Makdisi Street

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Makdisi Street episodes

March 08, 2024 "There is so much love in Palestine" w/ Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
The brothers talk with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (link) about life under occupation in East Jerusalem, the scattering and reconstitution of Palestinian bodies and Palestine itself, and the affirmation of life and love that lie at the heart of the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

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Date of recording: March 6, 2024

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1 hr 38 min
February 28, 2024 "The world has been lied to" w/ Chris Gunness
The brothers interview Chris Gunness (@MyanmarAProject), former chief spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), about journalistic coverage and distortion, the shaping of representation of Palestine, the work of the Agency, the moral responsibility of those funding it, and how calumnies spread by Zionist organizations about its workers provided a pretext for Western countries to cut their support.

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Date of recording: Feb 26, 2024

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1 hr 41 min
February 21, 2024 "Every single Palestinian is traumatized" w/ Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
The brothers welcome the Palestinian educator, political intellectual, and activist Dr. Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) to discuss the political horizons after the trauma of Gaza, as well as the pitfalls of the so-called peace process, Oslo, the PLO vs PA, and moves to reform the PLO for the path to true liberation and self-determination.

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Date of recording: Feb 20, 2024

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1 hr 50 min
February 17, 2024 "The purpose of lawfare is to distract us" w/ Dima Khalidi
The brothers welcome Dima Khalidi, founder and director of Palestine Legal (@pal_legal), to the podcast to talk about the institutionalized Zionist assault on academic freedom and free speech in the United States as well as the convergence between the Zionist suppression of Palestinian rights advocacy on the one hand and right-wing reaction against the diversification of the university system in the US.

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Date of recording: Feb 15, 2024

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1 hr 17 min
February 07, 2024 "They carried a memory in their head" w/ Dr. Salman Abu Sitta
The brothers welcome to the show the preeminent scholar and Nakba survivor Dr. Salman Abu Sitta to discuss his personal journey after 1948, the relative simplicity of implementing UN resolution 194 for Palestinians to return to their lands, and his high hopes for younger generations.

Read his article, "I could have been one of those who broke through the siege on October 7" https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/i-could-have-been-one-of-those-who-broke-through-the-siege-on-october-7/

Check out the Palestine Land Society https://www.plands.org/en/home

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Date of recording: Feb 5, 2024

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1 hr 43 min
January 30, 2024 "The ground zero of a liberated world is Palestine" w/ Robin DG Kelley
The brothers invite the American historian Robin DG Kelley to the show to discuss the status and visibility of Palestine in Black American political culture from the 1940s through MLK and Malcolm X to Black Lives Matter and the present--and the ways in which Palestine remains one of the keys to a liberated world.

Date of recording: Jan 29, 2024.

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1 hr 32 min
January 24, 2024 "The murder of our colleagues has to stop" w/ Jeremy Scahill
The brothers welcome the investigative journalist, Intercept Senior Correspondent and Intercepted podcast host Jeremy Scahill (@jeremyscahill) to discuss the parameters of the media coverage of the genocide in Gaza and to reflect on the patterns, structures and limitations of Western corporate media as well as the growing alternatives to it.

Date of recording: Jan 23, 2024.

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1 hr 50 min
January 17, 2024 "To think about Palestine is to be human"
(Note: We are considering launching a Patreon feed to help defray the costs of producing this show, whereby for a low monthly rate, supporters will get access to different kinds of bonus content: a monthly Q&A, reposting of episodes hosts do with other podcasts, episodes featuring a single host interviewing guests, etc. We would love your feedback about this. Please get in touch with the show either through Twitter or email with any ideas for potential bonus content)

The brothers provide an assessment of where things stand after 100 days of Israel's war on Gaza, the horror being suffered by the people in Gaza, as well as the forms that resistance takes and the paths toward an outline of liberation.

Date of recording: Jan 16, 2024.

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1 hr 19 min
January 09, 2024 "Legitimacy does, in the end, prevail" w/ Richard Falk
The brothers talk with the distinguished legal scholar Richard Falk about the possible political, legal, and moral consequences of the International Court of Justice case brought by South Africa against Israel on the charge of genocide.

Date of recording: January 9, 2024.

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1 hr 39 min
January 02, 2024 "I truly hope this is our year" w/ Diana Buttu
The brothers welcome Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu (@dianabuttu) to the show to provide a broader political context for the crisis in Gaza, including the growing contradictions within Israeli politics, the struggle for hegemony within Palestinian politics, the legacy and possible future role of the PLO, and the legal and political consequences of the war in (and on) Gaza. The conversation also offers perspective on the so-called peace process of the late 1990s and early 2000s, in which Diana was involved, and the parameters in which we can start to imagine possible resolutions of this conflict.

Date of recording: January 2, 2024.

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2 hr 3 min