"Israel is becoming a burden to those who support it" w/ Mouin Rabbani
The brothers welcome the political analyst Mouin Rabbani (@MouinRabbani) to the show to discuss the broader implications of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza, the loss of Israeli military credibilit...
30 Maj 20241h 34min
"A Special Relationship" w/ Stephen Walt
The brothers welcome Professor Stephen Walt to the show to discuss US foreign policy in the Middle East, the role of the Israel lobby in influencing US decision-making, and how all these dynamics may ...
20 Maj 20241h 50min
"The Gulf, the Arab metropoles and shifting patterns of power" w/ Elham Fakhro
The brothers welcome Elham Fakhro to the show to discuss the shifting patterns of relations between the states of the Arab Gulf and the established metropoles of the Arab world, the interplay of educa...
8 Maj 20241h 23min
"The process of liberation is irresistible and irreversible" w/ Vijay Prashad
The brothers welcome historian and journalist Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) to the show to discuss the emergence of Palestine as the keystone struggle of the Global South, the importance of the PLO, t...
1 Maj 20241h 43min
"Learning how to be colonialists" w/ Rashid Khalidi
The brothers welcome the historian Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University to the show to discuss the history of the Palestinian people's struggle against the Zionist project in Palestine, the colonial ...
24 Apr 20241h 47min
(Preview) "Distraction and Denial"
[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...
17 Apr 202419min
"Famine is never a natural occurrence" w/ Michael Fakhri
The brothers welcome to the show Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, to discuss the ongoing starvation war against Gaza and how...
8 Apr 20241h 25min
"Stadiums are completely ungovernable spaces, spaces of liberation" w/ Tony Karon and Sean Jacobs
The brothers welcome Tony Karon (@TonyKaron) and Sean Jacobs (@africasacountry) to the show to discuss their experience of the politics of sport in their native South Africa, the lessons that the coun...
29 Mars 20241h 33min
