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The Fire These Times — 264 episodes

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218/ Solarpunk Panel 2026 w/ Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon & Andre

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217/ Israel Bombed My Hometown - And I Worry About a Civil War (Monologue)

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216/ Voices from Lebanon w/ Lina Mounzer & Justin Salhani

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215/ Israel's Wars Won't Be Contained (Monologue)

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214/ Lebanon Haunts the World (Monologue)

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213/ The War on Iran (Monologue)

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212/ Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation

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211/ Organizing Against ICE w/ Nicole Bedera, Ed & Aydin

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210/ Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson

10

209/ Burnout, Grief and The Solidarity Apothecary w/ Nicole Rose

11

The First Masterclass is Here! (Jan/Feb 2026)

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208/ What Mamdani's Victory Means w/ Dana El Kurd

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207/ Malcolm X and Our Modern Struggle w/ The Dugout and Mohamed Abdou

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206/ The Limits of Palestinian-ness w/ Pablo Abufom

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205/ Warsaw Ghetto, Gaza Ghetto

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204/ The Kashmir Question: What Comes Next w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes

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203/ The Kashmir Question: Resistance w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes

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202/ The Kashmir Question: Origins w/ Ather Zia, Hafsa Kanjwal and Abdulla Moaswes

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201/ This Cannot Be The New Normal

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200/ The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor

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199/ The Stories That Fascism Fears Most w/ Jessie Gender (Special Crossover w/ Resistance is Fertile)

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198/ A Liquid Convo About Venezuela w/ Laura Vidal

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197/ Our Region After Samir Kassir: Special 20 Years Commemoration w/ Ziad Majed

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196/ The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid (Part 2)

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195/ The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid (Part 1)

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194/ Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg (Part 2)

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193/ Intent and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg (Part 1)

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192/ Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration (Part 2)

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192/ Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration (Part 1)

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Introducing "Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution"

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191/ We Are the Children of the Children of War w/ Justin Salhani

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190/ What Trump Sees in Bukele w/ Michael Paarlberg

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189/ Doikayt ('Hereness') Now! w/ Molly Crabapple

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188/ Revolutionary Aid in Sudan w/ Eiad Husham

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Announcement - Lebanese Films Screenings

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Hauntologies 5/ Restorative vs Reflective Nostalgia

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187/ Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 2

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186/ Round table: Where are the Arabs? Part 1

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185/ What Ukraine Faces w/ Romeo Kokriatski

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184/ Öcalan's Statement and the Future of the PKK w/ Dîlan

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TFTT x Obscuristan: Navalny, A Year Later

42

Black History Month Special: Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson

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Hauntologies 4/ Punishing the Land

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Hauntologies 3/ Lebanon's Lost Communist Future

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Video Essay Announcement

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Hauntologies 2/ This Moment. Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza

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183/ Making Home in Exile: Stories from the New Syrian Diaspora w/ Wendy Pearlman

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182/ Our Mirror Worlds w/ Naomi Klein

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Hauntologies 1/ Merry Christmas Homs

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181/ Don't Despair, We Got This w/ Margaret Killjoy

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180/ The Golan Heights, Syria and Palestine’s Intertwined Liberations w/ Banah Ghadbian

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179/ Lebanon: What Now? w/ Mohamad Bazzi

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178/ Roundtable on Syria

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177/ Mutual Aid in Lebanon Today w/ Serge and Abir

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Rerun/ Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri

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176/ American Neocons, Christian Zionists & Israeli Fascism w/ Atalia Omer

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The Mutual Aid Podcast: Ep #1 - Introductions

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175/ Beekeeping in the End Times w/ Larisa Jašarević

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174/ Lebanon From 1860 to the Present Day w/ Ayman Makarem

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173/ This Arab is Queer w/Elias Jahshan, israa' and Leila Al Shami

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Premium Episode 2: Hezbollah (Sample)

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172/ The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory w/ Daniel Voskoboynik

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171/ What is Happening with Balochistan? w/ Lateef Johar Baloch and Hari Prasad

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170/ Facing the German Far Right w/ Musa Okwonga

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169/Macronisme and the Far Right w/ Sahar Amarir & Rim-Sarah Alouane

