12/Independent media versus the Lebanese olig...

For episode 213, I talk about the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, how we got here, and what this means for both Iran and Lebanon. Also: Israel's ideological opposition to the concept of accountability, Israel's decreasing popularity in the US, the Ayatollah's brutal reign, and fi ...  Show more

In which I read my Hauntologies essay "Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation" (00:00 to 09:50) and reflect on it (09:50-36:49).Support: You can support my work with ⁠a one-off or monthly donation on Ko-fi.⁠For more:The Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram⁠ and has a ...  Show more

We’re currently on a season break and will be back with new episodes in March. In the meantime, I wanted to share my conversation with journalist and author Kim Ghattas. Kim, who is half Lebanese and half Dutch, shot to prominence as a BBC reporter, first covering Lebanon and the ...  Show more

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Sami Atallah, the founding director of The Policy Initiative in Beirut. They talk about Lebanon's three year old financial crisis, its struggle with political accountability, and where change might come from. Then, Jon continues the conversatio ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 1:00 Day-to-day 13:51 No candidate 19:11 Division 25:02 Kataeb 33:49 Secularism 56:36 Hezbollah 1:19:35 Women-led 1:30:33 Personal reasons We're with Jana Massoud and Ghiya El Assaad for Episode 304 of The Beirut Banyan. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/M0C8Jweks0w We ...  Show more

Learn about Arab Marxism, radical patriarchal politics, and Lebanon’s political economy over the last century in this conversation with professor Fadi Bardawil from Duke University. Starting with his book “Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipati ...