, Part 2 (192)
Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration, Part 1 (192)
Introducing "Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution"
We Are the Children of the Children of War w/ Justin Salhani (E191)
What Trump Sees in Bukele w/ Michael Paarlberg (E190)
Doikayt ('Hereness') Now! w/ Molly Crabapple (E189)
Revolutionary Aid in Sudan w/ Eiad Husham (E188)
Announcement - Lebanese Films Screenings
Hauntologies 5/ Restorative vs Reflective Nostalgia
Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 2 (E187)
Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 1 (E186)
What Ukraine Faces w/ Romeo Kokriatski (E185)
Öcalan's Statement and the Future of the PKK w/ Dîlan (E184)
Navalny, A Year Later (TFTT x Obscuristan)
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
Making Home in Exile: Stories from the New Syrian Diaspora w/ Wendy Pearlman (E183)
Our Mirror Worlds w/ Naomi Klein (E182)
Hauntologies 1/ Merry Christmas Homs
Don't Despair, We Got This w/ Margaret Killjoy (E181)
The Golan Heights, Syria and Palestine’s Intertwined Liberations w/ Banah Ghadbian (E180)
Lebanon: What Now? w/ Mohamad Bazzi (E179)
Roundtable on Syria (E178)
Mutual Aid in Lebanon Today w/ Serge and Abir (E177)
Rerun/ Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri
American Neocons, Christian Zionists & Israeli Fascism w/ Atalia Omer (E176)
The Mutual Aid Podcast: Ep #1 - Introductions
Beekeeping in the End Times w/ Larisa Jašarević (E175)
Lebanon From 1860 to the Present Day w/ Ayman Makarem (E174)
This Arab is Queer w/Elias Jahshan, israa' and Leila Al Shami (E173)
Premium Episode 2: Hezbollah (Sample)
The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory w/ Daniel Voskoboynik (E172)
What is Happening with Balochistan? w/ Lateef Johar Baloch and Hari Prasad (E171)
Facing the German Far Right w/ Musa Okwonga (E170)
Macronisme and the Far Right w/ Sahar Amarir & Rim-Sarah Alouane (E169)
Against Multipolar Imperialism w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski (Rerun)
Building Transnational Solidarity w/ Chkoun? Collective and Leila Al Shami (E168)
Netanyahu's Dubaization Plan for Gaza After the Genocide w/ Yasser Elsheshtawy (E167)
Israel-Palestine After Zionism w/ Ahmed Moor, Antony Loewenstein and Dana El Kurd (E166)
That One Time the Olympics Were Cool w/ James Stout (E165)
El Salvador's Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg (E164)
The Far Right is Not Inevitable w/ Aurelien Mondon (E163)
TFTT Archives: Hamed Sinno on Sarah Hegazi, Mental Health and Growing up Queer in Lebanon
Spaces of Exception and the Struggle for Native American and Palestinian Autonomy (E162)
The Gaza Genocide Changes Everything (E161)
Raising a Brown Child in a Time of Genocide w/ Nikesh Shukla (E160)
Building Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity w/ Yuliia Kishchuk (E159)
The Threat of Christian Fascism in Lebanon w/ Justin Salhani (E158)
Taking Authoritarianism Seriously w/ Bill Fletcher Jr (E157)
Navalny from the Periphery w/ Anna, Karena & Daniel (E156)
Politically Depressed Eps. 9-12
The '82 Israeli Siege of Beirut: Similarities and Differences with Gaza Today w/ Justin Salhani (E155)
Anti-Imperialism After the Syrian Revolution w/ Sahar Amarir (E154)
Living Like the World is Dying w/ Margaret Killjoy (E153)
Israel and American Jewish Dissent w/ Geoffrey Levin (E152)
Politically Depressed Eps. 5-8
Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors w/ Tory Stephens and Daniel Voskoboynik (E151)
The Israeli War on Southern Lebanon w/ Karim Safieddine, Michelle Eid & Justin Salhani (E150)
Politically Depressed - First 4 Episodes
How Azerbaijan is Greenwashing Genocide w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna (E149)
Understanding Seen and Unseen Violence in Israel-Palestine w/ Diana Greenwald & Alexei Abrahams (E148)
From Capitalism Realism to Solarpunk Realities w/ HydroponicTrash, Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon (E147)
Palestine and Global Solidarity - Remastered w/ Sumaya Awad and Shireen Akram-Boshar
Jewish Safety Means Palestinian Liberation: Organizing In Israel-Palestine After Oct 7 w/ Sally Abed, Orly Noy and Amjad Iraqi (E146)
Arab Jews For Palestinian Liberation w/ Hadar Cohen and Dahab Kashi (E145)
Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives - Remastered
Against the Imperialist Impulse w/ Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (E144)
Special Episode: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine w/ Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach
Sudan in Revolution and War w/ Dalia Abdelmoniem and Raga Makawi (E143)
How the World Failed Nagorno-Karabakh w/ Karena Avedissian & Anna (E142)
How the EU Criminalizes Solidarity with Migrants w/ Border Violence Monitoring Network (E141)
The Moral Urgency of Degrowth w/ Timothée Parrique & Yusra Bitar (E140)
Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery w/ Leila Al Shami, Romeo Kokriatski & Dana El Kurd (E139)
We Need To Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani (E138)
Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon Special Fundraising!
