The Fire These Times is a podcast by Lebanese writer & researcher Elia Ayoub connecting academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old.”
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- This Cannot Be The New Normal
- The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor
- The Stories That Fascism Fears Most w/ Jessie Gender (Special Crossover w/ Resistance is Fertile)
- A Liquid Convo About Venezuela w/ Laura Vidal
- Our Region After Samir Kassir: Special 20 Years Commemoration w/ Ziad Majed
- The Wars Within the War on Gaza w/ Maram Humaid
- Intent, Holocaust Studies and the Gaza Genocide w/ Amos Goldberg
- Cracks in the Walls: Global Perspectives on Migration
- We Are the Children of the Children of War
- What Trump Sees in Bukele w/ Michael Paarlberg
- Doikayt (‘Hereness’) Now! w/ Molly Crabapple
- Revolutionary Aid in Sudan w/ Eiad Husham
- Round table: Where are the Arabs? Parts 1 & 2
- What Ukraine Faces w/ Romeo Kokriatski
- Öcalan’s Statement and the Future of the PKK w/ Dîlan
- Lebanon’s Lost Communist Future
- Merry Christmas Homs
- Making Home in Exile: Stories from the New Syrian Diaspora w/ Wendy Pearlman
- Our Mirror Worlds w/ Naomi Klein
- Merry Christmas Homs
- Don’t Despair, We Got This w/ Margaret Killjoy
- Syria and Palestine’s Intertwined Liberations w/ Banah Ghadbian
- Lebanon: What Now? w/ Mohamad Bazzi
- Roundtable on Syria
- Mutual Aid in Lebanon Today w/ Serge and Abir
- American Neocons, Christian Zionists & Israeli Fascism w/ Atalia Omer
- Beekeeping, Bosnia & in the End Times w/ Larisa Jašarević
- Lebanon From 1860 to the Present Day
- This Arab is Queer w/Elias Jahshan
- The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory
- What is Happening in Balochistan? w/ Lateef Johar Baloch
- Facing the German Far Right w/ Musa Okwonga
- Macronisme and the Far Right in France w/Sahar Amarir & Rim-Sarah Alouane
- Building Transnational Solidarity w/ Chkoun? Collective
- Netanyahu’s Dubaization Plan for Gaza After the Genocide w/ Yasser Elsheshtawy
- Israel-Palestine After Zionism w/ Ahmed Moor & Antony Loewenstein
- That One Time the Olympics Were Cool w/ James Stout
- El Salvador’s Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg
- The Far Right is Not Inevitable w/ Aurelien Mondon
- Spaces of Exception and the Struggle for Native American and Palestinian Autonomy
- The Gaza Genocide Changes Everything
- Raising a Brown Child in a Time of Genocide w/ Nikesh Shukla
- Building Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity w/ Yuliia Kishchuk
- Lebanon and the Threat of Christian Fascism w/ Justin Salhani
- Taking Authoritarianism Seriously w/ Bill Fletcher Jr
- Obscuristan: Navalny from the Periphery w/ Anna, Karena & Daniel
- The ’82 Israeli Siege of Lebanon: Similarities and Differences with Gaza Today w/ Justin Salhani
- Anti-Imperialism After the Syrian Revolution w/ Sahar Amarir
- Living Like the World is Dying w/ Margaret Killjoy
- Israel and American Jewish Dissent w/ Geoffrey Levin
- Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors w/ Tory Stephens
- The Israeli War on Southern Lebanon w/ Karim Safieddine, Michelle Eid & Justin Salhani
- How Azerbaijan is Greenwashing Genocide w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna
- Understanding Seen and Unseen Violence in Israel-Palestine
- From Capitalist Realism to Solarpunk Realities
- Palestine and Global Solidarity
- Organizing In Israel-Palestine After October 7
- Arab Jews for Palestinian Liberation w/ Hadar Cohen and Dahab Kashi
- Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives – Remastered
- Against the Imperialist Impulse: An Interview w/ Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
- Special Episode: Roundtable on Israel-Palestine w/ Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach
- Sudan: In Revolution and War
- How the World Failed Nagorno-Karabakh w/ Karena Avedissian & Anna
- How the EU Criminalizes Solidarity with Migrants w/ Border Violence Monitoring Network
- The Moral Urgency of Degrowth w/ Timothée Parrique & Yusra Bitar
- Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery w/ Leila Al Shami, Romeo Kokriatski & Dana El Kurd
- Bala Falsafi – First Episode!
- We Need to Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani
- Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon Special Fundraising!
- Podcast: Remembering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd
- Podcast: When War Gets Normalized, Or What’s At Stake in Ukraine w/ Mariam Naiem and Romeo Kokriatski
- Podcast: Radical Legacies of the Mexican Revolution w/ Christina Heatherton and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
- Podcast: Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Sami and Shon Meckfessel
- Podcast: Overcoming the Trauma of Caste w/ Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rhythima Shinde and Vivek Ramachandran
- Podcast: Let’s Talk About Youth Autonomy w/ carla joy bergman
- Podcast: Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri
- Podcast: Armenian-ness and Solidarity in a Changing World w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna
- Podcast: The Meaning of Time in Prison w/ Morgan Godvin and Molly Hagan
- Podcast: The Islamic Regime of Iran Will Fall w/ Kiana and Vicky
- Podcast: Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski
- Premium Episode 1: Watching Seinfeld as Arab Millennials w/ Ayman Makarem
- Podcast: The Memory We Could Be: Fear and Our Ecological Future w/ Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
- Podcast: Understanding (Anti-)Fascism w/ Shane Burley
- Podcast: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, a Star Trek episode w/ Jessie Gender
- Podcast: Hauntings, Futurisms and the Present Movement w/ Luka Dowell aka Solarpunk Now!
- Podcast: In Search of Afro-Solarpunk w/ Rob Cameron
- Podcast: Special 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Retrospective
- Podcast: Solarpunk and Post-Capitalist Desires w/ HydroponicTrash
- Podcast: Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War w/ Mariam Naiem & Romeo Kokriatski
- Podcast: Lessons on the Path to Radicalization w/ Andrewism & Emmi Bevensee
- Podcast: Bosnia, False Histories and Fact-Free Politics w/ Edin Hajdarpašić
- Podcast: The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung
- Podcast: Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction w/ Andrew Dana Hudson
- Podcast: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route w/ Sally Hayden
- Podcast: Nostalgia in the Periphery w/ Efe Levent
- Podcast: A View on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen, from Taiwan w/ Wen Liu & Brian Hioe
