"Many of us can't think about anything but Palestine" w/ Tariq Ali
The brothers welcome distinguished writer, novelist, and intellectual of the New Left Review Tariq Ali to Makdisi Street. They discuss the similarities and differences between the anti-Vietnam war dem...
18 Aug 20241h 34min
"Calm before the storm"
The brothers gather in the garden of their family home in the mountains of Lebanon to discuss recent Israeli escalations and the possible consequences from Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere, following the I...
5 Aug 202436min
"Camp David is a primordial document for the Egyptian political apparatus" w/ Lina Attalah
The brothers welcome journalist Lina Attalah (@linaattalah), the co-founder and chief editor of MadaMasr, an independent online Egyptian newspaper. They discuss the current situation in Egypt, politic...
18 Juli 20241h 27min
"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.2)
The second half of the conversation between the brothers and historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti (@abedtakriti). In this part, they do a deep dive into the Oslo negotiations, the effect of the Camp David A...
11 Juli 20241h 4min
(Preview) "98% of the UN has been condemning what Israel has done."
[Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of Makdisi Street. You can listen to the entire episode by subscribing to the Patreon for as low as $5 a month and get access to other g...
9 Juli 202419min
"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.1)
The brothers welcome historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti (@abedtakriti), the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman 1965-1976 (2016), "Before BDS: Lineages of Boycott in Pa...
26 Juni 20241h 12min
"Universities are complicit in Palestinian unfreedom" w/ Maya Wind
The brothers welcome Maya Wind, the author of Towers of Ivory and Steel, a searing critique of the Israeli academic establishment's complicity in the regime of apartheid and genocide. They discuss th...
19 Juni 20241h 32min
Debunking Zionist Myths #1
The brothers take on some of the most popular and entirely mendacious Zionist talking points and debunk them. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Links mentioned in the episode Relevant links A...
11 Juni 20241h 12min