Re-membering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd (E137)
When War Gets Normalized, Or What's At Stake in Ukraine w/ Mariam Naiem and Romeo Kokriatski (E136)
Radical Legacies of the Mexican Revolution w/ Christina Heatherton and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik (E135)
Unlocked. When You're Not The Target Audience: Two Arab Millennials Talk About Seinfeld w/ Ayman Makarem (Premium 1)
Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel (E134)
Overcoming the Trauma of Caste w/ Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rhythima Shinde and Vivek Ramachandran (E133)
Let's Talk About Youth Autonomy w/ carla joy bergman (E132)
Commoning in Lebanon's Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri (E131)
Armenian-ness and Solidarity in a Changing World w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna (E130)
The Meaning of Time in Prison w/ Morgan Godvin and Molly Hagan (E129)
The Islamic Regime of Iran Will Fall w/ Vicky and Kiana (E128)
Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski (E127)
Premium Episode 1: Watching Seinfeld as Arab Millennials w/ Ayman Makarem (Sample)
The Memory We Could Be: Fear and Our Ecological Future w/ Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik (E126)
Understanding (Anti-)Fascism in a World in Crisis w/ Shane Burley (E125)
Jessie Gender on how Star Trek deals with neurodiversity, race, and queerness (E124)
Hauntings, Futurisms and the Present Movement w/ Luka Dowell aka Solarpunk Now! (E123)
In Search of Afro-Solarpunk w/ Rob Cameron (E122)
Solarpunk and Post-Capitalist Desires w/ HydroponicTrash (E121)
Special: How to Make Football Radical, a 2022 FIFA World Cup Retrospective w/ Musa Okwonga, Justin Salhani and Fabien Goa
Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War w/ Mariam Naiem & Romeo Kokriatski (E120)
Lessons on the Path to Radicalization w/ Andrew Sage & Emmi Bevensee (E119)
Bosnia, False Histories and Fact-Free Politics w/ Edin Hajdarpašić (E118)
The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung (E117)
Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction w/ Andrew Dana Hudson (E116)
Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route w/ Sally Hayden (E115)
Why Nostalgia in the Periphery Feels Different w/ Efe Levent (E114)
Taiwan's Wen Liu & Brian Hioe on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen (E113)
From Yarmouk to the World: On Syria, Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nidal Betare (E112)
What is Happening in Tigray? w/ Teklehaymanot Weldemichel (E111)
Special: On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse w/ Michael J. DeLuca
Climate Narratives that Go Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Alyssa Hull (E110)
Pro-Palestine Activism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World w/ Dana El-Kurd (E109)
What Asexuality Says About Society w/ Angela Chen (E108)
Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson (E107)
🌻 Ukraine Special: 3. The threads that bind us from Syria to Ukraine
#Qatar2022, Russia and What Comes Next w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani (E106)
What 'Living With Covid' Actually Means w/ Martin Paul Eve (E105)
The Urgency of the IPCC Report w/ Dr Rupa Mukerji and Dr Lisa Schipper (E104)
🌻 Ukraine Special: 2. From Ukraine, with Love (and Anger) w/ Romeo Kokriatski
The Periphery and Aimé Césaire's Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution w/ Fadi Bardawil (E103)
ARCHIVE: the Legacy of Chemical Weapons from Halabja to Ghouta w/ Sabrîna Azad
On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body w/ Amro Ali (E102)
🌻 Ukraine Special: 1. A View From Syria w/ Leila Al-Shami
Mending the World: A Jewish-Arab Diaspora Conversation w/ Cindy Milstein (E101)
The Story of Three Black Mothers: Louise Little, Berdis Baldwin and Albert King w/ Anna Malaika Tubbs (E100)
ARCHIVE: Disinformation, Russia and Syrian-Ukrainian Solidarity w/ Peter Pomerantsev
Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies w/ Marie Berry and Milli Lake (E99)
Crossover: The Strange Amnesia of Lebanon's Wars w/ New Lines
