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The Fire These Times is a podcast by Lebanese writer and researcher Elia Ayoub and friends connecting academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old.”
It is a part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support: https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery
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For episode 208, Elia and Dana talk about Zahrani Mamdani's victory and what it could mean for all of us.What we got into, in no particular order:Dana seeing Mamdani win as a Muslim-American (and Arab/Palestinian) who grew up in the aftermath of 9/11 / Mamdani’s Arabic-language campaign video (in Syrian Arabic - thank you Rama - except when talking to the cat, when he switched to Egyptian Arabic for some reason) and him saying أنا منكم واليكم at his victory speechElia seeing Mamdani win as an Arab who’s never been to New York City but still felt the impact of the War on Terror growing up in LebanonBoth Elia and Dana being Mamdani’s age and how that’s f-ed upHow Mamdani navigated questions about Israel / why we need to be better at making the our opponents face their own contradictions instead of falling in their trapThe Far Right is not inevitable. It can be stopped. Billionaires are not inevitable. They can be stopped.Parallels to the UK with Zack Polanski and the rise of the Green PartyMentions Mamdani Created a Left-Liberal Coalition on Israel/Palestine by Peter BeinartThe Far Right is Not Inevitable | The Fire These Times with Aurelien Mondon (ep. 163)The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.If you're not a supporter yet, please consider doing so with only $5 a month on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryFor more:The Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteDana is on Bluesky Elia is on Bluesky and InstagramTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Dana El Kurd (host), Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics)
In this collaboration episode, host israa’ is joined with Jordan and Prince from The Dugout Podcast and Dr. Mohamed Abdou. We got together to talk about Malcolm X, his evolution over time, his commitment to the below, and the role and impact of Islam on his journey towards collective liberation. Along the way, we talk about Malcolm’s impact on our lives and our politics and share insights on how we think Malcolm would be showing up today. 00:00 Introduction and Host Introductions01:45 Personal Connections to Malcolm X04:52 Malcolm X's Influence and Evolution08:48 Reflections on Malcolm X's Teachings11:31 Malcolm X's Legacy and Modern Relevance19:39 Organizational Structures and Revolutionary Responsibility29:19 Global Impact and Pan-Africanism46:17 Evolving Governance and Lessons from the Zapatistas48:08 Exploring Malcolm X's Intersectional Analysis48:47 Malcolm X and James Baldwin: A Shared Journey50:45 Decolonization and Internationalism52:30 Contextualizing Malcolm X's Strategies54:34 Malcolm X's Methodology and Ethics58:38 Malcolm X's Legacy and Modern Implications01:18:09 The Role of Spirituality and Self-Critique01:29:20 Final Reflections on Malcolm X's InfluenceMohamed :Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a Muslim anarchist scholar and organizer. He's a student of the muqawama (the resistance) and author of Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). His work centers on Palestinian, Indigenous, Black, and people of colour liberation, and draws on the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, as well as his participation in the Egyptian uprisings of 2011. substack: https://drmohamedabdou.substack.com/website: mabdou.net. Twitter: @minuetinGmajor Instagram: @slightlydriftingisraa’ :israa’ (they/them) is an activist scholar in a committed relationship with collective liberation. They are part of From the Periphery Media collective where they are hosts of The Mutual Aid Podcast, The Fire of these Times, and From the Periphery Podcast. They’re working towards building a world where all worlds fit through their activism and scholarship.israa’ is on Bluesky and IGDugoutThe Dugout is a Black anarchist podcast rooted in political education, decolonial thought/praxis, and deep community study. We tell stories, break down systems, and honor the voices of those building liberation from below. From interviews with Black Panthers and movement elders to media critiques and abolitionist strategy, each episode is a living contribution to Black radical traditions.Stay connected with The Dugout! Follow us for updates, exclusive content, and more:🔗OUR WEBSITE: https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dugoutpodcast/🔗 Substack: https://tdugout.substack.com/ 🔗YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedugoutpod🔗 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheDugoutPod🔗 OUR LINKS: https://bio.site/thedugoutpodcast🔗 Watch Prince Shakur on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMgrSHWLLU4U_FnJ1u10UgHow to Support Our Work:Patreon: You’ll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join our monthly hangouts, and more.Donations: https://fromtheperiphery.com/donate/Check out our merch: https://fromtheperiphery.com/shop/Credits:israa' (host, producer), Elia Ayoub (episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
For episode 206, Dana El Kurd is joined by Pablo Abufom, translator, scientist, and organizer with the Coordinadora Por Palestina in Chile. We talk about the largest Palestinian diaspora population outside the Middle East, the limits of ethnic and national affinities, and what it means to organize against the backdrop of American hegemony. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.If you're not a supporter yet, please consider doing so with only $5 a month on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryFor more:The Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Dana El Kurd (host), Elia Ayoub (producer, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
