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

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

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

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

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

Podcast: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route w/ Sally Hayden

Podcast: Nostalgia in the Periphery w/ Efe Levent

Podcast: A View on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen, from Taiwan w/ Wen Liu & Brian Hioe

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

Podcast: What is Happening in Tigray? w/ Teklehaymanot Weldemichel

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

Podcast: Climate Narratives that Go Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Alyssa Hull

Podcast: Pro-Palestine Activism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World w/ Dana El-Kurd

Podcast: What Asexuality Says About Society w/ Angela Chen

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

Podcast: The threads that bind us from Syria to Ukraine

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

Podcast: What ‘Living With Covid’ Actually Means w/ Martin Paul Eve

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

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

Podcast: The Periphery and Aimé Césaire’s Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution (with Fadi Bardawil)

Podcast: On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body (with Amro Ali)

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

101/ Mending the World: A Jewish-Arab Diaspora Conversation (with Cindy Milstein)

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

99/ Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies (With Marie Berry and Milli Lake)

Podcast: The Strange Amnesia of Lebanon’s Wars w/ New Lines

98/ Space Travel, Nostalgia, and Retrofuturism (With Nat Muller)

Podcast: Why I stopped writing about Syria (With Asser Khattab)

Podcast: The Arab Spring Diaspora Against Transnational Repression (With Dana Moss)

Podcast: Untellable Stories, Reproductive Justice & Complicating Acts of Advocacy (With Shui-yin Sharon Yam)

Podcast: The Political Economy of Solarpunk (with Andrew Dana Hudson)

Podcast: Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights (with Shareah Taleghani)

Podcast: Big Tech, Gatopardismo and Data Colonialism (With Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon)

Podcast: Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use (With Jefim Vogel & Julia Steinberger)

Podcast: The Ecological Paradox of Digital Economies (with Paz Peña)

Podcast: Tiananmen, Denialism and History (With Christopher Wong)

Podcast: A History of Nothing (With Susan A. Crane)

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

Podcast: Nature, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)

Podcast: The Legacy of the Great Lebanon Famine (with Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari)

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

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

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

Podcast: 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)

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

Special Episode: Palestine and Global Solidarity

Special Episode: A Conversation on Israel-Palestine

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)

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

65/ A Rapid and Just Transition of Aviation: 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)

59-60/(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare (with Emmi Bevensee)

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

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

56/A Region in Revolt (Book Launch)

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

54. What Management Theory Can Learn From Anarchism

53. Masculinity in Pop Culture: The Toxic and the Subversive

52. The Palestinian Left and Its Decline (1982-2007)

51. The Case for People-centered Recovery Processes in Beirut

Reflections on the first 50 Episodes

50. Golden Dawn: The Anatomy of a Nazi Party in 21st Century Europe

49. Moria Camp and the Deadly Cost of Fortress Europe

48. Our Climate Emergency Present

47. Evaporated Euphoria: the Current Crises in Lebanon

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

45. Ethiopian Migrants’ Saudi Hell/Anti-Gov Protests in Ethiopia

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 & Yonah Diamond)

42. It Sounded Like The World Itself Was Breaking Open

41. Rendering Our Struggles Visible: Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter and Syria

40. We Exist: Queer Transnational Activism in the Middle East and Beyond

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

36. Lebanon’s Deep Crisis Explained

35. The European Union’s Violence Against Asylum Seekers

34. Remembering Through Storytelling in Times of Hardship

33. Mutual Aid is Sweeping the World

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

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

30. Poetry, Tripoli and Navigating the Moment

29. Gender, Representation and the Role of Women Journalists in Syria

28. Who Owns This World? Grief, Borders and Music (with Yousef Kekhia)

27. The Risks of Psychologising Patriarchal Oppression

26. The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On

25. Resistance, Rescue and Waging Non-Violence

24. Bellingcat: Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World

23. Syria, Performativity, and Being Rooted in the Local

22. Building Mutual Aid in Lebanon

21. Taiwan Since the 2014 Sunflower Movement

20. On Primo Levi, the Lebanese Revolution and Life in the Midst of History

19. Our Women on the Ground

18. Guapa, Marco and Living Fernando Pessoa’s Dreamlife in Lisbon

17. What the Lebanese Should Know About Ethiopia

16. The Second Wave of the Lebanon Protests

15. The Legacy of Yiddish Bundism

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

13. Being the Good Immigrant in an Ungrateful Country

12. Independent Media Versus the Lebanese Oligarchy

11. COVID-19, Travel and Building Solidarity

10. Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference

09. ‘Whiteness’, Migration and Identity

08. Lebanon’s October Uprising, Six Months Later

Podcast: Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta

06. Lebanon’s October 17 Revolution/ A Country in Fragments

05. Lebanon’s Migrant Domestic Workers: Between the Coronavirus and Slavery

4. Against the Logic of the Guillotine

03. Venezuela and the Right to Narrate

02. Lebanon Must Abolish The Kafala System

01/Hong Kong’s Existential Crisis (with JP)

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