For episode 185, Elia Ayoub is joined by Ukrainian journalist and repeated guest Romeo Kokriatski to talk about the recent developments in Ukraine, especially in light of the Trump administration's open intentions to shift USA support from Ukraine to Russia, and what this means for Ukraine, Europe and the USA.

As this episode is time-sensitive we are releasing it on Patreon and publicly at the same time. Comments are for Patreons only.

The Fire These Times is a proud member of⁠ ⁠From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective⁠⁠. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) ⁠Mutual Aid Podcast⁠, ⁠Politically Depressed⁠, ⁠Obscuristan⁠, and ⁠Antidote Zine⁠.

How to Support: on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ or on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠. You’ll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join⁠ ⁠⁠⁠our monthly hangouts⁠⁠⁠⁠, and more.

For more:

• Elia Ayoub is on ⁠Bluesky⁠, Mastodon, ⁠Instagram⁠ and blogs at Hauntologies.net 

• Romeo Kokriatski is on ⁠Bluesky⁠, co-hosts the Ukraine Without Hype and Radio Free America podcasts, and is a Managing Editor of New Voice Ukraine.

• The Fire These Times is on Bluesky,⁠ IG⁠ and⁠ YouTube⁠ and has a⁠ ⁠website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

• From The Periphery is on⁠ ⁠Patreon⁠⁠, ⁠Bluesky⁠, ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠,⁠ Instagram⁠, and has a⁠ website⁠⁠

Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done by⁠ Antidote Zine⁠ and will be published on⁠ The Fire These Times' transcript archive⁠.

Credits:

Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design), Romeo Kokriatski (guest), ⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), ⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (original TFTT theme design), ⁠Hisham Rifai⁠⁠⁠ (FTP theme design), ⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP team profile pics), Elliott Miskovicz (sound editor, producer).

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti and israa abd elfattah.

⁠The Fire These Times⁠ by⁠ Elia Ayoub⁠ is licensed under⁠ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International⁠

On Feb 27, Abdullah Öcalan, the long-time jailed leader of the PKK (Kurdish Worker’s Party), released a statement that shocked many. In the statement he called for the PKK to lay down their arms, which could spell the end of the 40-year long armed struggle against the Turkish state, and for the creation of a legal, diplomatic framework to ensure inclusion, rights, and dignity for the Kurdish communities within a democratic Turkish nation. 

In this episode, Ayman Makarem, Israa, and Karena Avedissian are joined by Dîlan who provides a thorough overview of the present moment, situates it within the longer history of the Kurdish struggle, and explores analysis of what this all means - for Kurds and other communities across the WANA region.

As this episode is time-sensitive we are releasing it on Patreon and publicly at the same time.

Dîlan is a reluctant academic and tired organizer. She is interested in alternative historiographies, feminist methodologies, and memory. She considers herself an equal-opportunity hater regarding states and authoritarian power structures, and is a dedicated skeptic of reactionary tendencies in both organizing and academic spheres.

Links:

• https://wjas.org/en/the-foundation/
• https://nudemorg.com/support/
• https://rojavainformationcenter.org/donate/

The Fire These Times is a proud member of ⁠From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective⁠. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!) Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, and Antidote Zine.

How to Support: on ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ or on ⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠. You’ll get early access to all podcasts, exclusive audio and video episodes, an invitation to join ⁠⁠⁠our monthly hangouts⁠⁠⁠, and more.

For more:

• • Ayman Makarem is on Bluesky and Instagram
  • Karena Avedissian is on Bluesky
  • Israa is on Bluesky

• The Fire These Times is on IG and YouTube and has a ⁠website⁠ ⁠

• From The Periphery is on ⁠Patreon⁠, Bluesky, ⁠YouTube⁠, Instagram, and has a website⁠

Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done by Antidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.

Credits:

Ayman Makarem (host, producer, sound editor), Karena Avidissian (host), Israa (host), Dîlan (guest), ⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), ⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (original TFTT theme design), ⁠Hisham Rifai⁠⁠⁠ (FTP theme design), ⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP team profile pics), Elia Ayoub (episode design).

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti and israa abd elfattah.

The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

What we hope to achieve this year.

Mentioned:

• Our patreon

• Antidotezine 

• Liz Artistry'sWebsite andInstagram

• The monthly hangout is open to all Patreon supporters, guests and hosts.Join us!