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Against Multipolar Imperialism w/ Kavita Krishnan⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Promise Li⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Romeo Kokriatski (Rerun)

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168/ Building Transnational Solidarity w/ Chkoun? Collective and Leila Al Shami

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167/ Netanyahu's Dubaization Plan for Gaza After the Genocide w/ Yasser Elsheshtawy

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166/ Israel-Palestine After Zionism w/ Ahmed Moor, Antony Loewenstein and Dana El Kurd

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165/ That One Time the Olympics Were Cool w/ James Stout

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164/ El Salvador's Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg

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163/ The Far Right is Not Inevitable w/ Aurelien Mondon

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TFTT Archives: Hamed Sinno on Sarah Hegazi, Mental Health and Growing up Queer in Lebanon

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162/ Spaces of Exception and the Struggle for Native American and Palestinian Autonomy

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161/ The Gaza Genocide Changes Everything

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160/ Raising a Brown Child in a Time of Genocide w/ Nikesh Shukla

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159/ Building Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity w/ Yuliia Kishchuk

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158/ The Threat of Christian Fascism in Lebanon w/ Justin Salhani

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157/ Taking Authoritarianism Seriously w/ Bill Fletcher Jr

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156/Obscuristan: Navalny from the Periphery w/ Anna, Karena & Daniel

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Politically Depressed Eps. 9-12

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155/ The '82 Israeli Siege of Beirut: Similarities and Differences with Gaza Today w/ Justin Salhani

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154/ Anti-Imperialism After the Syrian Revolution w/ Sahar Amarir

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153/ Living Like the World is Dying w/ Margaret Killjoy

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152/ Israel and American Jewish Dissent w/ Geoffrey Levin

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Politically Depressed Eps. 5-8

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151/ Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors w/ Tory Stephens and Daniel Voskoboynik

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150/ The Israeli War on Southern Lebanon w/ Karim Safieddine, Michelle Eid & Justin Salhani

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Politically Depressed - First 4 Episodes

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149/ How Azerbaijan is Greenwashing Genocide w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna

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148/ Understanding Seen and Unseen Violence in Israel-Palestine w/ Diana Greenwald & Alexei Abrahams

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147/ From Capitalism Realism to Solarpunk Realities w/ HydroponicTrash, Luka Dowell, Ariel Kroon

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Palestine and Global Solidarity - Remastered w/ Sumaya Awad and Shireen Akram-Boshar

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146/ Jewish Safety Means Palestinian Liberation: Organizing In Israel-Palestine After Oct 7 w/ Sally Abed, Orly Noy and Amjad Iraqi

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145/ Arab Jews For Palestinian Liberation w/ Hadar Cohen and Dahab Kashi

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Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives - Remastered

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144/ Against the Imperialist Impulse w/ Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

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Special Episode: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine w/ Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach

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143/ Sudan in Revolution and War w/ Dalia Abdelmoniem and Raga Makawi

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142/ How the World Failed Nagorno-Karabakh w/ Karena Avedissian & Anna

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141/ How the EU Criminalizes Solidarity with Migrants w/ Border Violence Monitoring Network

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140/ The Moral Urgency of Degrowth w/ Timothée Parrique & Yusra Bitar

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139/ Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery w/ Leila Al Shami, Romeo Kokriatski & Dana El Kurd

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138/ We Need To Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani

105

Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon Special Fundraising!

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137/ Re-membering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd

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136/ When War Gets Normalized, Or What's At Stake in Ukraine w/ Mariam Naiem and Romeo Kokriatski

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135/ Radical Legacies of the Mexican Revolution w/ Christina Heatherton and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

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Unlocked. When You're Not The Target Audience: Two Arab Millennials Talk About Seinfeld w/ Ayman Makarem (Premium 1)

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134/ Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel

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133/ Overcoming the Trauma of Caste w/ Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rhythima Shinde and Vivek Ramachandran

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132/ Let's Talk About Youth Autonomy w/ carla joy bergman

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131/ Commoning in Lebanon's Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri

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130/ Armenian-ness and Solidarity in a Changing World w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna

