Episode 257 – Iran's Protests Explained
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This week, Iranian historian and returning guest Navid Zarrinnal calls in to the show from Tehran via telephone amid Iran’s continued internet shutdown to elaborate on his recent dispatch for , “Iran’s Protests Explained: A Diary from Tehran.” Navid is professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, host of The Colony Archive, and working on his first monograph, “Secularisation, Mass Literacy and Education in Modern Iran." Navid gives us a timeline of events and shares his analysis, discussing key differences with previous waves of...
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Episode 256 – Prisoners for Palestine
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars introduce an interview with former Palestine Action UK prisoner and current Prisoners for Palestine campaigner Audrey Corno, who talks to Kumars about the criminalization of Palestine Action UK, now a proscribed terrorist organization in that country, and the rolling hunger and thirst strike undertaken by incarcerated former members still fighting the Israeli death machine. Audrey and Kumars also discuss the movement’s success in shutting down Elbit Systems factories in the United Kingdom as well as another recent victory by the imprisoned organizers,...
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Episode 255.5 – Homeland Security (free preview)
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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including the “Last Week in Lebanon” column by Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit, by subscribing on our for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you . This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Nick Estes. Nick is a member of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate nation, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the...
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Episode 255 – ¡Yanquis de mierda!
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña for an emergency update on the US attack against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and what could happen next. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on , author of , and a founding member of the (AISC). Alex, Roqayah, and Kumars break down the latest escalation by the Trump administration, the response from US media and Democrats, the outpouring of international...
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Episode 254.5 – America's Mayor (free preview)
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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah’s “Last Week in Lebanon” column, by subscribing on our for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you . Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by writer, organizer, poet, and returning guest Rasha Abdulhadi, author of several books including (2024). Rasha and Kumars look back on the...
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Episode 254 – Terms of Servitude
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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by returning guest-host Nora Barrows-Friedman and first-time guest Omar Zahzah to discuss Omar’s new book, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, out now from the Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. Omar is a writer, poet, organizer, and Assistant Professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University. He has organized with and the , among other groups, and his journalism has appeared in the ,...
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Episode 253 – Days of the Dead
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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on , author of , and a founding member of the new (AISC). Alex and Kumars spend the hour digging into for the AISC’s blog, “Unity or Submission? The Great Yankee Risk,” about the Trump administration’s escalating plans for regime change—or regime collapse—in Venezuela. Follow Alex on Twitter and find his latest long-form...
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Episode 252.5 – Resistance Mindset (free preview)
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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah’s new weekly column “Last Week in Lebanon,” by subscribing on our for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you . Kumars is off this week, so Roqayah is joined in Beirut by writer and video journalist Hadi Hoteit, war correspondent for Press TV and producer of “Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf” along with other...
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Episode 252 – R&D for the Devil
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Eliza Salamon, anti-Zionist Jewish organizer and recent alumna of Cornell University, whose direct ties to imperial violence she and her coauthor document in their released in collaboration with the organization . Read Eliza’s full report, published on the website , and visit to access all the resources you need to unmask complicity on your campus. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including Roqayah’s new weekly column “Last Week in Lebanon,” you can subscribe on our for as little as $5...
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Ep. 251 – To the Dispossessed of Lebanon and the World
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars share some life updates and break down the latest developments in Lebanon as the government ramps up its campaign to disarm the Lebanese resistance and Israel’s deadly violations of the November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah exceed the 4000 mark. They also discuss the relationship between Harekat Amal and Hezbollah as factions of the Lebanese resistance, the separation of powers in Lebanon’s model of governance, the military’s detention of journalist Laith Marouf, and more before previewing a clip from Kumars’s interview on The Colony Archive with friend...
info_outlineRoqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by returning guest-host Nora Barrows-Friedman and first-time guest Omar Zahzah to discuss Omar’s new book, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, out now from the Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.
Omar is a writer, poet, organizer, and Assistant Professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University. He has organized with Palestinian Youth Movement and the US Campaign for the Cultural and Academic Boycott of Israel, among other groups, and his journalism has appeared in the Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Palestine in America, and other outlets.
Nora is associate editor at the Electronic Intifada, author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine and cohost of the Electronic Intifada daily news roundup livestream on YouTube.
Omar, Nora, and Kumars discuss their experiences with union organizing and BDS, why academics should be freelance journalists, how Silicon Valley’s digital repression has escalated since Oct. 7, how Palestinian content creators are successfully navigating it, the end of Israel’s self-styled image as the “start-up nation,” and what Palestine reveals about the tech industry’s relationship to our world.
Follow Omar on Twitter @dromarzahzah, Nora @norabf and don’t forget to pick up a print or digital copy of Terms of Servitude from Seven Stories Press!
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