Our guest in this episode of Middle East Talks is the Palestinian American academic Karam Dana, to talk about his new book To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States. Dana offers a thorough examination of how and why Palestinian voices were for long marginalized (and demonized!) in American political discourse, but he also argues that the Palestinian issue is increasingly taking center stage in struggles again the status quo, from college campuses to digital activism.

Guest: Karam Dana, the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research and the founding director of the American Muslim Research Institute at the University of Washington Bothell.

Interviewer: Khaled Ezzelarab, Associate Professor of Practice, Journalism and Mass Communication Department, and Director of the Middle East Studies Program, American University in Cairo

Researcher: Kate McMahon

Book: Dana, Karam. To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States. Columbia University Press, 2025.

Intro Music: Festival of Eid Joy by Adiiswanto, licensed via Pixabay Music

This podcast was produced with the help of Nourhan Amer, Nouran Elian, and Judi Yassin

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