Laila Al-Arian on Objectivity

Abdallah Fayyad (@abdallah_fayyad) wrote a series of editorials for The Boston Globe that made him a Pulitzer Prize finalist. We spoke to him a few months ago about the two-year anniversary of an open-letter criticizing Western media coverage of Palestine. In light of the recent ...  Show more

“The Key is to Make It” Sama'an Ashrawi has interviewed some of the biggest music artists to date and somehow always managed to get them to open up. He says a little vulnerability goes a long way. Show Notes: Read Sama'an's profile of DJ Khaled An open letter on media coverage of ...  Show more

The brothers welcome Laila al-Arian, executive producer for the Al Jazeera English documentary series Fault Lines. They discuss the anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim orthodoxies of the mainstream Western media, the coverage of the genocide in Gaza, the dissenting spa ...

What impact did the 2011 Arab Uprisings have on our use of technology? How should we approach, regulate and manage technologies as they emerge? And is it really possible to make political predictions by analysing tweets? We talk about cross-cultural communication, her book ‘Arabi ...  Show more

This episode is taken from adrienne’s Instagram live with the writer/poet Hala Alyan. Her recent piece in the NYT is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/opinion/palestine ...

Palestinian-American writer and poet Hala Alyan joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss her recent memoir, motherhood and the politics of writing during the Gaza war

Produced by Finbar Anderson