"History Is Not Just a Pile of Ruins" Abdalja...

Today marks the third anniversary of Tufan Al Aqsa, the Palestinian resistance's historic jailbreak out of the Gaza concentration camp. Since October 7th, 2023 asymmetrical warfare has been waged across West Asia. The consensus of the international community has been that the Isr ...  Show more

This is an audio version of a recently published video episode As many have been closely following the unfolding events in Yemen in recent weeks, we were able to catch up with Isa Blumi, author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World. We discussed aspec ...  Show more

What are the politics of Palestine, who can take over a Palestinian state when it is conceived? Aboud Hamayel, also known under his pen name Abdaljawad Omar is a writer and theorist and a Lecturer of Philosophy at Bir Zeit University on the Occupied West Bank. Abdaljawad gives us ...  Show more

Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the BZU Museum (@bzu.museum). Abduljawad Omar (@HHamayel2) is a lecturer at Birzeit University. Check out the article, "The parallel human: Walid Daqqah on the 1948 Palestinian polit ...  Show more

Professor Doumani gives us a critical historical context for what's happening in Palestine right now, explaining why and how Palestine's colonial history is relevant today. He draws a stark contrast between pre-WWI Gaza and the besieged Gaza of the present day and addresses impor ...  Show more

The brothers welcome the historian Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University to the show to discuss the history of the Palestinian people's struggle against the Zionist project in Palestine, the colonial affiliations of Zionism, the background to the 1948 Nakba, and the role of Ar ...