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.

Support: You can support my work with⁠⁠ ⁠a one-off or monthly donation⁠⁠⁠ on Ko-fi

Masterclass on Modern Lebanon:⁠⁠ ⁠Registration is now open⁠⁠⁠

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Social Media: I’m on⁠⁠ ⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠ ⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠

Contact: To collaborate, reach out on ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠

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• Website: All episodes are archived ⁠⁠on the website⁠⁠

From The Periphery

TFTT is a proud member of ⁠⁠⁠From The Periphery Media Collective⁠⁠⁠⁠, which you can support⁠⁠ on Patreon⁠⁠ and follow on⁠⁠ Bluesky⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠⁠ Instagram⁠⁠.

Check out other project wherever you get your podcasts:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠

• ⁠⁠Politically Depressed⁠⁠⁠

• ⁠⁠Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution⁠⁠ 

• ⁠⁠From The Periphery Podcast⁠⁠ 

• ⁠⁠The Mutual Aid Podcast⁠⁠

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.

If you’d like to support The Fire These Times, the best way to do it is through⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes⁠. In return, you’ll get early access to everything I record, exclusive videos, the mini-series all at once, access to the monthly hangout, discounts on ⁠my classes⁠ and ⁠newsletter⁠, the class recordings (all of them), an invitation to join the Discord chat, merch, personalised thank you cards, and more stuff to come.

Registrations for the November class (online) on modern Lebanese history and politics are now open: ⁠https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass ⁠

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For feedback, requests etc: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Everything else is archived on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠the website⁠⁠.

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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

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

For episode 182, Elia, Anna, and Dana are joined by author, scholar, and activist Naomi Klein to discuss her most recent book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. 

If you’d like to support The Fire These Times, the best way to do it is through⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes⁠. In return, you’ll get early access to everything I record, exclusive videos, the mini-series all at once, access to the monthly hangout, discounts on ⁠my classes⁠ and ⁠newsletter⁠, the class recordings (all of them), an invitation to join the Discord chat, merch, personalised thank you cards, and more stuff to come.

Registrations for the November class (online) on modern Lebanese history and politics are now open: ⁠https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass ⁠

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For feedback, requests etc: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Everything else is archived on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠the website⁠⁠.

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Credits:

Hosts: Elia Ayoub, Anna M, Dana El Kurd | Guest: Naomi Klein | Music: ⁠⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠ | TFTT theme design: ⁠⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠ | FTP theme design: ⁠Hisham Rifai⁠ | Sound editor: Kaylee | Team profile pics: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producer: Aydın Yıldız

Elia Ayoub reads from his newsletter piece "Merry Christmas Homs: Tribute to Bassel Shehadeh's Last City" which is available for free. It is a reference to a short film directed by Bassel during Christmas 2011 in Homs under heavy shelling by the Assad regime. You can watch it on YouTube.

Trigger warning: this audio features some sounds from the original film, including airstrikes. They come right after Elia says 'at times getting closer' at around 1:25 seconds. Skip to 1:59 to avoid them.

Support: You can support my work with⁠⁠ ⁠a one-off or monthly donation⁠⁠⁠ on Ko-fi

Masterclass on Modern Lebanon:⁠⁠ ⁠Registration is now open⁠⁠⁠

Newsletter: Subscribe to⁠⁠ ⁠Hauntologies⁠⁠⁠

Social Media: I’m on⁠⁠ ⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠ ⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠

Contact: To collaborate, reach out on ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠

The Fire These Times

• Social Media: TFTT is on⁠⁠ Bluesky⁠⁠ and⁠⁠ Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

• Transcription: You can help⁠⁠ ⁠Antidote Zine⁠⁠⁠ transcribe TFTT episodes⁠⁠ here⁠⁠

• Website: All episodes are archived ⁠⁠on the website⁠⁠

From The Periphery

TFTT is a proud member of ⁠⁠⁠From The Periphery Media Collective⁠⁠⁠⁠, which you can support⁠⁠ on Patreon⁠⁠ and follow on⁠⁠ Bluesky⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠⁠ Instagram⁠⁠.

Check out other project wherever you get your podcasts:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠

• ⁠⁠Politically Depressed⁠⁠⁠

• ⁠⁠Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution⁠⁠ 

• ⁠⁠From The Periphery Podcast⁠⁠ 

• ⁠⁠The Mutual Aid Podcast⁠⁠

For episode 181, Elia Ayoub is joined by Margaret Killjoy to talk about her piece "⁠The Sky is Falling; We've Got This⁠" published on her newsletter. We recorded this shortly after Trump was announced as the winner of the US elections and many people were feeling despair, understandably so.

Check out Margaret's new book and first novel "The Sapling Cage" with Feminist Press!

If you’d like to support The Fire These Times, the best way to do it is through⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes⁠. In return, you’ll get early access to everything I record, exclusive videos, the mini-series all at once, access to the monthly hangout, discounts on ⁠my classes⁠ and ⁠newsletter⁠, the class recordings (all of them), an invitation to join the Discord chat, merch, personalised thank you cards, and more stuff to come.

Registrations for the November class (online) on modern Lebanese history and politics are now open: ⁠https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass ⁠

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Social Media: Elia (⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠), TFTT (⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

For feedback, requests etc: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Everything else is archived on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠the website⁠⁠.

