Tag: Revolution
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23. Syria, Performativity, and Being Rooted in the Local
This is a conversation with Shiyam Galyon. She’s a Syrian-American feminist writer who currently leads communications at War Resisters League, the oldest secular antiwar organization in the United States. Shiyam has been thinking a lot about topics that I felt were important for us to discuss further for a wider audience. She’s able to skillfully…
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22. Building Mutual Aid in Lebanon
This is a conversation with Ayman Makarem. He’s a Lebanon-based writer and filmmaker who recently wrote essays on mutual aid in Lebanon for The Public Source. Beyond Charity: Our Critical Need for Mutual Aid – Part 1 Beyond Charity: Our Critical Need for Mutual Aid – Part 2 One of the themes of The Fire…
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12. Independent Media Versus the Lebanese Oligarchy
How does the Lebanese oligarchy work and how can independent media help defeat it?
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08. Lebanon’s October Uprising, Six Months Later
This is a conversation with Lebanese journalist Timour Azhari of Al Jazeera (previously The Daily Star) about the legacy of the October 17 uprising six months since it began. We spoke about the current state of Lebanese politics, the government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis and its impact on the country’s most vulnerable groups as…
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06. Lebanon’s October 17 Revolution/ A Country in Fragments
The first in a series of episodes exploring Lebanon’s October 17th Revolution in its post-war context.
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4. Against the Logic of the Guillotine
I spoke with Crimethinc about the ‘logic of the guillotine’, how it is used in online left-wing meme culture and why we need to have a better logic than that of the guillotine if we truly believe in liberatory politics.