Refaat Alareer's voice from the archives
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*Friend of the show Nora Barrows-Friedman collected some of Refaat's audio archive.* In a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018. Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza. Read more:
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Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror Dayan (pt.2)
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**A preview of the latest bonus episode: the with Dror Dayan about Germany's role in the Axis of Genocide. Subscribe on Patreon to access hundreds of bonus episodes and help support the show. Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on YouTube** is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Make sure to check out the first half of this conversation, posted on the main feed Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Tankie Group Therapy #30: They will never break them (or us)
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Lara Sheehi joins as our therapist with Jon Elmer(successfully pressured by your comments on the Day 467 Sit Rep), Nora, Mikey, Alex, and Joe. Hours before the ceasefire is set to go into effect, we debrief our worry, our awe and pride in the Palestinians, our rage at genocide, why we did this series of so-called "tankie therapy" and why some of us had to avoid it sometimes over the past 15 months. Will this be the last one? Watch the on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Tankie Group Therapy #29: No disclaimers necessary
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Two beloved members of the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Joe and Matteo) return after long absences to join Alex, Nora, and Sina to discuss some of the recent (not so very good) news. Watch the on our YouTube channel Check out Joe's essay, Consider supporting the show
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Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror Dayan (pt.1)
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is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Imperial Debris: From 1492 to the Gaza pier w/ Taylor Miller
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Alex Axina () returns as guest host to interview Taylor Miller about the meaning of Gaza "humanitarian pier" against the wider historical backdrop of genocidal settler colonialism. Check out Taylor's article, Consider supporting the podcast
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Tankie Group Therapy #28: Imperialism is the primary contradiction
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A reduced crew for Tankie Group Therapy featuring Nora, Alex, and Sina discussing the end of the Syrian Arab Republic and its wide-ranging consequences. Video edition coming soon! Consider supporting the show
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Chaos in the Levant: Fake ceasefire in Lebanon; hot war in Syria w/ Adnan Husain
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Adnan Husain Medieval European and Middle Eastern at Queen's University and co-host of , returns to discuss recent developments in the region. Watch the on The East is a Podcast Youtube channel or Adnan's (still under construction) personal channel (Coming soon!) Consider supporting the show
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"The settlers and the land will never be one" w/ Good Shepherd Collective
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A conversation with founders Bana Abu Zuluf and Cody O'Rourke. Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel "The Good Shepherd Collective was formed in Palestine in 2017 in response to the restrictive NGO system and its inability to meet the needs of the moment. GSC understands oppression as rooted in the systems and laws guiding civil formation and order. As such, we are an anti-zionist, anti-colonial, and, by definition, anti-capitalist organization. We advocate for justice through a process of decolonization that ushers in a future where the material resources and political...
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Tankie Group Therapy #27: Predict what you want, the precondition is liberation
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Actual therapist Lara Sheehi joins us with Justin, Sina, Mikey and Nora in the group. We talk about psychic intrusions, shame, the tricky ecosystem of the colonial assault on the mind, and setting the precondition as liberation. Watch the on the Anti-Empire Project
info_outline*Audio recording of a panel orgnized by friend of the show Frances Hasso. Video edition coming soon!*
Convened by Dr. Frances S. Hasso, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, as part of The Palestine Seminar at Duke University
https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/literary-gaza-hybrid
Speakers
“My Age is Thirty-five Years Old and Five Wars"
Basman Aldirawi
Basman Aldirawi (also Basman Derawi) is a Palestinian and Gazan, a refugee from Bi’r al-Saba`, and currently in Egypt due to the aggression on Gaza. He works as a physiotherapist at the Gaza Ministry of Health and since 2018 has been a member of the Gaza Poets Society, the first spoken word community in Gaza. He has contributed dozens of stories and poems to many online platforms and publications, including We Are Not Numbers (2019), Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (2022), and the We Are Not Numbers online platform that gives a voice to the victims of Israeli aggression in Gaza/Palestine.
"The Demon of Gaza"
Esmat Elhalaby
Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of transnational history at the University of Toronto. He works principally on the intellectual history of West and South Asia, particularly colonial and anti-colonial thought.
“The 5 Stages of Grief, According to a Palestinian”
Samah Serour Fadil
Samah Serour Fadil is an Afro-Palestinian writer, editor and translator. Her work has been featured at the Yale University Art Gallery, Fresno State University and The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, among others.
“Tent in the Sky”
Alaa Na`eem `Ali Al-Qatrawi:
Alaa Na`eem `Ali al-Qatrawi completed her PhD in 2022 in Arabic Literature and Criticism at the Islamic University in Gaza, focused on the poetry of Adonis. Her MA thesis at the Islamic University, which examined Ahmed Bakhit’s poetry, won the Award for Best MA thesis in the Humanities in 2015. Dr. Al-Qatrawi is an accomplished poet and short story and operetta writer, winning among others the Abdulaziz Al-Babtain Award for the best poetry collection in the category of young poets in 2022, first in the Union of Palestinian Writers Competition in 2015, first in the Ministry of Culture’s poetry competition among all Palestinian universities in 2013, first in short stories in the Arab world in the international competition organized by Chinese Books and Dar Fadaat Publishing House in Amman (2019), and first in the Letter to Jerusalem competition (2010). She works as an Arabic Language teacher in UNRWA schools at the elementary and secondary levels. She has previously worked as a linguist and screenwriter for UNRWA children’s programming. Dr. Alaa’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
Sponsor
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Co-Sponsor(s)
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program (AMES); History Department; Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC); Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program