Radio Intifada by SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Region Radio

In this week’s one-hour show, co-host David Lloyd speaks with our regular commentator, SWANA Collective's Hamoud Salhi about developments in the SWANA Region, especially in the Gulf, with the ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran continuing to remain ambiguous and volatile. David and Hamoud also discuss the upcoming elections in Algeria and the success of Northern African footbal...

In this episode, we begin by discussing President Trump’s latest proclamation of an agreement with Iran, a statement that may hold beyond the next tweet storm, since Iran has suggested for once that the two sides have at least agreed to sign a “memorandum of understanding.” But with Israel doing its best to sabotage any peace accord, the outlook remains uncertain. David Lloyd speaks with Radio Int...

This week, on Radio Intifada, we consider what sovereignty means beyond the borders communities are relegated to, from Iran to the Himalayas. We’re bringing you a conversation between a Kurdish filmmaker and an Ahwazi human rights researcher. Together, we’ll consider what sovereignty and anti-imperialism means for ethnic minorities in Iran as the US-Israel war against the country goes into its 4th...

In this episode, we mark the 78th year of the Palestinian Nakba. A story often told through the displacement of nearly 750,000 Palestinians; a story often told through the dispossession of Palestinian land and people. But, it is also a story told through the steadfast sumud of a people who for over 78 years have resisted by any and every means the condition of a settler colonial project– including...

Radio Intifada previews the Saturday, May 9th event Sumud: A celebration of Palestinian Culture, Resistance, and Solidarity. In remembrance of the 78th year of the Palestinian Nakba, @kpfk is convening journalists, labor leaders, entertainment organizers, educators, filmmakers, and faith communities for an afternoon and evening in Los Angeles. On this Radio Intifada special we hear from Saturday’s...

In this episode, we discuss Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi's recent book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation , with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. We ask what it means to resist under colonial oppression, and how we can understand Palestinians’ unrelenting refusal to submit the colonial order. 

April is Genocide Remembrance Month and this week we ask, how do we remember victims of genocide? We speak with British-Tamil poet Shash Trevett whose book, The Naming of Names honors the lives of Tamil people killed throughout the Sri Lankan genocide.  But first, Lebanon and Israel will meet this week for a second round of direct talks. Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem rejected the negotiations last w...

This Radio Intifada show focuses on the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression on Iran.  Just days before recording, Donald Trump, in addition to threatening to wipe out an entire civilization, made promises to destroy Iran’s infrastructure, starting with its bridges and power plants.  This announcement came today, Tuesday evening, April 7—the day we are recording this show.  In what could only be describ...

As we near 900 days since the start of the latest genocide in Gaza, US and Isreali missiles continue to fall on Iran and Lebanon. As death counts rise, the war’s economic fallout is being felt acutely across the globe, as the Strait of Hormuz is vital to not just the shipment of oil, but the global supply chain as a whole. Meanwhile, Middle East Eye reported earlier this month that an adviser to t...

Join us for our discussion of the current Israeli war on Lebanon with Professor Munira Khayyat in West Beirut. As we bring this show to you, the US Israeli war on Iran continues with unrelenting destruction, and has already become a regional war. As we record, reports of Israel’s bombings of civilian buildings in central Beirut are coming in, with 12 documented deaths and over 40 wounded. The war...

One week ago, we woke up to the news that the United States and Israel had attacked Iran in a major military operation. The bloodshed of day one of US-Israeli military attacks included an elementary school for girls in the southern city of Minab, as well as the assasination of Ayatollah Khamenei. While Iran has been responding by targeting Israel and US military bases across the Gulf, people from...

In this episode, we’re joined by Zafeer Butt and Sidra Khawaja, director and executive producer of  Bakarwals: The Shepherds of Kashmir, a recent documentary produced by Kashmir Creatives Collective, which both our guests are also members of. In addition to his work with Kashmir Creatives Collective, Zafeer Butt is a multidisciplinary Kashmiri visual artist & filmmaker. He has a bachelor’s deg...

In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Lara Sheehi the arguments of her latest book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures , which will be released by Pluto Press in May 2026. It goes without saying that we are living in unprecedented times. We continue to see the effects of the u.s. Empire-expanding war machine against our siblings in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen....

Join us for our conversation with Nisreen Jaradat of the No Azure for Apartheid Campaign  that seeks to end  Microsoft’s complicity  with Israeli genocide and apartheid. In what is dubbed the world’s first AI-assisted, algorithmic genocide, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)—or, more accurately, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)—have been using AI systems such as the Gospel and Lavender to acceler...

In this moment as we witness the rise and repression of the global intifada and the role of youth in liberation movements across the world, today, we are returning to Tahrir Square and the youth of the Egyptian revolution to learn from their lessons. The Egyptian revolution of 2011, emerges as a unique moment in mobilizing Egypt's youth in a country with a rich tradition in social movement and...

In this episode, we're joined by Aishah Masood from Defence of Human Rights, an organization that advocates for victims of enforced disappearances in Pakistan, to discuss enforced disappearances and the conditions experienced by people detained in prisons in Pakistan.  Defence of Human Rights and Public Service trust, or DHR Pakistan for short, is an independent non-governmental, non-profit or...

In this episode, we're joined by co-founder of Poets for Palestine, Mohammed Ahmad, to talk about the role of poetry in the Palestinian liberation movement. Mohammed Ahmad is a Palestinian-American poet residing in Los Angeles. He holds a Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing, with an emphasis in poetry, from the University of Denver. Beyond the page, Ahmad also works as an independe...

Over the past 26 months of Israel’s still ongoing genocide in Gaza, we have covered the exceptional degree of repression on universities directed at Palestine solidarity activists. National media attention has largely focused on the violent actions taken by campus security forces against student protest encampments and on high profile cases like the arrest and detention of US green-card holder and...

In this episode, as we have done for many years now, we honor the original stewards of this land, its defenders and protectors. We acknowledge first nations as the original custodians of this land, honor their elders past and present, and recognize that the land upon which we are guests, here in southern California, is unceded or occupied. The settler state’s annual “celebration” of what we call T...

In this episode, we host Pakistani filmmaker Jawad Sharif to discuss his most recent film, Moklani. Winner of the 2025 Jackson Wild Global Voices prize, the documentary follows the lives of the Mohanas, an Indigenous community that has lived off of Manchar Lake in Sindh, Pakistan for generations. Through the swiftly changing lives of the Mohanas, Sharif explores the deep sense of loss that comes w...

Today, on October 5, 2025, it’s been two years since the ethnic cleansing of the Artsakh population. On September 2023, after nine months of blockade that resulted in shortage of food, medicine and essential supplies, Azerbaijan launched a military offensive against the autonomous enclave of Artsakh. The military action lasted 24 hours. At the end, the indigenous Armenians of Artsakh surrendered....

We preview the upcoming  Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine  in Detroit next weekend, August 29-31, with two of the conference organizers, Tara Alami & Rama Ali Kased.     But first, two important articles have appeared, in  Counterpunch  and  Current Afairs  respectively, which have addressed the dismal question as to the actual death toll to date of Israel’s continuing & unc...

In this episode, we discuss the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Sudan, which has been called the worse humanitarian crisis of all. Our guest is Khalid Mustafa Medani. Professor Medani is Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies, Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, and Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill University. His research focuses on globalizati...

In this episode, we have a conversation about Christian Zionism and its impact on Zionism, Israel, and the support of Western powers for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the annexation of historic Palestine to the apartheid state. Over the past month Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has continued to intensify even as it drops from the headlines of most of the mainstream or state-sanctioned media. La...