Daniel joins Elia from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto to talk about Gaza.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.If you're not a supporter yet, please consider doing so with only $5 a month on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryRead the two relevant pieces that informed this chat:Daniel's: A Prayer Drifts to a NestElia's: Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and HopeFor more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon and blogs at Hauntologies.net Daniel Voskoboynik is on Bluesky and blogs at The Ecology of UsThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design), Daniel Voskoboynik (host), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
Guest host Abdulla Moaswes, a Palestinian scholar and old buddy of mine, is joined by two scholars of Kashmir, Ather Zia and Hafsa Kanjwal to talk about Kashmir. It’s a long episode, but that’s because we wanted to make sure to present Kashmir’s history on its own terms, a Kashmir perspective that does not center Pakistan and certainly not India (or China). This is part 3 of the Kashmir Question series. The full version is available on Patreon.For much of the last 3 decades, Kashmir has been among the most militarised places on Earth, with its territory divided between the three nuclear-armed states of India, Pakistan, and China. Earlier this year, events in the region acted as a prelude to an armed confrontation between India and Pakistan, which the former used as an opportunity to more deeply entrench an emergent settler colonial form of rule in the territory. Many view the Kashmir question as simply a territorial dispute between these three states, but as this podcast series will demonstrate, the Kashmir question is one about colonial occupation and anticolonial resistance. In this podcast series, Hafsa, Ather and Abdulla first outline the origins of the Kashmir crisis, explaining how the region came to be partitioned as a result of British and Indian colonialism. They contextualise Kashmir’s colonisation within the project of Indian statebuilding, as well as the territory’s relevance to regional geopolitics. In part 2, they discuss Kashmiri resistance over the decades, including the events that led to and comprised the Kashmir Intifada that broke out in the late 1980s. The third and final episode consists of an assessment of Kashmir’s current status and the guests’ outlook for the future. Ather Zia is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley as well as a poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, PennsylvaniaAbdulla Moaswes is a Palestinian writer, researcher, educator and translator.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.If you're not a supporter yet, please consider doing so with only $5 a month on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryFor more:Kashmir LitElia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon and blogs at Hauntologies.net Abdulla Moaswes is on BlueskyAther Zia has a websiteHafsa Kanjwal has a websiteThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Abdulla Moaswes (host), Elia Ayoub (producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
Guest host Abdulla Moaswes, a Palestinian scholar and old buddy of mine, is joined by two scholars of Kashmir, Ather Zia and Hafsa Kanjwal to talk about Kashmir. It’s a long episode, but that’s because we wanted to make sure to present Kashmir’s history on its own terms, a Kashmir perspective that does not center Pakistan and certainly not India (or China). This is part 2 of the Kashmir Question series. The full version is already available on Patreon.For much of the last 3 decades, Kashmir has been among the most militarised places on Earth, with its territory divided between the three nuclear-armed states of India, Pakistan, and China. Earlier this year, events in the region acted as a prelude to an armed confrontation between India and Pakistan, which the former used as an opportunity to more deeply entrench an emergent settler colonial form of rule in the territory. Many view the Kashmir question as simply a territorial dispute between these three states, but as this podcast series will demonstrate, the Kashmir question is one about colonial occupation and anticolonial resistance. In this podcast series, Hafsa, Ather and Abdulla first outline the origins of the Kashmir crisis, explaining how the region came to be partitioned as a result of British and Indian colonialism. They contextualise Kashmir’s colonisation within the project of Indian statebuilding, as well as the territory’s relevance to regional geopolitics. In part 2, they discuss Kashmiri resistance over the decades, including the events that led to and comprised the Kashmir Intifada that broke out in the late 1980s. The third and final episode consists of an assessment of Kashmir’s current status and the guests’ outlook for the future. Ather Zia is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley as well as a poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, PennsylvaniaAbdulla Moaswes is a Palestinian writer, researcher, educator and translator.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.If you're not a supporter yet, please consider doing so with only $5 a month on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryFor more:Kashmir LitElia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon and blogs at Hauntologies.net Abdulla Moaswes is on BlueskyAther Zia has a websiteHafsa Kanjwal has a websiteThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Abdulla Moaswes (host), Elia Ayoub (producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