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129/ The Meaning of Time in Prison w/ Morgan Godvin and Molly Hagan

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128/ The Islamic Regime of Iran Will Fall w/ Vicky and Kiana

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127/ Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski

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Premium Episode 1: Watching Seinfeld as Arab Millennials w/ Ayman Makarem (Sample)

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126/ The Memory We Could Be: Fear and Our Ecological Future w/ Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

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125/ Understanding (Anti-)Fascism in a World in Crisis w/ Shane Burley

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124/ Jessie Gender on how Star Trek deals with neurodiversity, race, and queerness

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123/ Hauntings, Futurisms and the Present Movement w/ Luka Dowell aka Solarpunk Now!

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122/ In Search of Afro-Solarpunk w/ Rob Cameron

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121/ Solarpunk and Post-Capitalist Desires w/ HydroponicTrash

125

Special: How to Make Football Radical, a 2022 FIFA World Cup Retrospective w/ Musa Okwonga, Justin Salhani and Fabien Goa

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120/ Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War w/ Mariam Naiem & Romeo Kokriatski

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119/ Lessons on the Path to Radicalization w/ Andrew Sage & Emmi Bevensee

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118/ Bosnia, False Histories and Fact-Free Politics w/ Edin Hajdarpašić

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117/ The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung

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116/ Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction w/ Andrew Dana Hudson

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115/ Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route w/ Sally Hayden

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114/ Why Nostalgia in the Periphery Feels Different w/ Efe Levent x Mangal Media

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113/ Taiwan's Wen Liu & Brian Hioe on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen

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112/ From Yarmouk to the World: On Syria, Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nidal Betare

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111/ What is Happening in Tigray? w/ Teklehaymanot Weldemichel

136

Special: On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse w/ Michael J. DeLuca

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110/ Climate Narratives that Go Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Alyssa Hull

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109/ The Link Between Pro-Palestine Activism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World w/ Dana El-Kurd

139

108/ What Asexuality Says About Society w/ Angela Chen

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107/ Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson

141

🌻 Ukraine Special: 3. The threads that bind us from Syria to Ukraine

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106/ Football is Political: #Qatar2022, Russia and What Comes Next w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani

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105/ What 'Living With Covid' Actually Means w/ Martin Paul Eve

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104/ The Urgency of the IPCC Report w/ Dr Rupa Mukerji and Dr Lisa Schipper

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🌻 Ukraine Special: 2. From Ukraine, with Love (and Anger) w/ Romeo Kokriatski

146

103/ The Periphery and Aimé Césaire's Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution w/ Fadi Bardawil

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ARCHIVE: the Legacy of Chemical Weapons from Halabja to Ghouta w/ Sabrîna Azad

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102/ On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body w/ Amro Ali

149

🌻 Ukraine Special: 1. A View From Syria w/ Leila Al-Shami

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101/ Mending the World: A Jewish-Arab Diaspora Conversation w/ Cindy Milstein

151

100/ The Story of Three Black Mothers: Louise Little, Berdis Baldwin and Albert King w/ Anna Malaika Tubbs

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ARCHIVE: Disinformation, Russia and Syrian-Ukrainian Solidarity w/ Peter Pomerantsev

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99/ Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies w/ Marie Berry and Milli Lake

154

Crossover: The Strange Amnesia of Lebanon's Wars w/ New Lines

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98/ Space, Nostalgia and Retro-Futurism in Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nat Muller

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97/ Why I Stopped Writing About Syria w/ Asser Khattab

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96/ The Arab Spring Diaspora Against Transnational Repression w/ Dana Moss

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95/ Untellable Stories, Reproductive Justice & Complicating Acts of Advocacy w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam

159

94/ The Political Economy of Solarpunk w/ Andrew Dana Hudson

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It Could Happen Here: On The New Periphery

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Mangal Media: Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable

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Voice Messages From The Balkan Route

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93/ Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights (with Shareah Taleghani)

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92/ Big Tech, Gatopardismo and Data Colonialism (With Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon)

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91/ Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use (With Jefim Vogel & Julia Steinberger)

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90/ The Ecological Paradox of Digital Economies (with Paz Peña)

