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Genocidal Inhumanitarianism
Lets stop playing games with the word “human.” By Bhakti Shringarpure.
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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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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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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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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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“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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Reading Palestine: Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Join us to discuss Perfect Victims, a powerful indictment and staunch refusal of the world’s desire to see Palestinians as victims and subjects of…
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Remember Joseph Kony?
We may have forgotten Kony but a new novel by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek urges against forgetting the victims and survivors who bore the brunt of his…
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Carceral academia
American universities might seem to be going overboard with violent cops, student arrests, and criminalizing protest but academia has always been a…
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Fool me twice, shame on me.
The media might fake innocence when it comes to Trump, Palestine, and migration but our podcast insists on accountability and critical analysis. Plus…
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Radical hope and gratitude
A book club on Mahmoud Darwish, commemorating one year of the ICJ case, and 5 books we must all read in 2025.
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