Tag: Syria
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Podcast: Why I stopped writing about Syria (With Asser Khattab)
This is a conversation with Asser Khattab, a Syrian writer who has reported on Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq for various international news outlets. We spoke about his essay for New Lines Magazine, “why I stopped writing about Syria.” This is episode 97 of The Fire These Times podcast. Topics Discussed: How Asser started writing about…
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Podcast: The Arab Spring Diaspora Against Transnational Repression (With Dana Moss)
This is a conversation with Dana Moss, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and the author of the book “The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes.” This is episode 96 of The Fire These Times podcast. Topics Discussed: How Yemeni, Libyan and Syrian diasporas in the US and UK…
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Podcast: Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights (with Shareah Taleghani)
This is a conversation with Shareah Taleghani, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Arabic at Queens College at the City University of New York and the author of the book “Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights” published by Syracuse University Press. This is episode 93 of The Fire These Times…
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38. My Father and Syria’s Forcibly Disappeared (With Wafa Mustafa)
This is a conversation with Wafa Mustafa, a Berlin-based Syrian journalist. We spoke about her father, Ali Mustafa, who was forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime on July 2nd 2013. Wafa highlights the fact that those who are forcibly disappeared are often depoliticized and coated in ‘humanitarian’ language. We spoke about how she participated in…
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Podcast: Disinformation, Russia and Syrian-Ukrainian Solidarity w/ Peter Pomerantsev
I spoke with Peter Pomerantsev about disinformation in the age of social media and what to do about it.
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28. Who Owns This World? Grief, Borders and Music (with Yousef Kekhia)
A conversation with Yousef Kekhia about music, grief, borders and healing.
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26. The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On
In-depth conversation with Ziad Majed about Samir Kassir 15 years after his assassination.
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24. Bellingcat: Fact-Checking in a Post-Truth World
This is a conversation with Eliot Higgins, founder and executive director of Bellingcat, an online open-source investigation collective. Bellingcat rose to prominence over its team’s investigation of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July of 2014 by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, which killed all 298 passengers on board. The evidence, which linked…
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10. Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference
I spoke to Kareem Shaheen about the importance of journalism given the lack of justice and accountability in Syria, the Middle East and beyond.
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Podcast: Denying Genocide, from Halabja to Ghouta
This is a conversation with Sabrîna Azad, a writer who published a moving piece in which she looked at how deniers of Assad’s war crimes in Syria were evoking painful memories for survivors of Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaigns against Kurds.