This week, we speak with Ahmad Abu Ertema, a Gaza based journalist and author, and one of the organizers of the Gaza’s Great March of Return, as well as historian Jehad Abu Salim who is also staff member of the American Friends Service Committee about the Great Mach, The impacts of Israel's decade-long blockade of the Gaza strip.

Later in the program, Dr. Persis Karim, the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University joins us to talk about the center’s upcoming conference marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution.