A Report from the West Bank, Then an Update on Syria
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On today’s show, host Esty Dinur speaks with activist and longtime friend of the show Cassandra Dixon who just returned from the West Bank. They discuss the settler outposts in the area and violence facing Palestinians. They also discuss the realties facing olive farmers and shepherds in Masafer Yatta and how listeners can help.
On the second half of the show, Dinur is joined by professor Mohamad Bazzi to discuss the ousting of Bashar al-Assad and what that means for Syrians. Bazzi is the director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor at New York University. He offers insight into the life under the Assad regime and the looming interventions of other foreign powers.
The musical interlude on today’s show is If I Must Die from Ceol Don Phalaistín by Sive.
‘If I Must Die’ is a poem by Palestinian writer and professor Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in December 2023. Alareer appeared on WORT in October 2023.
Feature image from Cassandra Dixon
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