I Saw The Best Minds of My Generation Destroy...

In this episode, Ayman is joined by Dara Eilo. Dara is an Assyrian activist and human rights advocate who has been involved in organising activities in Syria and Lebanon for the past decade and a half. Our conversation focused on the events that have taken place in Northern Syria ...  Show more

Today’s episode, the first for 2026, is a very very special one. I sit and talk with the Palestinian writer Tarek Baconi, who recently released a book entitled Fire In Every Direction. The book is a memoir that tracks Baconi’s upbringing as a queer Palestinian in Amman, Jordan, a ...  Show more

We’ve been gone for a while. To be honest, there was a lot happening in the world, and more specifically in our hometown of Beirut. We spent the last month coping with the aftermath of the Beirut blast. In this episode we talk about what the last month and a half has been like, h ...  Show more

Loving Lebanon is one thing; living there is another. Generation after generation, surviving in the homeland sometimes costs too much.This essay was written and read by Zahra Hankir, and it was originally published in Guernica. The episode was produced by Alex Atack with support ...  Show more

hi besites <3

are we shocked i had a week off...no. anyway im back :)

the first part of the episode is literally a trauma dump and then we get into all the random things your brain won't let you forget....like ever. \

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 I remain out on my annual trip to Europe, so I am taking a look back at some episodes from the past.  Today I bring you a two for one episode featuring a short sermon on “business development” followed by all things bad mood.  Mainly when we feel them taking over how we can o ...