Give and Take

‏Ibtihal Reda Mahmood, editor and translator of the anthology Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan joins us to talk both about the Jordanian literary landscape from the 1940s to now, as well as her personal relationship with Jordanian writers and books. We tal ...  Show more

‏The Key is a new online publication dedicated to covering Palestine as “the core issue at the heart of the modern world.” We’re joined by its editor-in-chief, Sara Yasin, former managing editor of the LA Times. The Key is an outgrowth of PalFest, an annual traveling literature f ...  Show more

‏Send us Fan MailIn 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 Ali Taha.Raeda talks to us about the impact of the Palestinian struggle on her life and shares her journe ...  Show more

‏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

‏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

‏It is the finale of this series, telling about years of the Gazan epic, from 2000 until the 7th of October 2023. From the second intifada through the 16 year unprecedented inhumane siege against international laws. The story of Rachel Corrie, the American activist martyred in de ...  Show more