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A Debut Novel Explores Anti-Blackness in Sudan: Featuring Reem Gaafar
When a little boy drowns in the Nile, a Sudanese village is forced to confront its racist past in Reem Gaafar’s debut novel A Mouth Full of Salt.
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Parenting in a time of genocide
Stories of Greta Thunberg on Gaza freedom flotilla, Laila Souief’s deteriorating health and Noor Abdalla's reflections on motherhood reveal parenting as…
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Why Celebrity Algorithms are Destroying You
The hosts take a critical look at the algorithms ruling our lives on social media and beyond, with a warning to divest from celebrity content and…
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May 2025

Haphazard notes on mourning Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Literary giant, intellectual, and dissident Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o passed away on May 28, 2025. He leaves us with a mountain of ideas filed away in hundreds…
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How to Be a Queer, Anti-Zionist, Pro-Palestinian Jew: Featuring Sim Kern
Sim Kern’s journey as an outspoken and empathetic activist for Palestinian liberation began when they realized, as a teenager, that global warming would…
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UCop: A Small Town Tale of Big Cop Ambitions
Actual policing and administrative policing are two sides of the same coin at UConn's rural campus as the intersecting violence toward pro-Palestine…
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Palestinian writing is in the spotlight but is that good?
Marcia Lynx Qualey, the force behind Arablit, in a nuanced and wide-ranging conversation on the politics of publishing about Palestine for an episode of…
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Publishing on Palestine: Exploitation or Activism? Featuring Marcia Lynx Qualey
Writer, editor, and publisher Marcia Lynx Qualey remarked that “the literature currently in the spotlight, in many languages, is Palestinian” while…
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From Warscapes, with Love
Sept 29, 2022: After more than a decade of bringing you writing and art from over 60 countries, WARSCAPES has transitioned into the Radical Books…
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Nakba Then, Nakba Now: It is Year 77
Jehan Bseiso reads her poem “Bint Nakba” and we share a video from our New York City event last year where over 20 writers and artists came together in…
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Episode 24: The Screen, the Stadium and the State: Bollywood Comes out to Play
The hosts take a sharp, playful, and unflinching look at Bollywood’s obsession with sports films and the not-so-subtle nationalism embedded within them.
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“I cannot unsee what I saw,” Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah told filmmakers
Radical Futures series launches with filmmakers Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi whose documentary tells the story of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah who decided to…
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