A conversation with Tylor Brand - author of Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War.

Tylor Brand received his Ph.D. from the American University of Beirut in 2014 and has taught at AUB, the American University of Sharjah and in his current position in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.

His book Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War examines how people struggled to survive and to endure the traumas of life during the Lebanese famine of World War I.

Famine Worlds is available for pre-order at Aaliya's Books.

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Timestamps:

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:56 Recent cliff

8:26 Adaptive strategies

14:10 Confluence of crises

26:58 Famine & geography

40:11 Social attitudes

50:32 Identity & suffering

1:07:27 Humanitarian aid

1:21:08 Q&A