167

89/ Tiananmen, Denialism and History (With Mia Wong)

168

88/ A History of Nothing (With Susan A. Crane)

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87/ Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Back our World (With Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer)

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86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)

171

I read the names of the Beirut port explosion victims

172

August 4th 2020: "It Sounded Like The World Itself Was Breaking Open" (With Lina Mounzer)

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85/ The Legacy of the Great Lebanon Famine (with Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari)

174

84/ Space, Fiction and Growing Up in ‘Postwar’ Lebanon (with Naji Bakhti)

175

83/ Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives (with Tareq Baconi)

176

82/ The Populist Hype, ‘the People’ and the Far Right (With Aurelien Mondon)

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81/ Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future (With Phoebe Wagner)

178

80/ Syria, State Ideology and Climate Politics (With Marwa Daoudy)

179

79/ Erasures, Borders and the Afterlife of the Armenian Genocide (with Sophia Armen)

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78/ Pedagogies of Liberation, Gender and the Syrian Revolution (with Banah Ghadbian)

181

77/ From Hong Kong to Lebanon, Basebuilding Against Authoritarianism (with Promise Li)

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76/ Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives (with Daniel Randall)

183

75/ The Precariatized Mind and the Case for a Basic Income for All (with Guy Standing)

184

Special Episode: Palestine and Global Solidarity

185

Intervention: Majed Abusalama #GazaUnderAttack

186

[Repost]: Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse

187

Special Episode: A Conversation on Israel-Palestine, (Anti)Zionism and International Solidarity

188

74/ The Political Economy of Car Dependence: Understanding Systems of Provision (with Giulio Mattioli & Julia Steinberger)

189

73/ 1958: Re-imagining a Revolutionary Year in Revolutionary Times (with Jeffrey Karam)

190

72/ The Inherent Toxicity of France’s ‘Islamo-Leftism’ Obsession (with Rim-Sarah Alouane)

191

71/ Bearing Witness to What is Lost: Lebanon’s ‘Postwar’ Hauntings (with Ely Dagher)

192

70/ (Post)Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (With Nader Hashemi & Danny Postel)

193

69/ The Entrenched “Manliness” of Ethnic Power-sharing Peace Agreements (with Aida A. Hozić)

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68/ Solarpunk, Youth Liberation and Why Revolution Needs Therapy (with Saint Andrew)

195

67/ Cultural Dementia: How the West Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else (with David Andress)

196

Intervention: Anti-Fascist Solidarity in Lyon (English/Français)

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66/ Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine (with Dana El Kurd)

198

#StopAsianHate [Repost] Sex Workers' Rights, Basebuilding and Mutual Aid (with Kate Zen)

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65/Shifting Towards Climate-Just Mobility (with Anne Kretzschmar)

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64/In the End, It Was All About Love (with Musa Okwonga)

201

63/Queerness, Literature and Revolution (With Saleem Haddad)

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62/ How to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C: A Societal Transformation Scenario (with Kai Kuhnhenn and Linda Schneider)

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61/ A Class Analysis of the Arab Spring (with Anand Gopal)

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60/(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 2 (with Emmi Bevensee)

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59/(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare, Part 1 (with Emmi Bevensee)

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58/ Democracy, Counterrevolution and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism (with Rohini Hensman)

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57/The Psychology of Silicon Valley (with Katy Cook)

208

56/A Region in Revolt: The Uprisings in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran (Book Launch)

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55/Lessons from Workers' Resistance in China (with Zhongjin Li & Eli Friedman)

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54/What Management Theory Can Learn From Anarchism (With Martin Parker & Thomas Swann)

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53/Masculinity in Pop Culture: The Toxic and the Subversive (With Jonathan McIntosh)

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52/The Palestinian Left and Its Decline (with Francesco Saverio Leopardi)

213

51/The Case for People-centered Recovery Processes in Beirut (with Mona Harb)

214

Reflections on the first 50 episodes and upcoming projects

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50/Golden Dawn: The Anatomy of a Nazi Party in 21st Century Europe (with Loukas Stamellos)

216

49/The Moria Camp and Fortress Europe's Deadly Xenophobia (with Ghias Al Jundi)