Guest host Abdulla Moaswes, a Palestinian scholar and old buddy of mine, is joined by two scholars of Kashmir, Ather Zia and Hafsa Kanjwal to talk about Kashmir. It’s a long episode, but that’s because we wanted to make sure to present Kashmir’s history on its own terms, a Kashmir perspective that does not center Pakistan and certainly not India (or China). This is part 1 of the Kashmir Question series. The full version is already available on Patreon.For much of the last 3 decades, Kashmir has been among the most militarised places on Earth, with its territory divided between the three nuclear-armed states of India, Pakistan, and China. Earlier this year, events in the region acted as a prelude to an armed confrontation between India and Pakistan, which the former used as an opportunity to more deeply entrench an emergent settler colonial form of rule in the territory. Many view the Kashmir question as simply a territorial dispute between these three states, but as this podcast series will demonstrate, the Kashmir question is one about colonial occupation and anticolonial resistance. In this podcast series, Hafsa, Ather and Abdulla first outline the origins of the Kashmir crisis, explaining how the region came to be partitioned as a result of British and Indian colonialism. They contextualise Kashmir’s colonisation within the project of Indian statebuilding, as well as the territory’s relevance to regional geopolitics. In part 2, they discuss Kashmiri resistance over the decades, including the events that led to and comprised the Kashmir Intifada that broke out in the late 1980s. The third and final episode consists of an assessment of Kashmir’s current status and the guests’ outlook for the future. Ather Zia is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley as well as a poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. Hafsa Kanjwal is an associate professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, PennsylvaniaAbdulla Moaswes is a Palestinian writer, researcher, educator and translator.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.If you're not a supporter yet, please consider doing so with only $5 a month on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryFor more:Kashmir LitElia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon and blogs at Hauntologies.net Abdulla Moaswes is on BlueskyAther Zia has a websiteHafsa Kanjwal has a websiteThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Abdulla Moaswes (host), Elia Ayoub (producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
In this special episode of The Fire These Times, Elia is joined by four members of the From The Periphery media collective to talk about the ongoing famine in Gaza, Israel's genocide and the world's complicity. Despite the obviously horrific nature of this topic, we insisted on not giving in to despair. The génocidaires cannot win.The five participants connected to the Gaza genocide through their own respective experiences: Leila Al-Shami (Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution) is a Syrian-British activist and writer who lived in Gaza for three years; Karena Avedissian (Obscuristan) is an Armenian scholar who continues to reflect on the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the role of Genocide studies today; Daniel Voskoboynik (Hidah: Jewish Counter-Colonial Thoughts) joined us from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto, site of one of the most infamous episodes of the Holocaust; israa' (The Mutual Aid Podcast) has been involved in Gaza mutual aid (click here for the link); and finally Elia is a Palestinian-Lebanese whose grandfather was a Palestinian refugee.They spoke about pushing back against despair, and the importance of rejecting Israel's genocide as the new normal. It got very personal at times.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.If you're not a supporter yet, please consider doing so with only $5 a month on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryFor more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon and blogs at Hauntologies.net Leila Al-Shami is on Bluesky, Mastodon and blogs hereKarena Avedissian is on Blueskyisraa is on BlueskyDaniel Voskoboynik is on Bluesky and blogs at The Ecology of UsThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Leila Al Shami (host), israa (host), Daniel Voskoboynik (host), Karena Avedissian (host), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Dana & Elia to talk about their piece "the rise of end times fascism." Naomi Klein is the author of Doppelganger, On Fire, How to Change Everything, the Shock Doctrine & No Logo, among others. Astra Taylor is the co-founder of the Debt Collector and is the author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, among others.The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.Support FTP on Patreon!Referenced:Sitt Marie Rose by Etel AdnanCool People Who Did Cool Stuff podcast (on all podcast apps)Resistance is Fertile: The Star Trek Anarchist Podcast (on all podcast apps)The Book of Records For more:Naomi Klein has a website, a newsletter, and is on Instagram and BlueskyAstra Taylor has a website and is on BlueskyElia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net Dana El Kurd is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Dana El Kurd (host), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
“Fascism isn’t just about power—it’s about controlling the stories we tell. It warps narratives to justify oppression, trapping us in cycles of dominance and despair. But stories can also resist, break those cycles, and open the door to something new.“ This is how YouTuber and hardcore Trekkie Jessie Gender starts her video essay “The Stories Fascism Fears Most“ which we highly recommend. A few weeks ago, Elia Ayoub sat down with Jessie to talk about it. They got into their love of Star Trek - because of course they did - as well as other franchises like The Matrix. This is a special crossover episode between The Fire These Times and Resistance is Fertile, a Star Trek Anarchist podcast by Elia and carla joy bergman. Show NotesSupport the making of RIF on PatreonRIF BlueSky: @thestartrekpod.bsky.socialRIF IGElia’s workcarla’s workJessie Gender’s YouTube channelMusic by NinePulseTech by Chris BergmanRIF is co-produced by carla and EliaThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are usually done by Antidote Zine and published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive. However, this time it's the RIF gang that did the transcripts. Thanks for listening!
