08:00 — Golnar Nikpour is Associate Professor of modern Iranian history at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on the history of law, incarceration, revolution, and rights. She is the author of “The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran” (2024).

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08:00 — Golnar Nikpour is Associate Professor of modern Iranian history at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on the history of law, incarceration, revolution, and rights. She is the author of “The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran” (2024).

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08:00 — Antonia Juhasz is an independent journalist reporting on climate, energy and environmental justice.

33:00 — Shahrzad Mojab is Professor Emeritus in Education and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research explores the impact of war and violence on women, transnational feminism, and Marxist-feminism.

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08:00 — Kareem Chehayeb is a reporter for the Associated Press, reporting on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. He joins us from Beirut. Justin Salhani is a journalist who’s been reporting from Beirut since 2011. 

33:00 — Ashley Nowicki is a policy analyst at the American Economic Liberties Project. William McGee is a Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project.

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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

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08:00 — Trita Parsi is the co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

20:00 — Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World

33:00 — Parker Molloy is author of The Present Age newsletter; previously editor-at-large at Media Matters for America, writing about the role right-wing media played in the rise of Donald Trump

The post US and Israel’s War on Iran and Lebanon, Dynamics in the Gulf States; Plus, How is MAGA Reacting to the War? appeared first on KPFA.

08:00 — George Bisharat, Professor Emeritus at University of California College of Law, San Francisco. His legal scholarship focuses on Palestine, Israel, and U.S. policies toward the Middle East

33:00 — John Nichols is Executive Editor at the Nation

The post International Law and US and Israel’s War on Iran; Plus, Debriefing the War Powers Resolution Vote appeared first on KPFA.

08:00 — Kaveh Ehsani is an Associate Professor of International Studies at DePaul University.

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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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