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Fisk on his "From Beirut to Bosnia" documentary:

"Back in 1993, I made a 3 part documentary film for the Discovery Channel in the United States, and also for Channel 4 in Brita…

C.L.R. James and Studs Terkel discuss the Black Jacobins on WFMT Chicago(1970).

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Alina Sajed is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.  

Timothy Seidel is Assistant Professor in the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonit…

Albert Brent Chase is a member of the Diné (Navajo) nation and leader of the Pollen Trail Dancers. 

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David Puckett is a human being currently incarcerated by the US state. Through his pen pal, he passes a long a message about life in the land of the free.

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Shervin Malekzadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University where he is completing a book manuscript on post-revolutionary schooling in Iran from the perspective of ordinary families a…

Hussein Kesvani is UK/Europe editor with Mel Magazine. He is the author of Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims.

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I recently went on the podcast Trashfuture and spoke about the Iran invasion plans floated by the B-team. I hope you enjoy the short extract! The entire episode is available from Trashfuture's main f…

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Neda Maghbouleh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is Principal Investigator and lead researcher of the RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team.

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Hamdi Ulukaya is the CEO of Chobani.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb is author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport (Fernwood Publishing) and co-author of Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sports (with Gamal Abdel-She…

Tamara Nassar is an assistant editor at The Electronic Intifada 

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Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni Journalist, filmmaker, and founding  Director of Yemen Alaan (Yemen Now) in Sanaa.

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Ali Latifi is a journalist based in Kabul.

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Unlocked from behind the paywall! A conversation with my friend and comrade Nasser Mufti on the lingering questions of nationalism. 

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