Tag: Podcast
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Organizing In Israel-Palestine After October 7
In episode 146, Joey Ayoub and Dana El-Kurd talk to Sally Abed, Orly Noy and Amjad Iraqi. Abed is a member of the national leadership of Standing Together (עומדים ביחד نقف معًا), a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice. Orly Noy is…
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How the EU Criminalizes Solidarity with Migrants w/ Border Violence Monitoring Network
Joey is joined by Anas & Elena from the Border Violence Monitoring Network to talk about the way in which the European Union is criminalizing solidarity with migrants and how the EU has turned the Mediterranean into a giant graveyard for people who look like me. You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a…
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The Moral Urgency of Degrowth w/ Timothée Parrique & Yusra Bitar
Joey is joined by French economist and researcher Timothée Parrique and Lebanese researcher Yusra Bitar to talk about why tackling our world’s most pressing challenges must include conversations around degrowth. Timothée Parrique is a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden) and is the lead author of “Decoupling debunked –…
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Anti-Imperialism From the Periphery w/ Leila Al Shami, Romeo Kokriatski & Dana El Kurd
Joey is joined by Leila Al-Shami, British-Syrian activist and co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, Romeo Kokriatski, Ukrainian-American managing editor of The New Voice of Ukraine and co-host of the Ukraine Without Hype podcast, and Dana El Kurd, Palestinian-American assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Richmond…
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Bala Falsafi – First Episode!
Welcome to Bala Falsafi, a storytelling podcast between two close friends, Ayman Makarem and Hisham Rifai. Join us as we sit on our fictitious balcony in Beirut talking about everything and nothing. In this episode we talk about sleep during heatwave, the myth of a trilingual Lebanon, and explain why we chose the name Bala…
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We Need to Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani
After some 12 years on the site, I’ve finally deleted my Twitter account. Its takeover by a profoundly narcissistic, mediocre and insecure bigot gave me that extra excuse I’d been looking for all these years. But why does any of that matter? After all, isn’t it ‘just a website’? Yes. And no. Whether you are…
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Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon Special Fundraising!
The Fire These Times is fundraising for Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon! Here to talk to us about their work, queer mutual aid in Lebanon and why they started working after the October 2019 uprising and the 2020 crises (Covid-19, August 4 explosion, economic crisis and more) is repeated guest and buddy-in-chief Ayman Makarem. To support…
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Podcast: Remembering the Nakba, Imagining the Future w/ Dana El Kurd
I’m joined again by friend of the pod Dana El Kurd, a Palestinian researcher who specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations. We talked about Nakba Day (May 15), about the importance of reflecting on the past while also trying to plan for the future, and how we can commemorate the Nakba by building bonds…
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Podcast: When War Gets Normalized, Or What’s At Stake in Ukraine w/ Mariam Naiem and Romeo Kokriatski
I’m joined again by friends of the pod Ukrainian researcher Mariam Naiem and journalist Romeo Kokriatski to talk about why Ukrainians understood very quickly what’s at stake, how war leads to frozen temporalities, and why Russia is so obsessed with kidnapping Ukrainian children (which, by the way, is a war crime). Slava Ukraini! Where to…
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Podcast: Radical Legacies of the Mexican Revolution w/ Christina Heatherton and Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
I’m very excited to share with you this conversation I had with Christina Heatherton, the author of “Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution“, alongside friend of the pod Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik who joined us as co-host. The Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and…
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Podcast: Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Sami and Shon Meckfessel
In which I sat down with my buds Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel to talk about how and why a bunch of fascists became fans of everyone’s favorite genocidal mass murdering dictator, Bashar (يلعن روحك يا) Assad, who was recently voted most likely to end up like Mussolini by I-just-made-it-up magazine. Leila, a recurring guest,…
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Podcast: Overcoming the Trauma of Caste w/ Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Rhythima Shinde and Vivek Ramachandran
This is a conversation with Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the author of ‘The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing and Abolution’.