Space, Nostalgia and Retro-Futurism in Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nat Muller (E98)
Why I Stopped Writing About Syria w/ Asser Khattab (E97)
The Arab Spring Diaspora Against Transnational Repression w/ Dana Moss (E96)
Reproductive Justice & Complicating Acts of Advocacy w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam (E95)
The Political Economy of Solarpunk w/ Andrew Dana Hudson (E94)
It Could Happen Here: On The New Periphery
Mangal Media: Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable
Voice Messages From The Balkan Route
Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights w/ Shareah Taleghani (E93)
Big Tech and Data Colonialism w/ Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon (E92)
Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use w/ Jefim Vogel & Julia Steinberger (E91)
The Ecological Paradox of Digital Economies w/ Paz Peña (E90)
Tiananmen, Denialism and History w/ Mia Wong (E89)
A History of Nothing w/ Susan A. Crane (E88)
Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Back our World w/ Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer (E87)
Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism w/ Bram Büscher (E86)
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)
The Legacy of the Great Lebanon Famine w/ Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari (E85)
Space, Fiction and Growing Up in ‘Postwar’ Lebanon w/ Naji Bakhti (E84)
Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives w/ Tareq Baconi (E83)
The Populist Hype, ‘the People’ and the Far Right w/ Aurelien Mondon (E82)
Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future w/ Phoebe Wagner (E81)
Syria, State Ideology and Climate Politics w/ Marwa Daoudy (E80)
Erasures, Borders and the Afterlife of the Armenian Genocide w/ Sophia Armen (E79)
Pedagogies of Liberation, Gender and the Syrian Revolution w/ Banah Ghadbian (E78)
From Hong Kong to Lebanon, Basebuilding Against Authoritarianism w/ Promise Li (E77)
Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives w/ Daniel Randall (E76)
The Precariatized Mind and the Case for a Basic Income for All w/ Guy Standing (E75)
Special Episode: Palestine and Global Solidarity
Intervention: Majed Abusalama #GazaUnderAttack
[Repost]: Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse
A Conversation on Israel-Palestine, (Anti)Zionism and International Solidarity (Special Episode)
The Political Economy of Car Dependence: Understanding Systems of Provision w/ Giulio Mattioli & Julia Steinberger (E74)
1958: Re-imagining a Revolutionary Year in Revolutionary Times w/ Jeffrey Karam (E73)
The Inherent Toxicity of France’s ‘Islamo-Leftism’ Obsession w/ Rim-Sarah Alouane (E72)
Lebanon’s ‘Postwar’ Hauntings w/ Ely Dagher (E71)
(Post)Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East w/ Nader Hashemi & Danny Postel (E70)
The Entrenched “Manliness” of Ethnic Power-sharing Peace Agreements w/ Aida A. Hozić (E69)
Solarpunk, Youth Liberation and Why Revolution Needs Therapy w/ Saint Andrew (E68)
Cultural Dementia: How the West Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else w/ David Andress (E67)
Intervention: Anti-Fascist Solidarity in Lyon (English/Français)
Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine w/ Dana El Kurd (E66)
#StopAsianHate [Repost] Sex Workers' Rights, Basebuilding and Mutual Aid (with Kate Zen)
Shifting Towards Climate-Just Mobility w/ Anne Kretzschmar (E65)
In the End, It Was All About Love w/ Musa Okwonga (E64)
Queerness, Literature and Revolution w/ Saleem Haddad (E63)
How to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C: A Societal Transformation Scenario w/ Kai Kuhnhenn and Linda Schneider (E62)
A Class Analysis of the Arab Spring w/ Anand Gopal (E61)
(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 2 w/ Emmi Bevensee (E60)
(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 1 w/ Emmi Bevensee (E59)
Democracy, Counterrevolution and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism w/ Rohini Hensman (E58)
The Psychology of Silicon Valley w/ Katy Cook (E57)
