Join Diana Buttu as she engages in a captivating conversation with the renowned Palestinian political cartoonist and author, Mohammad Sabaaneh. Delve into the world of Sabaaneh's mesmerizing black-and-white illustrations that powerfully depict the daily oppression endured by Palestinians under Israeli occupation. In this episode, we explore the depths of Sab ... Show More
Jul 1
Voices from Gaza: Journalist Yara Eid on War, Media, and Memory
In today’s episode, we speak with Yara Eid, a young Palestinian journalist and human rights advocate from Gaza, currently based in London. Yara has worked with international organizations, including Amnesty International, and uses her platform to shed light on life under Israeli ... Show More
32m 53s
May 8
World Press Freedom Day: Palestinian Voices Under Fire
In Palestine, journalism is not just a profession, t’s an act of survival, resistance, and memory. This episode, released for World Press Freedom Day, explores the brutal reality Palestinian journalists face under Israeli occupation: targeted killings, censorship, and the erasure ... Show More
18m 24s
Mar 2024
A Moment of Becoming: Understanding Palestine Through Its Art | Yazid Anani
On this episode of This is Not a Watermelon podcast, we sit down with Yazid Anani to discuss Palestinian art, curation, and the role of artists and their work in redefining Palestine and the lexicon used to describe the Zionist project and Israeli occupation.Starting with the Qat ... Show More
56m 24s
Oct 2022
Salim Tamari et al., "Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (U California Press, 2022) is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hun ... Show More
1h 16m
Oct 2023
Understanding the Conflict in Occupied Palestine - History & Geopolitics w/ Rabab Abdulhadi & Ariel Salzmann
In this important and wide-ranging episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on two esteemed guests, Professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Ariel Salzmann, to discuss the conflict in occupied Palestine, the bombardment in Gaza, attempts to legitimize the Zionist project that is the so-calle ... Show More
1h 37m
Nov 2023
Violence, Nonviolence & the Palestinian National Movement | Wendy Pearlman
Peace processes, two-state vs one-state solutions and nonviolent protests. In conversation with Professor Wendy Pearlman from Northwestern University, we take two of her books as a foundation to examine grassroots activism historically and to consider a potential future “just” so ... Show More
1h 3m
May 2021
A World to Win: Free Palestine w/ Akram Salhab
This week, Grace talks to Palestinian activist Akram Salhab on his experience living and organising in Palestine, what’s going on in Sheikh Jarrah, and the heroic efforts of Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation – as well as what socialists around the world can do to support ... Show More
49m 20s
Sep 2021
Shay Hazkani, "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (Stanford UP, 2021)
In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab L ... Show More
1h 22m