For episode 198, Elia Ayoub is joined by Venezuelan researcher - and old friend - Laura Vidal to talk about, and around, Venezuela. We got into why Venezuelans flee the Maduro regime, how Venezuela(ns) is often covered, and the broader discourse battles that may or may not include people who still think Maduro is a passionate defenders of the Palestinians (pause for laughter).Laura was actually one of the first guests of TFTT back in the ancient year of 2020 when Elia was still learning how to use the Audacity sound editing software. The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.To get early access to our episodes as well as other perks (monthly hangout, movie club, exclusive content and so on) you can join our patreon on Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery For more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net Laura Vidal is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, IG and YouTube and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
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 Elia Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami today is Lebanese-French political researcher and academic Ziad Majed, a friend and comrade of Kassir, to talk about his legacy in the two decades that have passed given how much has changed since for Lebanon, Palestine and of course Syria.This is a special cross-over episode between The Fire These Times (TFTT) and Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution (STIR). We are both part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support all of our projects please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryResources:Dans la tête de Bachar al-Assad by Ziad Majed, Farouk Mardam-Bey and Subhi HadidiSyrian melancholy in Lebanon’s revolution by Elia Ayoub and Dara Foi’ElleThe 2020 TFTT episode (26) with Ziad MajedSamir Kassir:Beirut (History)Being Arab/The Arab MalaiseArchives of Samir Kassir in the Revue d'études palestiniennes (French)Credits and More:Leila Al Shami (Host). More: Bluesky, Mastodon and her BlogElia Ayoub (Host, Producer). More: Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and his NewsletterSTIR is also on BlueskyTFTT is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a websiteFrom The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteHisham Rifai (Illustration)Omar Offendum and Sami Matar (Music)
Palestinian journalist Maram Humaid joins us from Gaza to talk about the many layers of Israel’s genocide, the everyday of those trying to survive it. This is part 2 of the episode with Elia Ayoub and israa'. It is already available in full on Patreon for free.More:Maram’s articles on Al JazeeraGaza Mutual AidThis American Life episode with Maram’s daughter Banias “The Narrator, Episode 849” December 13, 2024Elia’s piece on Hauntologies: Why I Cannot Mourn GazaThe Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.For more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net israa' is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteCredits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design), israa' (host), Ayman Makarem (producer, sound editor), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
1Palestinian journalist Maram Humaid joins us from Gaza to talk about the many layers of Israel’s genocide, the everyday of those trying to survive it. This is part 1 of the episode with Elia Ayoub and israa'. It is already available in full on Patreon for free.More:Maram’s articles on Al JazeeraGaza Mutual AidThis American Life episode with Maram’s daughter Banias “The Narrator, Episode 849” December 13, 2024Elia’s piece on Hauntologies: Why I Cannot Mourn GazaThe Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.For more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net israa' is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteCredits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design), israa' (host), Ayman Makarem (producer, sound editor), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
For episode 194, Elia Ayoub is joined by Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Goldberg is among the most vocal Israeli historians of the Holocaust to have called Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. In 2024, he wrote a paper for the Journal of Genocide Research on the question of intent, which we explored in part 1. In this episode, the second part of their conversation, they get into the crisis within Holocaust and Genocide Studies since the start of the Gaza genocide. In the last segment, they spoke about “The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History”, which Goldberg co-edited, and argue for the necessity of new horizons in our imaginaries. The full, uninterrupted episode is available for free on Patreon. Articles by Goldberg: Le Monde: 'What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore'Led By Donkeys: Yes it’s a genocideHaaretz: There's No Auschwitz in Gaza. But It's Still Genocide. Books by