A Region in Revolt: The Uprisings in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran (E56)
Lessons from Workers' Resistance in China w/ Zhongjin Li & Eli Friedman (E55)
What Management Theory Can Learn From Anarchism w/ Martin Parker & Thomas Swann (E54)
Masculinity in Pop Culture: The Toxic and the Subversive w/ Jonathan McIntosh (E53)
The Palestinian Left and Its Decline w/ Francesco Saverio Leopardi (E52)
The Case for People-centered Recovery Processes in Beirut w/ Mona Harb (E51)
Reflections on the first 50 episodes and upcoming projects
The Anatomy of a Nazi Party in 21st Century Europe w/ Loukas Stamellos (E50)
The Moria Camp and Fortress Europe's Deadly Xenophobia w/ Ghias Al Jundi (E49)
Our Climate Emergency Present w/ Peter Kalmus (E48)
The Current Crises in Lebanon w/ Lara Bitar (E47)
Hong Kong, Disappearances and the Emotional Cost of Disinformation w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam (E46)
Ethiopian Migrants' Saudi Hell/Ethiopia's Anti-Government Protests w/ Zecharias Zelalem (E45)
That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Growing Up Queer in Lebanon w/ Hamed Sinno (E44)
The World's Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide is Happening in Xinjiang w/ Rayhan Asat and Yonah Diamond (E43)
The Beirut Explosion w/ Lina Mounzer (E42)
Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter and Syria w/ Mariam Barghouti (E41)
Queer Transnational Activism in the Middle East and Beyond w/ "The Queer Arabs" (E40)
Basebuilding, Sex Workers’ Rights and Mutual Aid w/ Kate Zen (E39)
My Father and Syria's Forcibly Disappeared w/Wafa Mustafa (E38)
The Racialisation of Migrant Labor Under the Kafala System in Lebanon w/ Daryn Howland (E37)
Lebanon’s Deep Crisis Explained w/ Timour Azhari (E36)
The EU's Violence Against Asylum Seekers w/ Jack Sapoch (E35)
34/Remembering Through Storytelling in Times of Hardship in Lebanon (with Ronnie Chatah)
Mutual Aid is Sweeping the World w/ Zoe Smith (E33)
Syria, Palestine and Discourse w/ Mohammed Sulaiman (E32)
Disinformation, 'Post-truth' and What To Do About Them w/ Peter Pomerantsev (E31)
Intervention: Ghanaian woman on surviving slavery in Lebanon. #AbolishKafala
Poetry, Tripoli and Navigating the Moment w/ Zeina Hashem Beck (E30)
Intervention: Saleem Haddad on the death of Sarah Hegazy
Syria's Women Journalists w/ Rula Asad (E29)
Grief, Borders and Music w/ Yousef Kekhia (E28)
The Risks of Psychologising Patriarchal Oppression w/ Chuck Derry (E27)
The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On w/ Ziad Majed (E26)
Intervention: Street Action #BlackLivesMatter
Resistance, Rescue and Waging Non-Violence w/ Bryan Farell (E25)
Bellingcat: Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World w/ Eliot Higgins (E24)
Building Mutual Aid in Lebanon w/ Ayman Makarem (E22)
Taiwan Since the 2014 Sunflower Movement w/ Brian Hioe (E21)
Primo Levi, Lebanon's Revolution and Life in the Midst of History w/ Lina Mounzer (E20)
Our Women on the Ground w/ Zahra Hankir (E19)
Living Fernando Pessoa’s Dreamlife in Lisbon w/ Saleem Haddad (E18)
What the Lebanese should know about Ethiopia w/ Zecharias Zelalem (E17)
The Second Wave of the Lebanon Protests w/ Nadim El Kak (E16)
Yiddish Bundism w/ Molly Crabapple (E15)
Revolution, disenchantment and the Lebanese New Left w/ Fadi Bardawil (E14)
Being the good immigrant in an ungrateful country w/ Musa Okwonga (E13)
Independent media versus the Lebanese oligarchy w/ Julia Choucair Vizoso (E12)
Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference w/ Kareem Shaheen (E10)
Lebanon’s October Uprising Six Months Later w/ Timour Azhari (E8)
Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta w/ Sabrîna Azad (E7)
Lebanon: A Country in Fragments w/ Andrew Arsan (E6)
Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers: Between the Coronavirus and Slavery w/ Banchi Yimer (E5)
Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine w/ with Crimethinc (E4)
Venezuela and the Right to Narrate w/ Laura Vidal (E3)
Lebanon Must Abolish The Kafala System w/ Mesewat and ARM at Beirut's Migrant Community Center (E2)
Hong Kong's Protests w/ JP from Lausan Collective (E1)