217

48/Our Climate Emergency Present (with Peter Kalmus)

218

47/Evaporated Euphoria: the Current Crises in Lebanon (with Lara Bitar)

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46/Hong Kong, Disappearances and the Emotional Cost of Disinformation (with Shui-yin Sharon Yam)

220

45/Ethiopian Migrants' Saudi Hell/Ethiopia's Anti-Government Protests (with Zecharias Zelalem)

221

44/That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Growing Up Queer in Lebanon (with Hamed Sinno)

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43/ The World's Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide is Happening in Xinjiang (with Rayhan Asat and Yonah Diamond)

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42/"It Sounded Like The World Itself Was Breaking Open": The Beirut Explosion (with Lina Mounzer)

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41/Rendering Our Struggles Visible: Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter and Syria (with Mariam Barghouti)

225

40/We Exist: Queer Transnational Activism in the Middle East and Beyond (with "The Queer Arabs")

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39/Basebuilding, Sex Workers’ Rights and Mutual Aid (with Kate Zen)

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38/My Father and Syria's Forcibly Disappeared (with Wafa Mustafa)

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37/The Racialisation of Migrant Labor Under the Kafala System in Lebanon (with Daryn Howland)

229

36/Lebanon’s Deep Crisis Explained (with Timour Azhari)

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35/The European Union's Violence Against Asylum Seekers (with Jack Sapoch)

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34/Remembering Through Storytelling in Times of Hardship in Lebanon (with Ronnie Chatah)

232

33/Mutual Aid is Sweeping the World (with Zoe Smith)

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32/Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse (with Mohammed Sulaiman)

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31/Disinformation, 'Post-truth' and What To Do About Them (with Peter Pomerantsev)

235

Intervention: Ghanaian woman on surviving slavery in Lebanon. #AbolishKafala

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30/Poetry, Tripoli and Navigating the Moment (with Zeina Hashem Beck)

237

Intervention: Saleem Haddad on the death of Sarah Hegazy

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29/Gender, Representation and the Role of Women Journalists in Syria (with Rula Asad)

239

28/Who Owns This World? Grief, Borders and Music [Correct Version] (with Yousef Kekhia)

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27/The Risks of Psychologising Patriarchal Oppression (with Chuck Derry)

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26/The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On (with Ziad Majed)

242

Intervention: Street Action #BlackLivesMatter

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25/Resistance, Rescue and Waging Non-Violence (with Bryan Farell)

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24/Bellingcat: Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World (with Eliot Higgins)

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22/Building Mutual Aid in Lebanon (with Ayman Makarem)

246

21/Taiwan Since the 2014 Sunflower Movement (with Brian Hioe)

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20/On Primo Levi, the Lebanese Revolution and Life in the Midst of History (with Lina Mounzer)

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19/Our Women on the Ground (with Zahra Hankir)

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18/Guapa, Marco and living Fernando Pessoa’s dreamlife in Lisbon (with Saleem Haddad)

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17/What the Lebanese should know about Ethiopia (with Zecharias Zelalem)

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16/The second wave of the Lebanon protests (with Nadim El Kak)

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15/The legacy of Yiddish Bundism (with Molly Crabapple)

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14/Revolution, disenchantment and the Lebanese New Left (with Fadi Bardawil)

254

13/Being the good immigrant in an ungrateful country (with Musa Okwonga)

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12/Independent media versus the Lebanese oligarchy (with Julia Choucair Vizoso)

256

10/Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference (with Kareem Shaheen)

257

8/Lebanon’s October Uprising, Six Months Later (with Timour Azhari)

258

7/Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta (with Sabrîna Azad)

259

6/Lebanon's October 17 Revolution/ A Country in Fragments (with Andrew Arsan)

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5/Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers: Between the Coronavirus and Slavery (with Banchi Yimer)

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4/ Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too w/ with Crimethinc

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3/ Venezuela and the Right to Narrate w/ Laura Vidal

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2/ Lebanon Must Abolish The Kafala System w/ Mesewat and ARM (at Beirut's Migrant Community Center)

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1/ Why Hong Kong's Protests Last w/ JP from Lausan Collective