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Podcast: Let’s Talk About Youth Autonomy w/ carla joy bergman
This is a conversation with carla joy bergman, the editor of the excellent book “Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy” and co-author of the equally excellent book “Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times“, both published by AK Press. She’s also the co-host of the Grounded Futures podcast alongside her…
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Podcast: Commoning in Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugee Camps w/ Yafa El Masri
This is a conversation with Yafa El Masri, a Palestinian refugee researcher who grew up in Burj El Barajneh in Beirut, Lebanon. She’s currently finishing her PhD at the University of Padova in Italy. We primarily spoke about her paper “72 Years of Homemaking in Waiting Zones: Lebanon’s “Permanently Temporary” Palestinian Refugee Camps” which she…
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Podcast: Armenian-ness and Solidarity in a Changing World w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna
This is a conversation with Karena Avedissian and Anna, and a collaboration with their podcast Obscuristan. We spoke about so many things I actually didn’t know at first what the episode title will be. The main thread was about Armenian-ness and how complicated of an identity it is due to the old and transnational history…
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Podcast: The Meaning of Time in Prison w/ Morgan Godvin and Molly Hagan
This is a conversation with Morgan Govin and Molly Hagan. This is how Morgan introduces herself on her website: “I spent five years addicted to heroin and four years incarcerated as a direct result of my addiction. I lost my mom and four close friends to overdose. I found a system of injustice within the…
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Podcast: The Islamic Regime of Iran Will Fall w/ Kiana and Vicky
This is a conversation with two Iranian activists, both of whom will remain anonymous for obvious reasons. ‘Vicky’ joined us from Tehran, and Kiana from Manchester. We talked about the recent Iranian uprising following the murder of Jina ‘Mahsa’ Amini and why ‘reforming’ the regime cannot work. We spoke about the strikes, the clear gendered…
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Podcast: Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski
I’m excited to share with you my convo with Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski on why the idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued, and why the left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism. You can find the episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Kavita Krishnan is an Indian Marxist and Feminist…
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Premium Episode 1: Watching Seinfeld as Arab Millennials w/ Ayman Makarem
This is the first ever premium episode on The Fire These Times, part of the drive to get more supporters to make this project more long-term. In which I talk about Seinfeld with fellow Arab millennial and writer (and previous guest of the podcast) Ayman Makarem. It’s that simple! What made that sitcom so special…
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Podcast: The Memory We Could Be: Fear and Our Ecological Future w/ Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik is the Argentinian author of The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future and amongst the most fascinating thinkers I know. He’s also a good friend. We spoke about reckoning with past ecological violence of, bio-cultural memory and our collective ecological heritage. Basically, why we need to mix…
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Podcast: Understanding (Anti-)Fascism w/ Shane Burley
This is an episode with writer and filmmaker Shane Burley, editor of the must-read book published by AK Press: “No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis.” It is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles. From the history of antifascism to today’s…
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Podcast: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, a Star Trek episode w/ Jessie Gender
Jessie Gender joins us to talk Star Trek, diversity, autism, LGBTQ representation and futurisms.
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Podcast: Hauntings, Futurisms and the Present Movement w/ Luka Dowell aka Solarpunk Now!
Solarpunk Now! host Luka Dowell joins Joey Ayoub to talk about Hauntings, Futurisms, and Solarpunk.
