The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On w/ Zia...

Early this year, I had Nicole Bedera, Aydin and Ed on to talk about the resistance against ICE that was happening in their town of Minneapolis and that was making headlines all around the world. Since then, enough time has passed for today’s guest, mags, to have written a powerfu ...  Show more

One thing you’ll get from this episode - and from reading Abdelrahman’s memoir Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming recounting his six years in Sisi’s nightmarish prisons in Egypt - is a lot of empathy, not just towards what he went through, what others like Ayman M ...  Show more

It's been 20 years since the Assad regime assassinated Samir Kassir, the Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian historian, journalist and writer in Beirut on June 2nd 2005. Joining us today is Lebanese-French political researcher and academic Ziad Majed, a friend and comrade of Kassir, to t ...  Show more

Discussion on Hezbollah, the Syrian regime and political impunity in Lebanon begins at 16:45. Nizar and Timour are joined this week by political researcher and commentator Ziad Majed to discuss the lack of accountability over political assassinations in Lebanon, the differences b ...  Show more

The discussion on Kamal Jumblatt begins at 13:39. In the third edition of our historical figures’ series, Nizar and Ben analyze the life and legacy of Kamal Jumblatt, the prominent Druze politician who was assassinated 42 years ago on March 16, 1977. An intellectual man of princi ...  Show more