The Fire These Times Project

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: 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)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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

16. The Second Wave of the Lebanon Protests