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Podcast: In Search of Afro-Solarpunk w/ Rob Cameron
This is a conversation with Rob Cameron, a teacher, linguist, and writer on the search for Afro-Solarpunk. He has poetry forthcoming in Star*Line Poetry Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His essays and short fiction have appeared in Foreign Policy Magazine, Tor.com, the New Modality, and Clockwork Phoenix Five. His debut middle…
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Podcast: Special 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Retrospective
Stadio co-host Musa Okwonga, football and MENA journalist Justin Salhani and human rights researcher Fabien Goa join Joey Ayoub to talk about the 2022 FIFA World Cup and how to make football radical The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts,…
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Podcast: Solarpunk and Post-Capitalist Desires w/ HydroponicTrash
This is a conversation with hacker, gardener and writer Andre, aka HydroponicTrash. You can also find Andre on Substack at AnarchoSolarpunk. The title is taken from one of Andre’s essays. You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. Andrew…
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Podcast: Russian Imperialism, Cynical Discourse and Life Amidst War w/ Mariam Naiem & Romeo Kokriatski
This is a conversation with Ukrainian-Afghan researcher Mariam Naiem and Ukrainian-American journalist Romeo Kokriatski about the ongoing situation in Ukraine, the history of Russian imperialism, cynical online discourse and life amidst war. You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and…
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Podcast: Lessons on the Path to Radicalization w/ Andrewism & Emmi Bevensee
This is a conversation with Andrew Sage of the Andrewism YouTube channel and Emmi Bevensee about our respective lessons on the path to political radicalization. You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. Make sure to check out Andrew’s…
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Podcast: Bosnia, False Histories and Fact-Free Politics w/ Edin Hajdarpašić
This is a conversation with Edin Hajdarpašić, associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago on Bosnia, False Histories and Politics. He wrote an essay called “What Use Is Fact-Checking Against Fact-Free Politics?” which was the basis for our conversation. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon…
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Podcast: The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung
This is a conversation with Karen Cheung, author of the book “The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir.” As you’ll hear, we ended up finding a lot of things in common between our two cities and experiences. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher,…
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Podcast: Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction w/ Andrew Dana Hudson
This is a conversation with Andrew Dana Hudson, a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, editor and futurist and the author of “Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures.” It’s also his second time on The Fire These Times. Andrew also has a newsletter called solarshades.club which publishes every other Sunday with updates on…
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Podcast: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route w/ Sally Hayden
This is a conversation with Sally Hayden, an Irish journalist and writer. A foreign correspondent, she has reported from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. Her book My Fourth Time, We Drowned, an investigation into the so-called migrant crisis in Europe, was published in 2022. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,…
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Podcast: Nostalgia in the Periphery w/ Efe Levent
This is a conversation with Efe Levent, editor-in-chief at Mangal Media about their recent ‘Nostalgia in the Periphery‘ project. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimesSubstack: thefirethesetimes.substack.comTwitter: twitter.com/fireTheseTimesInstagram: instagram.com/firethesetimesTikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirethesetimes Recommended Books: Nostalgia in the…
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Podcast: A View on Ukraine, Hong Kong & Tiananmen, from Taiwan w/ Wen Liu & Brian Hioe
This is a conversation with Wen Liu and Brian Hioe, authors of the piece “From Taiwan to Ukraine” on Spectre. This episode was co-hosted by Romeo Kokriatski, co-host of the podcast “Ukraine Without Hype.” The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket…
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Podcast: From Yarmouk to the World: On Syria, Palestine and Lebanon w/ Nidal Betare
Nidal Betare joins Joey Ayoub to talk about growing up in Yarmouk, being Palestinian-Syrian and the links between Syria, Palestine and Lebanon. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimesSubstack: thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter: twitter.com/fireTheseTimes Instagram: instagram.com/firethesetimes Recommended…
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Podcast: What is Happening in Tigray? w/ Teklehaymanot Weldemichel
Tigrayan academic Teklehaymanot Weldemichel joins Joey Ayoub to talk about what’s been happening in Tigray. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. Resources: Omna Tigray Tghat HRW Report: “We Will Erase You from This Land” Art by…
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Podcast: On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse w/ Michael J. DeLuca
This is a special and short episode in which Michael J. DeLuca reads out an essay he wrote for Issue 2 of Reckoning entitled ‘On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse‘. The episode includes an updated intro by Michael as well. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor,…