Goldberg:The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (with Bashir Bashir)Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the HolocaustMarking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global AgeOther Links:Elia’s newsletter Hauntologies includes articles on “the Ghosts of Israel’s Futures” Lee Mordechai: Witnessing the Gaza War The Fire These Times: The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory with Daniel Voskoboynik The Fire These Times: Remembering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd Read Abubaker Abed’s “The Unbearable Pain of Leaving Gaza”Follow Bisan Owda on Instagram For more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net The Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteCredits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
For episode 193, Elia Ayoub is joined by Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Goldberg is among the most vocal Israeli historians of the Holocaust to have called Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. In 2024, he wrote a paper for the Journal of Genocide Research exploring how the question of ‘intent’ is used in discussions around genocides, including the Gaza one. They also get into how genocide is often preceded by claims of self-defense. The combined two-parter episode is already available on our Patreon for free. Articles by Goldberg: Amos Goldberg: 'What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore'Led By Donkeys: Yes it’s a genocideHaaretz: There's No Auschwitz in Gaza. But It's Still Genocide. Books by Goldberg:The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (with Bashir Bashir)Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the HolocaustMarking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global AgeOther Links:Elia’s newsletter Hauntologies includes articles on “the Ghosts of Israel’s Futures” Lee Mordechai: Witnessing the Gaza War The Fire These Times: The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory with Daniel Voskoboynik The Fire These Times: Remembering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd Read Abubaker Abed’s “The Unbearable Pain of Leaving Gaza”Follow Bisan Owda on Instagram The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.To support our work and get access to all kinds of perks, please join our Patreon on Patreon.com/fromtheperipheryFor more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net The Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteCredits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
This is part 2 of the episode. Part 1 was released a few days ago, and you can also listen to the full version for free on our Patreon.Presented by guest hosts Michelle and Daniel, Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration brings together eight individuals active in migration struggles around the world (Mexico, Haiti, U.S., and Europe) for a discussion on root causes of migration, current and past repression, and, most importantly, impactful approaches to solidarity and resistance. Participants are:Michelle (she/her) - Filmmaker/writer, free clinic herbalist/nutritionist, teacher, and activist based in California. www.underexposedfilms.comDaniel (any pronouns) - A member of the solidarity movement at the Polish-Belarussian border.https://nobordersteam.noblogs.org/ Fundraising: https://zrzutka.pl/rab8e2Vivianne (she/her) - Activist and Social Work student. Community worker within the Haitian community in México. Haitian Bridge Alliance: https://haitianbridgealliance.orgDiana (she/her) - Mexican Psychologist and activist. Working at Refugee Health Alliance: https://www.instagram.com/alianza_para_la_saludEdin/Andrea (they/them): Independent artist and rebel. Collaborator with Enclave Rabia Caracol and its various projects. Enclave Caracol: https://www.instagram.com/enclavecaracolAlso: https://www.instagram.com/tijuanacomidanobombasMarie (she/her) - Activist from Germany within the noborder-movement and civil SAR (Search and Rescue). Links: https://resqship.org/ + https://alarmphone.org/ + https://captainsupport.netAnne (she/her) - Activist of the Seebrücke and the #FreeHomayoun campaign, based in Switzerland. https://www.freehomayoun.orgJuan Carlos (he/him) - (Translating for Vivianne.) Director of "Tijuana: Ciudad de Migrantes". https://youtu.be/kGjR8_ZVfnA?si=Uk3Aocc56FgJSmxQSome ways to act in solidarity with migrants in the U.S.(from an outside source): https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/11/eight-things-you-can-do-to-stop-iceThe Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.To support our work and get access to all kinds of perks, please join our Patreon on Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery For more:Michelle is on InstagramThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteCredits:Michelle (host, producer, sound editor), Daniel (host, co-producer, co-editor), Elia Ayoub (episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics). Episode photo taken by Michelle.