• Hauntologies.net 

• The email:[email protected] 

• Elia'sBluesky andMastodon

• TFTT is onBluesky andIG, and we have awebsite

• FTP is onBluesky andIG, and we have awebsite

• The Inconvenient Revolution is an upcoming podcast by Leila Al-Shami and Elia Ayoub on Syria. All episodes will be first available on ourPatreon

• The Mutual Aid Podcast is already available wherever you listen to podcasts. They are also onBluesky andIG. All episodes are first available on ourPatreon

• Obscuristan is already available wherever you listen to podcasts. All episodes are first available on ourPatreon.

• Ayman's video essays are available first on Patreon and then on YouTube. The first episode is entitled 'Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims' and is already on YouTube. The second episode is entitled 'Where are the Arabs?' and is available onPatreon.

• Ayman's live streams are on the From The PeripheryYouTube channel.

• The upcoming Star Trek podcast (not FTP-related) is by Elia Ayoub and carla joy berman. It will be announced on their social media accounts soon. The TFTT episode with carla is entitled "Let’s Talk About Youth Autonomy w/ carla joy bergman" and is episode number 132.

• carla joy berman can be found ontheir website and onBluesky. Check out their podcastGrounded Futures and the journal they're part of,CAW: "a worker-run anarchist journal of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find."

In this special collab episode betweenObscuristan and The Fire These Times, Karena Avedissian and Anna are joined by Daniel Voskoboynik to discuss the life of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and what his death means for those of us not quite at the heart of the Russian empire.

Obscuristan and The Fire These Times are proud members of⁠⁠ ⁠From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective⁠⁠⁠. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the Mutual Aid Podcast⁠⁠,⁠⁠ Politically Depressed⁠⁠,⁠⁠ and⁠⁠Antidote Zine⁠⁠. To support FTP please head out to⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done byAntidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times’ transcript archive.

For more:

• Karena Avedissian is onBluesky

• Obscuristan is onInstagram 

• Daniel Voskoboynik is onBluesky and has anewsletter and awebsite

• The Fire These Times is onBluesky,IG and YouTube and has awebsite⁠ ⁠

• From The Periphery is on⁠Patreon⁠,Bluesky,YouTube⁠,Instagram, and has awebsite⁠

Credits:

Hosts: Karena Avedissian and Anna | Guest: Daniel Voskoboynik | Music: Sarven Yapar⁠⁠ | TFTT theme design:Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠ | FTP theme design:Hisham Rifai⁠ | Sound editor: Anna | Team profile pics: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producers: Elia Ayoub and Anna

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!

The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed underAttribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International

This is a conversation with⁠William C. Anderson⁠, author of the book⁠The Nation on No Map⁠ (AK Press 2021) and co-author of⁠As Black as Resistance⁠ (AK Press 2018). He’s also the co-founder of⁠Offshoot Journal⁠ and provides creative direction as a producer of the⁠Black Autonomy Podcast⁠.

The Fire These Times is a proud member of⁠⁠ ⁠From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective⁠⁠⁠. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the Mutual Aid Podcast⁠⁠,⁠⁠ Politically Depressed⁠⁠,⁠⁠ Obscuristan⁠⁠, and⁠⁠Antidote Zine⁠⁠. To support FTP please head to⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

For more:

• William C Anderson has awebsite

• Elia Ayoub is on⁠Mastodon⁠,IG,⁠Bluesky⁠, and he hasa newsletter

• The Fire These Times is onIG and YouTube and has awebsite⁠ ⁠

• From The Periphery is on⁠Patreon⁠,YouTube⁠,Instagram, and has awebsite⁠

Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done byAntidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times’ transcript archive.

Credits:

Host: Elia Ayoub | Guest: William C Anderson | Music:⁠⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠ | TFTT theme design:Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠ | FTP theme design:Hisham Rifai⁠ | Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz | Team profile pics: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producer: Elliott Miskovicz and Elia Ayoub

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!

The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed underAttribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International

Elia reads and comments on his essay "Punishing the land: Israeli symbolism during the Gaza genocide" for Hauntologies.net He was also on Al Jazeera to talk about how the Israelis mark the lands they destroy (link in the newsletter).

The Hauntologies Podcast is a production of From The Periphery and part of The Fire These Times podcast. A newsletter version exists at hauntologies.net. To support us, please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery to subscribe. You are free to republish and translate the text and audio as long as you credit us with the appropriate patreon link.