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Podcast: Climate Narratives that Go Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Alyssa Hull
This is a conversation with Alyssa Hull who splits her time between teaching high school biology and environmental science and writing speculative fiction. We spoke about what it’s like to talk to high school students about climate change, the role of fiction like Solarpunk and how to improve climate communication. The article she wrote that…
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Podcast: Pro-Palestine Activism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Arab World w/ Dana El-Kurd
This is a conversation with Dana El-Kurd, her second time on the podcast. We spoke about a paper that she wrote entitled “Gateway to dissent: the role of pro-Palestine activism in opposition to authoritarianism.” We primarily spoke about the role of pro-Palestine activism in pro-democracy movements in the Arab world (with examples from Qatar, Lebanon,…
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Podcast: What Asexuality Says About Society w/ Angela Chen
This is a conversation with Angela Chen, author of the book ‘Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex‘. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. This isn’t an Asexuality 101 episode. Feel…
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Podcast: Black Anarchism, Abolition and the Radical Tradition w/ William C. Anderson
This is a conversation with William C. Anderson, author of the book The Nation on No Map (AK Press 2021) and co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. The Fire These Times is available…
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Podcast: Football is Political: #Qatar2022, Russia and What Comes Next w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani
This is a conversation with Justin Salhani of ‘Oh My Goal’ and Musa Okwonga (his 4th time on the pod) of ‘Stadio‘ about football, politics and human rights. We talked about the upcoming world cup in Qatar, the role of dirty money in football (including Russian, Emirati and Saudi) and what might come next. The…
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Podcast: What ‘Living With Covid’ Actually Means w/ Martin Paul Eve
This is a conversation with academic Martin Paul Eve, professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. We spoke about his article ‘just the first two years‘…
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Podcast: The Urgency of the IPCC Report w/ Dr Rupa Mukerji and Dr Lisa Schipper
This is a conversation with Dr Rupa Mukerji and Dr Lisa Schipper, both of whom worked on the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. What we talked…
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Ukraine Series: 2. From Ukraine, with Love (and Anger) w/ Romeo Kokriatski
The second episode of the Ukraine Series is with Ukrainian journalist Romeo Kokriatski, who came on to talk to us about the first month of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine. What is happening? Why is it happening? And what might happen next? He is managing editor at New Voice Ukraine, co-host of the Ukraine Without…
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Podcast: The Periphery and Aimé Césaire’s Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution (with Fadi Bardawil)
This is a conversation with Fadi Bardawil, his 2nd time on the podcast. Bardawil is an anthropologist who researches the Leftist tradition in the Arab world. In this episode, we talked about two essays he’s written: “Forsaking the Syrian Revolution: An Anti-Imperialist Handbook” and “Critical Theory in a Minor Key to Take Stock of the…
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Podcast: On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body (with Amro Ali)
This is a conversation with Amro Ali, author of the essay “On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin.” He is also co-president of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities, research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, and lecturer in sociology at the American University in Cairo (AUC). The Fire…
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Ukraine Series: 1. A View From Syria w/ Leila Al-Shami
In light of what’s been happening in Ukraine I am publishing a series of episodes that will, hopefully, bring in perspectives that are usually not platformed. The first episode is with British-Syrian writer and activist Leila Al-Shami. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher,…
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99/ Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies (With Marie Berry and Milli Lake)
This is a conversation with Marie E. Berry and Milli Lake, co-founders and principal investigators of the Women’s Rights After War Project. We primarily spoke about their article “on inconvenient findings” and their paper for Annual Reviews “women’s rights after war: on gender interventions and enduring hierarchies” Dr. Berry is Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School…
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59-60/(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare (with Emmi Bevensee)
This is a two-parts conversation with Emmi Bevensee. They’re a data journalist who utilizes a data storytelling approach to make complexity understandable. We spoke about so many things that I can only write them down as categories. Transcript available below. Part 1, out on January 30th (Patreon supporters) and January 31st (General Public). First section:…
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11. COVID-19, Travel and Building Solidarity
This is one of those episodes that are difficult to describe because the topic is one of those currently ‘frozen’ by the Covid-19 pandemic: travel.
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01/Hong Kong’s Existential Crisis (with JP)
This is a conversation with JP, a Hong Kong activist with Lausan, a left-wing and decolonial group based out of Hong Kong and its diaspora.