This is part 1 of the episode. Part 2 will be released in a few days, but you can listen to the full version for free on our Patreon.Presented by guest hosts Michelle and Daniel, Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration brings together eight individuals active in migration struggles around the world (Mexico, Haiti, U.S., and Europe) for a discussion on root causes of migration, current and past repression, and, most importantly, impactful approaches to solidarity and resistance. Participants are:Michelle (she/her) - Filmmaker/writer, free clinic herbalist/nutritionist, teacher, and activist based in California. www.underexposedfilms.comDaniel (any pronouns) - A member of the solidarity movement at the Polish-Belarussian border.https://nobordersteam.noblogs.org/ Fundraising: https://zrzutka.pl/rab8e2Vivianne (she/her) - Activist and Social Work student. Community worker within the Haitian community in México. Haitian Bridge Alliance: https://haitianbridgealliance.orgDiana (she/her) - Mexican Psychologist and activist. Working at Refugee Health Alliance: https://www.instagram.com/alianza_para_la_saludEdin/Andrea (they/them): Independent artist and rebel. Collaborator with Enclave Rabia Caracol and its various projects. Enclave Caracol: https://www.instagram.com/enclavecaracolAlso: https://www.instagram.com/tijuanacomidanobombasMarie (she/her) - Activist from Germany within the noborder-movement and civil SAR (Search and Rescue). Links: https://resqship.org/ + https://alarmphone.org/ + https://captainsupport.netAnne (she/her) - Activist of the Seebrücke and the #FreeHomayoun campaign, based in Switzerland. https://www.freehomayoun.orgJuan Carlos (he/him) - (Translating for Vivianne.) Director of "Tijuana: Ciudad de Migrantes". https://youtu.be/kGjR8_ZVfnA?si=Uk3Aocc56FgJSmxQSome ways to act in solidarity with migrants in the U.S.(from an outside source): https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/11/eight-things-you-can-do-to-stop-iceThe Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.To support our work and get access to all kinds of perks, please join our Patreon on Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery For more:Michelle is on InstagramThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteCredits:Michelle (host, producer, sound editor), Daniel (host, co-producer, co-editor), Elia Ayoub (episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics). Episode photo taken by Michelle.
We got a new podcast! We're happy to announce that Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution (STIR) is now out on Patreon and wherever you listen to podcasts. In this episode, Leila Al-Shami (Burning Country) and Elia Ayoub (The Fire These Times, Hauntologies) introduce themselves and the podcast.What is STIR about? From the Assad regime to the Arab Spring and beyond, we will dive into questions of reconstruction, prisoners, the forcibly disappeared, transitional justice, minority rights, women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental politics, culture and more.STIR is part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support all of our projects please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperipherySTIR is also on Bluesky!Credits and More:Leila Al Shami (Host, Lead Researcher). More: Bluesky, Mastodon and her BlogElia Ayoub (Host, Producer). More: Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and his NewsletterHisham Rifai (Illustration)Omar Offendum and Sami Matar (Music)
Elia Ayoub and Lebanese journalist Justin Salhani have one thing in common: their parents lived through the Lebanon wars (1975-1990). Claude Salhani was a well-known photojournalist United Press International and Reuters. The photo featured in this episode shows him in the middle, injured after an Israeli strike on Beirut in 1982. We also talked about a recent gallery of Claude’s photographs published by Al Jazeera.For this episode of The Fire These Times, and to close off our discussions on the Lebanon wars - check our the recent episode Elia did with Ayman Makarem on our sister podcast ‘From The Periphery Podcast’ - we thought it meaningful to add one more layer: if the wars aren’t really over, where does that leave us, the ‘children of the children of war’? The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.To support our work and get access to all kinds of perks, please join our Patreon on Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery Announcement: Justin Salhani is joining the FTP fam! He will be mostly contributing to the From The Periphery Podcast as our Beirut-based correspondent focusing on regional affairs. For more:Elia Ayoub is on Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram and blogs at Hauntologies.net Justin Salhani is on Bluesky and InstagramThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky, Instagram and has a website From The Periphery is on Patreon, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, and has a websiteTranscriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Rap and Revenge (Music), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Hisham Rifai (FTP theme design) and Molly Crabapple (FTP team profile pics).
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