Give and Take

‏In this episode from a few years ago, we wandered through Arabic poetry and prose and talked about many different forms of literary love: regretful love, unreciprocated love, bad love, vengeful love, liberating love, married love. We read this poem by Núra al-Hawshán: “O eyes, p ...  Show more

‏Egypt’s January 25 revolution was 15 years ago. Since then many of its young leaders have been persecuted and the history of what happened distorted or denied. After spending over a decade in prison, the activist and writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah was finally released from prison in ...  Show more

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In this episode, Ricardo Karam meets with Raeda Taha, a Palestinian director and writer who was born in Jerusalem and is the daughter of Palestinian activist Al ...

‏The Palestinians are trapped. Not just by a powerful, US-backed military, but by international institutions and an international legal framework that stacks the deck in favor of supposedly moral state armies, and against the weaker peoples that are occupied and oppressed by them ...  Show more

‏سلسلة الأعداد الخاصة #9(ما وراء الطبيعة - سافاري - فانتازيا)جاءوا من الواديأحمد خالد توفيقجاءوا من وادي عبقر، وكلهم يحفظون شعرًا أملاه عليهم الجن، وأنشدوه في عالمنا فحسب الناس أنه من تأليفهم. تفرقوا في أرجاء الأرض وتباينت ألسنتهم، لكنهم من آن لآخر يعودون للوادي كي يتزودوا بالقري ...  Show more

‏Berlin-based writer Wael Eskander has been attending pro-Palestine rallies in Germany amid a vicious crackdown on support for the Palestinian cause (or in this case, opposition to a genocide...) We basically have one question for him: what the hell is going on over there? If you ...  Show more