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Credits:

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

For episode 180, Leila Al-Shami and Elia Ayoub are joined by Dr Banah Ghadbian to talk about her piece "Give Us Our Land Back: The Golan Heights, Greenwashing, Syria and Palestine’s Intertwined Revolutions" published on Spectre Journal.

We spoke of the importance of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the liberation of both Palestine and Syria. This was recorded before the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria. Since then, Israel has already taken steps to occupy more of Syrian territory in the Golan Heights, making Banah's arguments about how Syria and Palestine's freedoms are intertwined even more pertinent.

If you’d like to support The Fire These Times, the best way to do it is through⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes⁠. In return, you’ll get early access to everything I record, exclusive videos, the mini-series all at once, access to the monthly hangout, discounts on ⁠my classes⁠ and ⁠newsletter⁠, the class recordings (all of them), an invitation to join the Discord chat, merch, personalised thank you cards, and more stuff to come.

Registrations for the November class (online) on modern Lebanese history and politics are now open: ⁠https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass ⁠

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Social Media: Elia (⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠), TFTT (⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

For feedback, requests etc: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Everything else is archived on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠the website⁠⁠.

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Credits:

Leila Al Shami (host), Elia Ayoub (host, episode designer), Ayman Makarem (producer, sound editor), Elia Ayoub (episode design), ⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), ⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (TFTT theme design), ⁠⁠Hisham Rifai⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP theme design) and ⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP team profile pics). 

For episode 179, Beirut-based journalist Justin Salhani is joined with New York University professor and journalist Mohamad Bazzi to talk about the situation in Lebanon before and after the ceasefire with Israel.

If you’d like to support The Fire These Times, the best way to do it is through⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes⁠. In return, you’ll get early access to everything I record, exclusive videos, the mini-series all at once, access to the monthly hangout, discounts on ⁠my classes⁠ and ⁠newsletter⁠, the class recordings (all of them), an invitation to join the Discord chat, merch, personalised thank you cards, and more stuff to come.

Registrations for the November class (online) on modern Lebanese history and politics are now open: ⁠https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass ⁠

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Social Media: Elia (⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠), TFTT (⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

For feedback, requests etc: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Everything else is archived on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠the website⁠⁠.

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More links:

• ​https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/27/israel-lebanon-gaza-war-biden
• ​https://www.theguardian.com/profile/mohamad-bazzi
• ​https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/11/10/in-lebanon-misleading-and-sporadic-israeli-evacuation-orders-instil-fear
• ​https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/10/26/once-upon-a-time-in-dahiyeh-israels-destruction-of-lebanons-communities

Books recommended by Bazzi:

• ​Rashid Khalidi 100 years war
• ​Fawaz Traboulsi A History of Modern Lebanon
• ​David Hirst Beware of Small States

For more:

• ​Justin Salhani is on Bluesky
• ​Mohamad Bazzi is on Bluesky

Credits:

Justin Salhani (host), Ayman Makarem (producer, sound editor), Elia Ayoub (episode design), ⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), ⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (TFTT theme design), ⁠⁠Hisham Rifai⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP theme design) and ⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP team profile pics). 

A lot has happened over the last week in Syria, so we figured we'd gather together, as members of From the Periphery, to discuss the latest developments and provide a historical and political background to help understand the current moment. We discuss a broad range of topics starting with an overview of the what's happened in the last week or so, including: the origins of the Syrian revolution, the counter-revolutionary war, the abuses and crimes of the Assad regime, foreign interventions and regional factors, descriptions of groups such as HTS (Hayat Tahrir al Sham) and SNA (Syria National Army), Kurdish movements and the concerns of ethnic/religious minorities, the racist tankie 'take' industry, and the connections between liberatory movements for Palestine and Syria. We cover a lot but of course we couldn't do everything justice. We will provide links below for further resources, but also plan on doing more episodes in the near future on all these topics as things develop and progress.

If you’d like to support The Fire These Times, the best way to do it is through⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes⁠. In return, you’ll get early access to everything I record, exclusive videos, the mini-series all at once, access to the monthly hangout, discounts on ⁠my classes⁠ and ⁠newsletter⁠, the class recordings (all of them), an invitation to join the Discord chat, merch, personalised thank you cards, and more stuff to come.

Registrations for the November class (online) on modern Lebanese history and politics are now open: ⁠https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass ⁠

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Social Media: Elia (⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠), TFTT (⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

For feedback, requests etc: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Everything else is archived on⁠ ⁠⁠⁠the website⁠⁠.

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Credits

Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design),⁠ ⁠⁠⁠the rosa artist⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (TFTT theme design),⁠ ⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠ (TFTT theme design), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (my profile pic),⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), and⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Antidote Zine⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Transcriptions)

As always, thank you for listening and take care.

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For more:

• ​Leila Al-Shami on ⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠
• ​Ayman Makarem is on Bluesky
• ​Karena Avedissian is on Bluesky

Credits:

Elia Ayoub (host, episode design), ⁠⁠Leila Al Shami (host), Ayman Makarem (host, producer, sound editor), Karena Avedissian, ⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), ⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (TFTT theme design), ⁠⁠Hisham Rifai⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP theme design) and ⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP team profile pics).