The Fire These Times

This is a conversation with Anna Malaika Tubbs, author of the book " The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation ." Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi. Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes What we talked about: The lives of Berdis Baldwin, Louise Little...

Initially published in June 2020, I'm re-sharing this episode with Peter Pomerantsev with y'all because of what's been happening in Ukraine lately. I'm preparing a new episode on Ukraine but it's taking a bit of time because I want to make sure I'm well-read enough to be an engaging host.  Old link: https://thefirethisti.me/2020/06/24/31-disinformation-post-truth-and-what-to-do-about-them/ Su...

This is a conversation with Marie E. Berry and Milli Lake, co-founders and principal investigators of the  Women’s Rights After War Project . We primarily spoke about their article " on inconvenient findings " and their paper for Annual Reviews " women's rights after war: on gender interventions and enduring hierarchies " Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi. Me S...

This is a crossover episode with New Lines Podcast on the topic of 'postwar' Lebanon. A big thank you to New Lines’ Faisal Al Yafai and Lydia Wilson for hosting this conversation.   Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi. Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes

This is a conversation with Nat Muller , an independent curator, writer and academic living between the UK and Amsterdam.  Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi. Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes She is an expert in contemporary art from the Middle East and curated the Danish pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennal...

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. " Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi. Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes Topics Discu...

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 ." Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: TheFireThisTi. Me Substack newsletter: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com/ Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes Topics Discussed: How Yemeni, L...

This is a conversation with Shui-yin Sharon Yam (her 2nd time on the podcast) largely around a paper that she wrote called "Complicating Acts of Advocacy: Tactics in the Birthing Room". She is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, and a faculty affiliate of Gender and Women's Studies and the Center for Equality and Social Justice at the University of Kentucky. She is one o...

This is a conversation with speculative fiction writer and  sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson. His stories have appeared  in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT  Technology Review, Grist, Little Blue Marble, The New Accelerator,  StarShipSofa and more, as well as various books and anthologies. His  fiction has been nominated for the Push...

Hey everyone, As I'm taking a bit of a break I'm sharing with you the episode I did on the podcast "It Could Happen Here Daily with Robert Evans" about my article for Lausan.hk entitled " The periphery has no time for binaries ".  Make sure to check out It Could Happen Here :) See you all in January!  To support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: thefirethisti.me

As I'm taking a wee break, here's an interview I gave on the Mangal Media podcast about my article of the same name.  You can read it here: https://www.mangalmedia.net/english/solarpunk-climate-change-and-the-new-thinkable Mangal Media is a global collective of writers, artists, journalists and scholars from the so-called “periphery” who are concerned about reclaiming their own narratives. Ch...

As I'm taking a bit of a break, I thought I'd share with you a recording published by the Sara Jeva Collective . Listen to those who became victims of illegal pushbacks in Croatia. The reports deal with flight, racism and policeviolence against migrants and refugees. Links: https://twitter.com/JevaSara/status/1446739260112097282 https://reportssarajevo.blackblogs.org/ Related episodes on The Fire...

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. Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: TheFireThisTi. Me Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes Topics Di...

This is a conversation with Brazilian researchers Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon about their paper for Global Information Society Watch, " Big tech goes green(washing): Feminist lenses to unveil new tools in the master’s houses ." Extended bio below. The research by Nobrega and Varon is part of a report launched by the Association for Progressive Communications. You can find the full report here ....

This is a conversation with Jefim Vogel of the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, and Julia Steinberger of the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne, about a paper they worked on entitled " socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning ." Julia is also an author o...

This is a conversation with Paz Peña, a Chile-based independent consultant and activist, who recently published a paper entitled “ Bigger, more, better, faster: The ecological paradox of digital economies ” for Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch). The research by Paz Peña is part of a report launched by the Association for Progressive Communications. You can find the full report here...

This is a conversation with Mia Wong , a writer and researcher with Cool Zone Media whose essay " When communists crushed the international workers’ movement " for Lausan was the subject of this conversation. Get early access + more perks on Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: The Tiananmen massacr...

This is a conversation with Susan A. Crane , author of the book “ Nothing Happened: A History “ Get early access + more perks on Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: How do people think of the past? What does Nothing even mean? Four expressions of historical consciousness: 1- Nothing Happened 2- Not...

This is a conversation with Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer who helped create the ‘ This Is Not an Atlas ‘ book for Kollectiv Orangotango, which is available as a free PDF . Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: What is ‘This is Not an Atlas’? What traditional cartogr...

This is a conversation with Bram Büscher around the topics discussed in his book ‘ The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism, in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism ‘ Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: Meaning of ‘post-truth’ and platform capitali...

This is a special episode in which I just read the names of those who died due to the Beirut port explosion on August 4th 2020. Resources: http://beirut607.org/ http://thepublicsource.org/ https://armlebanon.org/ #BeirutExplosion 

This is a special episode, initially recorded and released on August 7th 2020 with Lina Mounzer.  I'm re-releasing it as it was.  Twitter thread with reflections on this day https://twitter.com/joeyayoub/status/1422610135172714498  #BeirutExplosion #BeirutBlast

This is a conversation with Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari, repeat guests on the podcast, about the legacy of the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915–1918) and its legacy today. Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed + Resources: What was the Great Famine? Causes and Co...

This is a conversation with Naji Bakhti , author of the novel Between Beirut and the Moon (2020), published by Influx Press. He is also Project Manager at SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom at the Samir Kassir Foundation . Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discusse...

This is a conversation with Tareq Baconi , author of the book " Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance " published in 2018. Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. List of topics discussed: How Hamas is often talked about Contextualising Hamas in recent and...