For More:

Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon and Instagram

From the Periphery is on Bluesky and Instagram

The Fire These Times is on Bluesky and Instagram

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!

Elia Ayoub goes into his essay for hauntologies.net in which he asks: what does it mean to lose the future?

The film explored is Maher Abi Samra's 'We Were Communists' (2011). It will be part of our upcoming movie club on the patreon.

The Hauntologies Podcast is a production of From The Periphery and part of The Fire These Times podcast. A newsletter version exists at hauntologies.net. To support us, please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery to subscribe. You are free to republish and translate the text and audio as long as you credit us with the appropriate patreon link.

For More:

Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon and Instagram

From the Periphery is on Bluesky and Instagram

The Fire These Times is on Bluesky and Instagram

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!

It's finally happening. Ayman has finished his new video essay 'Where are the Arabs?'.

'Where are the Arabs?' is a long-form video essay about the history, failures, and nostalgia of Arab Nationalism. It's one Arab leftist's attempt to sift through this trend, see its remnant today, nd dispell its myths. Today, there is no Arab solidarity in action. But was there ever? I explore this question and many more over 1h 15m, with clips from a broad range of Arab leftist intellectuals.

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There's a live drop happening on Patreon on Sunday 26th at 8pm CET. I'll be in the live chat. Join me!

⁠Link to the Video Essay⁠

Free for members, available for one-time purchase for anyone else!

Here's a Youtube link to Ayman's first video essay, released a few months ago

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Elia Ayoub reads from his Hauntologies.net piece "⁠This Moment. Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza⁠" which is available for free.

The Hauntologies Podcast is a production of From The Periphery and part of The Fire These Times podcast. A newsletter version exists at hauntologies.net. To support us, please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery to subscribe. You are free to republish and translate the text and audio as long as you credit us with the appropriate patreon link.

For More:

Elia is on Bluesky, Mastodon and Instagram

From the Periphery is on Bluesky and Instagram

The Fire These Times is on Bluesky and Instagram

If you are on Apple Podcasts: We recommend subscribing via Patreon instead of Apple's FTP Premium as it is a friendlier option to creators. Go to the website, subscribe there and use the RSS feed to listen on your iPhones.

If you are a paid subscriber to Hauntologies.net you will have the same audio as part of the regular newsletter, so you won't have to pay twice to get access to these.

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!

For episode 183, Leila and Elia are joined by Wendy Pearlman to discuss her newest book,The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora as well as her previous bookWe Crossed a Bridge and Trembled. 

Note that we recorded this episode on November 9, 2024 – just weeks prior to the ousting of the Assad regime. As such, a few small details of the conversation are now ‘outdated’, however the conversation we had and Wendy’s books still remain extremely relevant and important to understanding the Syrian revolution, war, and its present day.

The Fire These Times is a proud member of ⁠From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective⁠. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the (newly aired!)Mutual Aid Podcast, Politically Depressed, Obscuristan, andAntidote Zine. To support FTP please head toPatreon⁠⁠⁠.

From The Periphery is on⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠,⁠Bluesky⁠,⁠Instagram⁠, and has a⁠website⁠⁠

Mentioned in this episode:

• Wendy Pearlman’s bio

• The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora by Wendy Pearlman

• We Crossed a Bridge and Trembled by Wendy Pearlman

• Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab 

• Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym

• Resilient: Broken by Elia Ayoub

• Syrian Association for Citizens' Dignity for reports on Syrian refugees, forced returns to Syria, and other stories and analyses of the Syrian political context

• From the Periphery’s newly releasedMutual Aid Podcast

For more:

• Wendy is onBluesky and has awebsite

• Leila is onMastodon and Bluesky, and check out herwebsite 

• Elia Ayoub is on⁠Mastodon⁠,IG,⁠Bluesky⁠, and he hasa newsletter

• The Fire These Times is onIG and YouTube and has awebsite⁠⁠

• From The Periphery is on⁠Patreon⁠,YouTube⁠,Bluesky,Instagram, and has awebsite⁠

Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done byAntidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times' transcript archive.

Credits:

Hosts: Leila Al-Shami, Elia Ayoub | Guest: Wendy Pearlman | Music:⁠⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠ | TFTT theme design:Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠ | FTP theme design:Hisham Rifai⁠ | Sound editor: Kaylee | Team profile pics: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Episode design: Aydın Yıldız | Producer: Aydın Yıldız

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!

The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed underAttribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International